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• The life and work of Ann Lowe : rediscovering "society's best kept secret" / Margaret Powell
• Ann Lowe : American couturier / Elizabeth Way
• Preserving Ann Lowe's gowns : conservation research and treatment / Laura Mina, Katherine Sahmel and Heather Hodge
• Reproducing Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress / Katya Roelse
• The legacy of Ann Lowe / Elizabeth Way.

"The definitive illustrated volume on the work and life of Ann Lowe, a consummate couturier who designed lavish evening and bridal gowns for members of America's social registry, a Black woman working hard behind the scenes whose important legacy has remained underappreciated-until now"-- Provided by publisher.

• School daze
• Do the right thing: the hottest day
• My period work
• From the comedic to the superhero
• Legendary actors
• Black Panther: Motherland
• Coming 2 America
• Wakanda forever

"Career-spanning book by the Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter"-- Provided by publisher

• Theoretical framework
• Fashion in the academy
• Fashion's democratisation
• Collaboration and experimentation between fashion and art
• Fashion as concept
• Virgil Abloh's democratic fashion practice
• Aitor Throup's divergent design
• Iris Van Herpen's "new couture"
• Eckhaus Latta's community-led brand.

• Virginia Woolf
• The Dreadnaught Hoax and the visual language of power
• Vanessa Bell
• Measuring wardrobes, or, where did they put all their stuff?
• Duncan Grant
• The Apostles, and conversations about style
• E. M. Forster
• Two Stracheys and Carrington, or, the veil of clothing
• John Maynard Keynes
• What the Bloomsbury servants wore
• Lady Ottoline Morell
• Bloomsbury, fashion, philosophy.

In Bring No Clothes, acclaimed fashion writer Charlie Porter brings us face to face with six members of the Bloomsbury Group, the collective of artists and thinkers who were in the vanguard of a social and sartorial revolution. Each of them offers fresh insight into the constraints and possibilities of fashion today: from the stifling repression of E. M. Forster's top buttons to the creativity of Vanessa Bell's wayward hems; from the sheer pleasure of Ottoline Morrell's lavish dresses to the clashing self-consciousness of Virginia Woolf's orange stockings. As Porter carefully unpicks what they wore and how they wore it, we see how clothing can be a means of artistic, intellectual and sexual liberation, or, conversely, a tool for patriarchal control. Travelling through libraries, archives, attics and studios, Porter uncovers fresh evidence about his subjects, revealing them in a thrillingly intimate, vivid new light. And, as he is inspired to begin making his own clothing, his perspective on fashion - and on life - starts to change. In the end, he shows, we should all 'bring no clothes,' embracing a new philosophy of living: one which activates the connections between the way we dress and the way we think, act and love -- Publisher.

Learn to create personalized graduation announcements, congratulations, and additional keepsakes for education-related accomplishments with Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation—with mix-and-match design elements and more than 20 patterns.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 From Food Waste to Circular Materials for Design: Experimenting with Matter from Unconventional Origins
• 2 Multimorphic Textiles: Prototyping Sustainability and Circular Systems
• 3 Hands-on/hands-off: On Proximities to Materials and Systems in Design Research
• 4 Sensory Prosthetics: Materials-led and User-centred Research for More Inclusive Prosthetic Limbs

• 5 Decolonising Materials: The Story of Govindgarh Village
• 6 NTU X Emmanuel House: Developing a Responsible Design Practice with Fashion Students and Service Users
• 7 Sewing Box for the Future: Facilitating Participatory Fashion Experiences to Influence Change
• 8 Re-creation and Recreation: Playful Sustainable Fashion Textile Projects with School Children
• 9 Fashion Activism and Design for Social Change
• The Making for Change: Waltham Forest Project
• 10 Decolonising Design Perspectives: Steps Towards More Inclusive Circular Economies

• 11 Making for Our Time: A Journey told through the Dress as Catalyst for Change
• Index

"A clear, concise introduction to the role of sociology in fashion studies. Fashion-ology traces the systems, theories and theorists that define the fashion industry's recent past, contemporary practice and possible futures"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Beauty is a beast
• The birth of K-beauty
• Hallyu has no borders
• Skinfirst
• Lookism
• Selfie Surveillance
• The improvement quarter
• The new modern
• Free size isn't free
• Escape the corset
• Child's play
• Of marketing and men
• The wisdom of Ajummas
• Conclusion

"An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South Korea's booming "K-beauty" industry and the culture it promotes"-- Provided by publisher

• The Red Group tailors and the Zhongshan suit
• Notions and sewing tools
• Making zhifu
• Sewing like a girl
• Rationing
• The time of the sewing machine
• Pattern books I : origins, authors, readers
• Pattern books II : how to take a measurement
• What should Chinese women wear?

"The founding of the PRC in 1949 resulted in the transformation of clothing in China. This pioneering history of clothing production in the years 1949-76 focuses on what clothes were made, how, and by whom. Richly illustrated and engagingly written, it offers new insights into how the land of the blue gown became the land of the Mao suit"-- Provided by publisher.

• The Red Group tailors and the Zhongshan suit
• Notions and sewing tools
• Making zhifu
• Sewing like a girl
• Rationing
• The time of the sewing machine
• Pattern books I : origins, authors, readers
• Pattern books II : how to take a measurement
• What should Chinese women wear?

"The founding of the PRC in 1949 resulted in the transformation of clothing in China. This pioneering history of clothing production in the years 1949-76 focuses on what clothes were made, how, and by whom. Richly illustrated and engagingly written, it offers new insights into how the land of the blue gown became the land of the Mao suit"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• A dreamless childhood (1867-1884)
• A passion for hats
• Early successes
• The Rising Star of Haute Couture
• The Triumphant Decade (1920-1929)
• Constantly Reinventing Fashion (1930-1939)
• Facing adversity (1940-1946)
• Jeanne Lanvin's Legacy
• Acknowledgements
• Picture credits.

Jeanne Lanvin was ahead of her time. The French fashion visionary and resourceful businesswoman from a poor background not only created the first designer fashion line for children - this was colourful and full of lightness at a time when children were still dressed like adults - the first tailored men's collection and the first unisex eau de toilette, she also founded the longest-running fashion company in the world. At times, this employed over 1000 people and included women's, children's and men's fashion, accessories, fragrances, furnishing textiles and decorative objects, and even its own paint factory. The self-taught Lanvin started out as a milliner with her own boutique and managed to become one of the greatest fashion designers of the 20th century with creative energy and inventiveness. She created Art Deco costumes for theatre and film productions, developed the legendary perfume Arpège and a special Lanvin blue based on the shade Fra Angelico blue. Jeanne Lanvin - Fashion Pioneer is dedicated to the extraordinary life and work of this exceptional designer in this richly illustrated coffee table book.

• One. A line of beauty / Andrew Bolton
• Two. Lines [I-X]
• Feminine/Masculine
• Romantic/Military
• Rococo/Classical
• Historical/Futuristic
• Ornamental/Structural
• Canonical/Countercultural
• Artisinal/Mechanical
• Floral/Geometric
• Figurative/Abstract
• Satirical
• Three. Director's foreword
• Sponsor's statements
• The International Woolmark Prize, 1954
• Premières d'atelier / Interviews by Loïc Prigent: Anita Briey and Nicole Lefort, Chloé ; Stefania D'Alfonso, Fendi ; Olivia Douchez and Jacqueline Mercier, Chanel ; Anita Briey, Karl Lagerfeld
• Reflections / Anna Wintour, Patrick Hourcade, Amanda Harlech, Tadao Ando
• Inspirations
• Acknowledgments
• Selected bibliography
• Credits

"This investigation into Karl Lagerfeld's (1933-2019) artistry explores his extraordinary sixty-five-year career, from the designs for Chlǒ and Fendi in the 1960s and 1970s to his celebrated leadership in the 1980s and beyond at Chanel and his own label. Inspired by the "line of beauty" theorized by eighteenth-century English painter William Hogarth, this dazzling publication pursues the straight and serpentine "lines" and their intersections in Lagerfeld's work as a means of understanding his unique creative process." --The Met Store website

Memories of clothing feature prominently in auto/biographies, yet traditionally they have not been subjected to the same level of academic scrutiny as other sources. Memories of Dress redresses this imbalance by bringing auto/biographical memories to the centre of a new methodology for understanding fashion history, material culture, and other disciplines. Presenting a comprehensive overview of theoretical and practice-based approaches, the book invites readers to explore the relations between clothing and memory through diverse examples ranging from oral histories of Madchester men and Hungarian socialist sewing, to a quilt-making autoethnography into the complexities of American racial heritage and imagined memories within museum collections. Chapters by leading and emerging experts consider the ways in which dress is remembered and the ways that memories and nostalgia in turn influence everyday dress practices, unpicking the meanings and motivations--both collective and public, personal and private--behind the clothes we wear in different times, places and life stages; and the impact of class, gender, ethnicity, and disability on material identities. Uniquely weaving personal recollection with theory, this multidisciplinary book offers new ways of understanding clothing, material culture, and memory

• Introduction: Designs on Mondrian
• Saint Laurent, Mondrian and the Dialogue with Art
• What is-and was-a Mondrian Dress?
• Originality and Reproduction in the Marketplace and the Press
• Ready-to-Wear and Pop Art
• Postscript: Strategies of Musealization.

"An illustrated scholarly history of the relationship between fashion and art, with a particular focus on Yves Saint Laurent's use of Mondrian's paintings in his designs"-- Provided by publisher.

"Rick Owens remains one of the most daring and influential fashion designers working today. This new book of photographs describes an exceptionally fertile and transformational period in his career, one that saw him experiment with new shapes, the application of new materials, and an unprecedented use of color"--Provided by publisher.

• What Do Our Clothes Really Mean?
• Valerie Steele on Fashion as Product
• Andre Walker on Fashion and Identity
• Claire Wilcox on Fashion and Memory
• The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas
• Charlie Casely-Hayford
• John Matheson-McQueen Vault
• Sandy Powell
• Stephen Jones
• Carla Sozzani
• Winn Austin
• Carmen Haid
• Susanne Bartsch
• Karlo Steel
• Karim Rashid
• Steven Philip
• Desmond is Amazing.

Mark C. O'Flaherty asks 14 individuals who work with or use clothes in a unique way: how has fashion created something significant in your life? Through fascinating conversations, and photoshoots of their private collections, in New York, London and Milan, he constructs a portrait of each person through their intimate relationships with fashion, featuring The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas, Charlie Casely-Hayford, John Matheson (McQueen Vault), Sandy Powell, Stephen Jones, Carla Sozzani, Winn Austin, Carmen Haid, Susanne Bartsch, Karlo Steel, Karim Rashid, Steven Philip, and Desmond is Amazing. How have these people used fashion as a vessel for memory or identity to develop their own narratives, and what does our relationship with clothing say about its changing nature as a commodity? With a foreword by influential fashion tastemaker Amanda Harlech, and opening conversations with three of fashion's most respected scholars, Valerie Steele, Andre Walker and Claire Wilcox, Narrative Thread is an eye-opening resource for our understanding of fashion's past and present - and its continuing importance in our lives. -- Back cover