Fashion & Textiles Books

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

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Mossy green book cover with neon green, debossed title text, and a small b&w photograph of a weaving being made on a loom.

A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes

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

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

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

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

Black book cover with lyrical, folk-art-inspired illustration in red, white, and blue hues, of a child and a woman in conversation. Title text in blue, hand-drawn script above.

Woven of the World

Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking

Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 3

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

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

Orange book cover with large white title text cropped off at the right edge. Small, black subtitle text below.

A Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965: Craftspeople, Designers, Manufacturers

Pious Fashion book cover featuring a moody editorial photograph of a woman wearing luxurious textiles and head scarf, sipping a cup of tea while sitting on a counter in an amber kitchen. Minimal cover title at the upper right of the cover.

Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress

Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe and North America

Book cover featuring a black and white vintage photograph of a luxe home interior.

Frances Elkins: Visionary American Designer

White book cover with a black lacquered box encrusted with jewels in the form of an image of a black panther among trees. Title in thin magenta sans serif letters to the right

Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection

Muslim Fashion book cover featuring a photograph of two women wearing denim and carrying large purses, one wearing a turban and one wearing a hijab, laughing as they crossing a street. Title in a blue band across the bottom of the cover.

Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures

Book cover with photographs of square cloths with red paisley patterns laid over an enlarged detail of a similar pattern. Title in white italicized script font near the top

Victorian Paisley Shawls

Book cover features an iridescent texture similar to the oil films on water or soap bubbles. White stripe on the right edge includes the title, subtitle, and the author's name in purple font.

Glitterworlds: The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing

Book cover with over scaled black and white photograph of lips surrounding title in gray

Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric

Yellow book cover with a yellow sculpture of a handgun suspended by rods in a handbag with missing sides. Title "Ted Noten" is in white letters above and below

Ted Noten: Ubiquist

White book cover with large pocketed planet like sphere overlaid with a giant vertically stretched booktitle "Bron" which is Dutch for "source"

Ruudt Peters: Source