(Hardback)

The enigmatic Spanish couturier Cristobal Balenciaga has become a legendary figure in the history of twentieth-century fashion. Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion offers a thorough examination of the couturier's fashion philosophy, design and business practices.

(Hardback)

A rich and authoritative sourcebook on silk, with more than 600 colour illustrations.

(Hardback)

In 1764, British Customs confiscated a book containing hundreds of silk samples of different qualities from French agents who were attempting to sell them illegally in London. The merchant's sample book acquired in 1972 by the V&A may be this very book, a fascinating record of the eighteenth-century French and English silk industries.