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Zandra Rhodes50 Fabulous Years in Fashion

Edited by Dennis Nothdruft with Zandra Rhodes

Zandra Rhodes provides a luscious documentary of this leading British designer, spanning her 50-year career in fashion and textile design. The book showcases not only Rhodes’s work but also her vivid personality and creative energy. Both a fashion trailblazer and a consummate textile designer, she has influenced the work of contemporary labels such as Mary Katrantzou and Alice Temperley. The book honours the centrality of textile design in Rhodes’s work, while exploring the versatility of her imagination throughout her long career; contributors include Pierpaolo Piccioli (creative director of Valentino), Suzy Menkes (editor of Vogue International), and celebrated fashion designers Anna Sui and Rajeev Sethi.

Zandra Rhodes is a British fashion and textile designer.Dennis Nothdruft is head of exhibitions at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. 

September 2019 | Hardback | 260 colour + b/w illus.£30.00/$40.00

Fashion and PoliticsEdited by Djurdja Bartlett; With contributions by Serkan Delice, Rhonda Garelick, Erica de Greef, Jin Li Lim,Gabi Scardi, Tony Sullivan, Carol Tulloch, Jane Tynan, and Barbara Vinken

Taking a multifaceted look at a topic of widespread fascination, this pioneering book presents new research on the intersection of fashion and politics through incisive essays by the field’s leading voices, including both renowned and emerging fashion scholars. The texts unpack fashion between the mid-19th century and today as expressions of nationalism, terrorism, surveillance, and individualism, as well as a symbol of capitalism. The book’s engrossing and beautifully illustrated essays provide a timely investigation of an underdeveloped topic through a variety of historical and current formats, including public and personal archives, fashion magazines, political newspapers, museum displays, art, and social media.

Djurdja Bartlett is reader in histories and cultures of fashion at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.

August 2019 | Hardcover | 120 colour illus.£35.00/$45.00

Published in association with the Fashion and Textile Museum, London

The PocketA Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900

Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux

This first book-length study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women’s everyday lives—from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen—and explore their consumption practices, work, sociability, mobility, privacy, and identity. The authors draw on an unprecedented study of surviving pockets in museums and private collections to identify their materials, techniques, and decoration; their use is investigated through sources as diverse as criminal trials, letters, diaries, inventories, novels, and advertisements. Richly illustrated with paintings, satirical prints, and photographs of artifacts in detail, this book reveals the unexpected story of these deeply evocative and personal objects.

May 2019 | Hardcover | 200 colour illus.£35.00/$50.00

Barbara Burman is an independent scholar. Ariane Fennetaux is associate professor of 18th-century British history at the Université Paris Diderot.

Dress in the Age of Jane AustenRegency Fashion

Hilary Davidson

This lively book reveals the clothing and fashion of the world depicted in Jane Austen’s beloved books, focusing on the long Regency between the years 1795 and 1825. During this period, accelerated change saw Britain’s turbulent entry into the modern age, and clothing reflected these transformations. Starting with the intimate perspective of clothing the self, Dress in the Age of Jane Austen moves outward through the social and cultural spheres of home, village, countryside, and cities, and into the wider national and global realms, exploring the varied ways people dressed to inhabit these environments. Jane Austen’s famously observant fictional writings, as well as her letters, provide the entry point for examining the Regency age’s rich complexity of fashion, dress, and textiles for men and women in their contemporary contexts.

Hilary Davidson is a dress and textile historian based in Australia and Britain, who has contributed to numerousexhibition catalogues.

October 2019 | Hardcover | 180 colour illus.£30.00/£40.00

French Fashion, Women &The First World WarEdited by Maude Bass-Krueger and Sophie Kurkdjian

This fascinating exploration of French women’s fashion during World War I is the first in-depth consideration of the role that fashion played in the upheaval of French society between 1914 and 1918. As the fashion industry—the second largest industry in the country—mobilised to help the war effort, Parisian couture houses introduced new styles, aggressively disseminated information through magazines, and strengthened their propaganda efforts overseas. With focused studies of wartime garments such as skirt suits, nurse’s uniforms, work overalls, and mourning clothes, this volume brings to life the passionate debates that roiled the French fashion industry and reveals the extent to which fashion was a hotly contested topic and a barometer for social tensions throughout this tumultuous era.

Maude Bass-Krueger is postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Arts in Society at Leiden University. Sophie Kurkdjian is a research fellow at l’Institut d’histoire du temps présent (IHTP-CNRS).

September 2019 | Hardcover | 270 colour + b/w illus.£50.00/$65.00

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Cloth That Changedthe WorldThe Art and Fashion of Indian Chitz978-0-300-24679-7February 2020 | £35.00/$50.00

Stuart StyleMonarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male Elite978-0-300-24036-8March 2020 | £45.00/$60.00

Tudor Textiles978-0-300-24412-0April 2020 | £35.00/$50.00

Back in FashionWestern Fashion from the Middle Ages to the PresentGiorgio RielloApril 2020 | Paperback | 100 colour + b/w illus. | £25.00/$35.00

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Front Cover Image:Zandra Rhodes—50 Fabulous Years in FashionAutumn/Winter 1981, ‘Renaissance/Gold’ collection. Pleated gold lurex jacket with swirl sleeves and a tassel embellished with gold beads, style 81/178.Photograph by Jon Stokes. Project Managed by UCA and funded by JISC.

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