Fashion & Textiles Books

Selection of publications on historic and contemporary fashion, textiles, and jewelry design.

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Rectangular book cover featuring a photograph of three fashion models. The two on the right wear oversized garments and headpieces with dramatic makeup while the model on the left wears graphic black-and-white fabric and sunglasses. Overlaid in white is the text "Willi Smith: Street Couture."

Willi Smith: Street Couture

Book cover featuring a gridded collage, set at an angle, of floral patterns, framing a black and white photo of a woman in a sun hat blowing a kiss to camera. An opaque pink rectangle with white title text is overlaid at center.

Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Artist Behind an Iconic American Fashion Brand, 1962-1985

Made by Rain Book; black cover with a few small splashes of white and smaller off-white booklet layered over, with the title in blue [traveling concept #1 booklet]

Made by Rain Book

White book cover gridded with circles showing various textile design patterns from history and title information in the middle

Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns Organized by Motif, Style, Color, Layout, and Period

Pink book cover with white borders. "Making Design" in white san serif font on thick spine and "210,000" and "1145" on front cover

Making Design Limited Edition

Magazine cover with woven pieces of blue fabric with fraying edges. Magazine title in red and white font with issue title in jumbled font below

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 1

Dark blue book cover with photograph of a figure wearing ornately patterned and embroidered dress and headcovering. Title overlaid in white modern font

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 3

Gift wrap book cover with numerous fashion illustrations from the 1920s on a cream colored background and a title information in a horizontal band across the middle with art deco font

1920s Fashion Gift and Creative Paper Book

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 2

Book cover showing gold and silver metalwork of a classical figure with art deco ornamentation. Title vertically rotated in sans serf font in navy blue field to the left

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s

Book cover featuring a textured orange colored background, the name of the author of the book in a royal blue.

Duro Olowu: Seeing

White book cover covered in words in thick gold letters with the title in one of the rows in black. A red white and black sneaker is shown in the center

Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture

Small book cover featuring a street-style photograph of a woman wearing stilettos, ripped jeans, a long coat with brocade detail, and a floral hijab. A white line border frames her. Text overlaid reads: Modest Street Fashion Vol. 1.

Modest Street Fashion

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 4

Fashion Tribes book cover featuring a photograph of three people in unique outfits and hats in front of barbed wire and a brick wall.

Fashion Tribes: Global Street Style

Cover of The Complete Pattern Directory featuring a floral print illustration that includes various fruits and birds throughout. The illustration is set against a navy backdrop.

The Complete Pattern Directory: 1500 Designs from All Ages and Cultures

Light gray book cover with photograph in bottom left showing a light green jewelry piece. Title information printed above in small serif font.

Jewelry of Ideas: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection

Cover image with detail of fabric showing floral patterns in diagonal lines primarily in pink and blue with "Batik" title in bold red.

Batik: Traditional Textiles of Indonesia

Target: 20 Years of Design for All

Salmon book cover with light pink illustrated title over a blue fabric swatch pierced by a sky blue needle trailing yellow thread

Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes

Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking

Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking

Book cover with a vibrant orange and magenta floral pattern, white and yellow san serif title at top and a navy spine

A Colorful Life: Gere Kavanaugh, Designer

Book cover with abstractly painted shapes in greens, yellows, and pinks. Title in center with pink and green outlined letters

Doris Betz: Jewellery and Drawing

Black book cover with translucent gray arrows layered and pointing in all directions with four arrows that are colorful pointing to the center

Contemporary Jewellery in Context

Book cover featuring a magnified detail of an embroidered textile. Title in black serif letters in white field to the left

Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe

Book cover featuring a vibrant yellow background and 4 light grey colored lines that create two small grids. overlayering the background are twelve different black and yellow images of textiles patterns, clothing, and people wearing the clothing. The book title is centered at the top and continued at the bottom center of the book.

Unfolding Fashion Tech: Pioneers of Bright Futures

Book cover featuring the illusion of a canvas wrapping with a thin rope 'tied around' it. The title in a vibrant red, hand written font style, placed at the top center of the cover.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Book cover features a fold of several unusual textiles over the natural linen background. The total and subtitles are visible on the top right.

Threads around the World: From Arabian Weaving to Batik in Zimbabwe

A bright blue book cover with a silhouette of a woman in a ball gown placed at the center. There is text at the top left of the cover that reads 'THE FASHION BOOK'. The word FASHION as well as the silhouette of the woman are both a very bright blue.

The Fashion Book

Connecting Afro Futures book cover with bold text against a pale, gray-blue background, with a black line illustration of a person with a sculptural hair style at the bottom of the page.

Connecting Afro Futures: Fashion x Hair x Design

Dark red book cover featuring a mustard-colored 17th century suit and accessories with descriptions pointing to different parts of the costume

How to Read a Suit: A Guide to Changing Men's Fasion from the 17th to the 20th Century

Red book cover with title in sans serif black letters at top right

Universal Materiality: Wearable Interaction Design and Computer Aided Process for Accessible Wearable Solutions

Book cover with seemingly underwater scene with tentacles encroaching into the frame over a soccer ball

David Bielander: Twenty Years

Book cover with central white band with title in red and blue sans serf letters. White and blue polka dotted textile at top of cover and red and white floral textile at bottom

Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas

Indigo: The Color that Changed the World cover in indigo blue with white lace dye detailing at the top and bottom of the cover. Indigo is printed in all caps in white and is centrally located on the cover. The Color that Changed the World is printed in smaller capitalized text underneath.

Indigo: The Color that Changed the World

Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide

Book cover features a vintage black and white portrait of a woman in a black top and a headpiece decorated with metallic sequins. Yellow, orange, and red thread embroidery highlights her face with a geometric pattern. The book title is placed at the bottom of the cover in two lines.

From Thread to Needle: Contemporary Embroidery Art

Light blue book cover with a voluminous yellow dress surrounded by schematic notes

How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century

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