(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Examining the surviving garments of Queen Alexandra, this book explores the dress and society of the royal elite in the 19th century.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

"Interrogative Design aims to animate the city as a space of public discourse and dynamic democratic process through critical interventions that raise awareness regarding social concerns, e.g., violence"--

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

A foundational text offering a unified design vocabulary and a common methodology for maximizing the expressive power of digital artifacts.

(Hardback)

For a designer, the fashion show invitation is a statement of intent, providing the first inkling for fashion editors and buyers of how a designer is thinking that particular season. This book presents a collection of 300 fashion show invitations that span the past four decades, juxtaposing examples from womenswear and menswear collections.

(Hardback)

Years of beautiful, rare, and sometimes hilariously awful Jane Austen covers with entertaining and informative text.

(Hardback)

This text provides easy-to-follow instructions for making all the major styles of Japanese bookbindings and traditional book cases.

(Paperback)

The colourful and stylised kimono, the national garment of Japan, expresses not only Japanese fashion and design taste but also reveals something of the soul of Japan, and is seen by many as a symbol for all that is Japanese - simplicity, elegance and beauty.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

In this fascinating book, Sandy Black charts the development of knitting, from domestic handcraft to one of the most sophisticated computer controlled textile production processes used in high fashion. With stunning new photography, Knitting draws on the V&A's superlative collection of knitted fashions and artefacts.

(Paperback)

Packed with diagrams, knitwear samples and images from a range of contemporary designers, this book offers an approach to designing garments from initial research, finding sources of inspiration and developing the design, through an exploration of colour, texture and knitting techniques to constructing a garment and creating and writing a pattern.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

Provides the reader with the fundamental skills, knowledge and inspiration to design and create their own innovative knitted textiles. This book offers an introduction to the use of knitwear in fashion design. It describes the varieties of yarn and fibre, their characteristics and their behaviour, from the traditional to the contemporary.

(Paperback)

A comprehensive study of women's and men's fashion accessories providing fashion merchandising students with a detailed analysis of the fashion accessory categories. Broken into three units, this text not only covers the major categories but provides an overview of the accessories business and discusses the materials used to produce accessories.

(Paperback)

A practical, hands-on guide to learning the skills of Kodomo drawing. It includes detailed information on how to apply digital color, 3D designs, vectorial drawing, and a host of other useful design applications. It is suitable for manga artists, illustrators, and graphic designers.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Profiles more than forty iconic artists in relationship to their sartorial choices via a mix of anecdotes, portraits of the subjects in their studios, art and runway imagery, and commentary by critics, designers, and the artists.

(Hardback)

Terry Newman combines illuminating anecdotes about authors and their work, archival photography, first-person quotations from each writer and current designers, little-known facts, and clothing-oriented excerpts that exemplify their original writing style.

(Paperback)

This activity book uses humorous and informative one-page comics and exercise prompts to guide young readers (and readers who are young at heart) through easy-to-master lessons on the skills needed to make comics.

(Hardback)

"The rise of the English couture industry, and the transatlantic network that supported it during a turbulent period of depression, war, and post-war reconstruction"--

(Hardback)

The first book to examine, in detail, the luxurious garments produced by the rarefied London couture industry - from lavish ballgowns to sharply tailored suits and spectacular court dress - as well as the designers who conceived them, their clients and the prestigious publications that disseminated and promoted the 'London Look'.

(Hardback)