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

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

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

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

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 3

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

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

Light gray book cover showing five strips of cream fabric vertically lined each demonstrating a different stitch in muted thread colors

The Geometry of Hand-Sewing

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

African Apparel book cover featuring a photograph of an intricate beaded textile with the title centered in a green rectangle.

African Apparel: Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century

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 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

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

Duro Olowu: Seeing

Book cover featuring a black and white image of a black woman, presumably from the 1960's (based on her clothing and styling), leaning against a vintage two door vehicle, parked on a dirt road in a residential neighborhood. Title in bold and black at the top right corner.

The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora

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

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

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

Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide

Square book cover featuring a photograph of a woman wearing yellow shoes and a yellow head scarf, walking in front of a vibrant blue corrugated wall. Text overlaid reads: Tehran Streetstyle.

Tehran Streetstyle

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

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 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

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

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 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 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

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

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

Target: 20 Years of Design for All

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

Yellow rectangular book cover with a faint yellow-gray textile texture. Large text overlaid reads: Knoll Textiles: Nineteenhundredfortyfive – TwoThousandTen

Knoll Textiles: 1945-2010

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

Bright yellow book cover with diecut sans serif letters showing yellow fiber pattern and print below spelling out book title

Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance

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