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

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

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

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

Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking

Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

A pink book cover featuring 28 words/ adjectives/ concepts that influenced fashion, in various font sizes.

100 Ideas That Changed Fashion

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

A cover with a rhythmic pattern of intersecting and overlapping triangles in complementary shades of red, plum and pink. Anni is spelled in white letters in the upper right and Albers in the lower left, sans serif.

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

Book cover showing embroidered textile with blue black and reddish pink pattern forms with the word "KANTHA" in blue serif letters

Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide

Book cover featuring a photograph of an accessorized woman in a pink power suit, wearing hijab. Yellow text overlaid reads: "Modesty A Fashion Paradox"

Modesty: A Fashion Paradox

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

Green book cover features an elaborate imperial gold necklace at the top that frames the title at the lower center in light yellow font. The subtitle and the author's name gradually appears under the title in smaller font.

Jewels That Made History: 101 Stones, Myths, and Legends

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

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

Book cover features an exquisite Indian textile with red and blue flowers and yellow, green, and red birds. A blue circle at the center contains the title of the book in white font in two lines.

Textiles of India

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

Dark blue book cover with figure in blue tones wearing a ghostly threaded dress behind pink title information

Smart Textiles for Designers: Inventing the Future of Fabrics

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

Black book cover featuring a photo of a an elaborate, detailed, sculptural assemblage made up of found objects including nails, beads, razor blades, staples, with a dripping gold shape at its center. Text to the right reads "William Harper The Beautiful & the Grotesque."

William Harper: The Beautiful and the Grotesque

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

Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric

Book cover featuring an image a working fashion studio including 3 bare mannequins, one in focus and the other two not as much; black lines on mannequins suggest plans for a design. The image has a color tint which closely resembles Tiffany Blue. Title in white.

Fashion Design: A Guide to the Industry and the Creative Process

Book cover with orange and rad paisley pattern overlaid with title cut out of a transparent white field

Paisley: A Visual Survey of Pattern and Color Variations

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 featuring a white woman off-centered to the left, with long blond hair, glancing over to the left side of the book with her head tilted toward the same direction. Her body faces forward, dressed in an futuristic-like halter gown, which blends with her hair color. The background is a large flowing fabric which also is similarly colored to the gown and hair of the model. The title is in white text in the top right corner

The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion: 250 Years of Design

A book featuring a rainbow on its cover against a dark backdrop. There is black text printed on the bottom left corner of the book cover.

Materialising Colour

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

Book cover with delicate pleated fabric pieces in rich undulating colors surrounding the title

Digital Textile Design

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

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