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A new edition of this hugely successful international survey covering all aspects of fashion, organized around crucial shifts in style and major world events

From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to celebrity couture of the new millennium and the evolution of streetwear, this comprehensive survey explores significant developments in fashion from 1900 to the present day. Fashion historians Amy de la Haye and Valerie Mendes focus on key movements and innovations in style, and explore trends through the work of some of the world’s most original and influential designers and couturiers. Chapters are organized around crucial shifts in tastes and major world events, and exciting advances in fashion are placed within their socioeconomic, political and cultural contexts.

International in scope with colour illustrations throughout, this edition includes updated text as well as a new chapter that discusses some of the defining features of fashion in our time: the industry’s proactive embrace of age, gender and race diversity, and its ongoing efforts to combat labour exploitation and encourage global sustainability.

Contents List:

Preface
1. 1900–1913: Undulations and Exotica
2. 1914–1929: La Garçonne and the New Simplicity
3. 1930–1938: Recession and Escapism
4. 1939–1945: Rationed Fashion and Home-Made Style
5. 1946–1956: Femininity and Conformity
6. 1957–1967: Affluence and the Teenage Challenge
7. 1968–1975: Eclecticism and Ecology
8. 1976–1988: Sedition and Consumerism
9. 1989–1999: Fashion Goes Global
10. 2000–2010: Planet Fashion
11. Fashion 2010–2020
Bibliography

About the Authors:

Valerie Mendes, formerly Head of the Textiles and Dress Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is a freelance fashion and textiles historian and consultant. She began her career at Manchester University's Whitworth Art Gallery, and has curated numerous exhibitions and published widely. Professor Amy de la Haye is Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Dress History and Fashion Curatorship at London College of Fashion. She was formerly Curator of Twentieth-Century Dress at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Her many publications include The Cutting Edge: British Fashion 1947–1997; The A–Z of Style; Chanel: Couture & Industry; and, with Judith Clark, Exhibiting Fashion.

This is a first-ever examination of many long-term professional partnerships that have shaped the fashion world.

A beautifully designed volume, Fashion Together showcases the vision and synergism of these talented teams to both fashion connoisseurs and anyone interested in creative collaboration.

An exclusive look at the dynamic collaborations of fashion's most celebrated partnerships.

Fashion is often seen as an industry of eccentric personalities and unique, exceptional talents but it's the collaborators, rather than the individuals, who underpin the industry and inspire this book. This stylish volume, compiled by Lou Stoppard, editor-at-large of London's SHOWstudio, delves into the behind-the-scenes worlds of the fashion industry's most intriguing partnerships to explore what, exactly, makes these pairs such magical duos. Featuring eighteen illuminating conversations led by Stoppard, Fashion Together: Fashion's Most Extraordinary Duos on the Art of Collaboration reveals the secrets behind leading fashion luminaries such as Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler, Marc Jacobs and Katie Grand, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy, and Stephen Jones and Thom Browne. Never-before-seen photographs and sketches, handwritten notes, and fashion editorials showcase each duo's most memorable work. Profound, funny, and provocative, the conversations range from childhood inspirations to nitty-gritty industry details to advice on how to succeed in the fashion business today. 

Names featured are: Marc Jacobs and Katie Grand, Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy, Nick Knight and Daphne Guinness, Riccardo Tisci and Mariacarla Boscono, Jonathan Anderson and Benjamin Bruno, Shaun Leane and Alexander McQueen. Kim Jones and Alister Mackie, Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Carol Lim and Humberto Leon, Gareth Pugh and Ruth Hogben, Philip Treacy on Isabella Blow, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Thom Browne and Stephen Jones, Katie Hillier and Luella Bartley, Iris Van Herpen and Philip Beesley and Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler.

About the Author:

Lou Stoppard is a London-based fashion writer and broadcaster. SHOWstudio's fashion editor, Stoppard hosts SHOWstudio's acclaimed live panel discussions and conducts many of the site's popular live interviews. She has written for titles including The Times, GQ Style, ELLE, ELLE Collections, Bon, Stylist and Dazed & Confused. Stoppard also hosts and chairs Editd.com's "Editions" events series, which focuses on bringing together the most interesting people in the fashion and tech worlds. She has also collaborated with the V&A as part of their V&A Connects and Talking Fashion talk series. Stoppard has guest lectured at London College of Fashion and Central Saint Martins. Andrew Bolton is curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bolton is recognized for having spearheaded some of the most groundbreaking and innovative fashion exhibitions in the museum's history. Most noted for the phenomenally successful Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty retrospective in 2011, Bolton has also overseen Dangerous Liaisons and AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion.

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An understanding of trends is a fundamental skill for anyone working in the fashion industry. In this book Gwyneth Holland and Rae Jones look at how to produce a well-researched trend, from initial inspiration to concrete idea and, eventually, real product. Illustrated throughout with insights from practising trend forecasters and industry insiders, it is an invaluable guide for fashion students and practitioners alike.

Contents:
Introduction 
Chapter 1 Fashion Trends Then and Now 
Chapter 2 The Trend Industry 
Chapter 3 Trend Basics 
Chapter 4 Trend Research 
Chapter 5 Trend Development 
Chapter 6 Trend Presentation 
Chapter 7 Trends in Practice
Glossary
Resources 
Index 
Picture Credits 

About the Authors:

Gwyneth Holland has worked for leading trend agencies such as WGSN. She now consults for a broad range of blue-chip clients and teaches at the University of Westminster. Rae Jones is a footwear and accessories specialist who has worked at WGSN and now contributes to trend organizations around the world. She runs an accessories brand, Buckitt, and also teaches at the University of Westminster.

Fashion writing now enjoys its highest-ever profile as the digital world has multiplied the number of platforms on which it is available. No longer confined to restrictive print schedules or occasional broadcast slots, fashion has become an ever-present content driver. With retailers, brands and designers all in on the act, plus citizen fashion coverage from the social media community, the volume of fashion content has risen beyond any predictions.

While influencers monetise their musings - indeed, create successful and influential fashion media and fashion product businesses - traditional magazines and newspapers have expanded their multi-channel fashion content in order to secure more touch points with consumers.

Aimed at students on journalism, content creation, media and publishing courses this guide will also appeal to untrained writers who want to develop a more professional approach to their fashion writing.

About the Author:

Josephine Collins is the course leader for BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism and Content Creation and senior lecturer in print and online journalism at London College of Fashion. She has extensive experience as an editor and writer across business and consumer magazines, newspapers and online.

The relationship between art, nature and fashion in the creations of the Venezuelan designer that conquered public and critics around the world.

Fashion and art have always had intimate and fruitful relations, accompanying social change and, in particular, the role of women in the world.

Oscar Carvallo is a fashion designer who challenges things with his original and amusing contents and who, among his numerous artistic collaborations, is associated with Carlos Cruz-Diez, a key Op art artist and colour theorist, to elaborate new collections.

This extraordinary encounter has given life to creations titled “Kinetic Journey”. Silhouettes and colours occupy space-time, accompany the fluid motion of silks and satins or sculpt bodies in an intermingling of colours that make the senses vibrate and deceive the gaze.

Carvallo’s passion for art is linked to his love of nature, pursued with true dedication. Born in Caracas, near the sea and lush landscapes, the designer extols the silhouettes of women that become, each time, women-flowers, women-feathers, women-fish... His vision of the world is reflected in his collections “Save Our Soul”, “Caribbean Sea” or “Neptune”; he reveals the anxiety of being in “Melancholy” or “Eagle Eye”; he questions the passing of time that withers and decays things and living beings. Carvallo tries to fight this decay – with artists, designers, craftsmen – and to build beauty – freeing it, displaying it. This incredible creative inclination sublimes nature that can renew itself and which must be safeguarded.

With more than 1,000 illustrations, Fashion: The Whole Story follows the evolution of fashion via its most important moments – and most impracticable fads – culminating in the modern era of the supermodel

Fashion: The Whole Story provides a global history of fashion and traces the evolution of fashion design period by period and trend by trend.

- Organized chronologically, covering Greco-Roman draped clothing and the silk court dress of the Chinese Tang dynasty through to contemporary sportswear designers and Japanese street fashion
- Places key fashion pieces in the context of social and cultural developments, with historical timelines highlighting important influences and events
- Takes you inside the process of creating haute couture, from concept to catwalk
- Written by an international team of experts led by Marnie Fogg

About the Author:

Marnie Fogg is a fashion expert and media consultant, and the bestselling author of The Fashion Swatch Book and Why You Can Go Out Dressed Like That. Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.

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From the Greco–Roman period on, this enthralling book presents the high points of fashion history throughout the world: the silk robes of the Chinese Tang dynasty; the kosode of the Japanese Heian period; the kaftan of the Ottoman Empire; Christian Dior’s post-World War II New Look; and the laser-cut Nu-craft of the present day.

Fashion: The Whole Story takes a revealing look at the world’s most influential modern designers, as well as the quirky ideas and occasional bursts of eccentricity that have taken fashion in innovative new directions. An assessment of fashion icons allows you to understand how one designer or style influenced another.

Fashion: The Whole Story details the individual key pieces that epitomize defining styles or epochs in fashion history. It explains everything from the choice of specific materials or individual design features to the significance of designs created during times of crisis.

Marvel at the dress of the Mughal Empire and the steel-hooped crinoline of the 19th century; discover the lines of a classic man’s suit and the political implications of the mini skirt; and understand the incredible science behind the latest ‘smart’ materials in sportswear.

‘A serious yet readable history that takes the reader from the togas and tunics of early civilizations to the age of ASOS’ Telegraph

The memopad is designed for idea mapping and to work in harmony with Fashionary sketchbooks & tools

The flexibility of the memo pad allows you to create your idea-mapping wall, laying out all the designs as well as allowing mixing, matching and rearranging. Developing your collection will be much easier – and much more fun.

- Contains figure and technical templates
- Perfect for creating mood boards & production plans
- Water-resistant calico cover

The Atelier Collection

The fundamentals of The Atelier Collection portrays a "Less is More" concept hence the minimalistic touch. The sketchbook speaks for authenticity on an exquisite artistry level. It provokes an individual's creativity with no boundaries, which is demonstrated from the subtle memopad appearance.

Easy for Mixing and Matching

The versatility of our Memopad facilitates your brainstorming process through mixing, matching drawings quick and easily. Elevate your efficiency and accuracy. With Fashionary templates, you can just focus on your ideas and unreveal the undiscovered emerging out from your stick & matching process.

Water-resistant Calico Cover

The cover is made from one of the most familiar fabrics for fashion designers- cotton calico. It also represents ideas, creation and development. The material forms a high durability water-resistant cover, exquisite quality intended to be used along your designing journey. Hence, the calico cover contains natural cottonseeds, giving every sketchbook that unique touch.

Figure Templates + Technical Templates

The memopad provides the flexibility for creating your collection:
Front Side - Men's Figure Templates
Flip Side - Men's Technical Templates

Organizing your Ideas

Make sure efficiency is on point as a busy fashion designer, time must be well utilized and organisation is the key. Fashionary templates are lightly printed on every sheet without you needing to worry about getting the accurate proportions on every one of your designs. Just focus on your ideas and forget about getting the right figures when it's all laid out for you.

Perfect Match with Fashionary Products

Memopad is designed to work in harmony with Fashionary sketchbooks & tools. Simply slip Fashionary Poses underneath the Memo sheet or sketchbooks and you can freely draw other dynamic poses and designs without feeling distracted.

360 templates

Good ideas come from continuous sketching. With 180 memo papers and 360 templates, there is nothing to stop the creative flow.

About the Author:

Founded in 2008, Fashionary is the best-selling fashion sketchbook, a practical tool for professionals who are working at all levels of the fashion industry. The name originated from "Fashion + Dictionary + Diary".

A sketchbook Tailor-made for Fashion Designers

The name "FASHIONARY" comes from "Fashion + Dictionary + Diary." The sketchbook contains extensive fashion information and blended figure templates. It is the perfect tool for brainstorming, fast sketching, and quick referencing.

The sketchbook is combined with extensive fashion information and blended figure templates. It is the perfect tool for brainstorming, fast sketching and quick referencing.

- Tailor-made for fashion designers
- Bleed-proof paper for marker and watercolor
- Encourages quick sketching and brainstorming
- Mini fashion dictionary included
- Over 180 figure templates
- Water-resistant calico cover

The Atelier Collection

The fundamentals of The Atelier Collection portrays a "Less is More" concept hence the minimalistic touch. The sketchbook speaks for authenticity on an exquisite artistry level. It provokes an individual's creativity with no boundaries, which is demonstrated from the subtle sketchbook appearance.

Organize your Ideas in a Presentable Way

Every template is designed with the same size and pose, it allows your ideas and developments to be presented with an organized and well balanced spacing which is better for chronicle presentation. It provides a well organized surface for your designs to be viewed side to side.

Water-resistant Calico Cover

The cover is made from one of the most familiar fabrics for fashion designers- cotton calico. It also represents ideas, creation and development. The material forms a high durability water-resistant cover, exquisite quality intended to be used along your designing journey. Hence, the calico cover contains natural cottonseeds, giving every sketchbook that unique touch.

Bleedproof Paper - A4 Size Only

The A4 Sketchbook is made from 128gsm paper. It works beautifully with a range of tools such as markers, watercolor and color pencils. You can even manipulate colors to build effects – such as gradients, fabric textures, and lighting effects – to your desired saturation.

Mini Fashion Dictionary + Figure Templates

The sketchbook is divided into 2 parts to help kick-start the creative process:
Part 1 - Mini Fashion Dictionary (15% pages)
Part 2 - Men's Figure Templates (85% pages)

Handy professional information

Fashionary sketchbooks streamline fashion development by including a mini fashion dictionary. With professional fashion information where you can refer back instantly, in aid of providing industry terms and jargon to make decisions about stitching, fabric, and methods.

About the Author:

Founded in 2008, Fashionary is the best-selling fashion sketchbook, a practical tool for professionals who are working at all levels of the fashion industry. The name originated from "Fashion + Dictionary + Diary".

The Most Practical Shoe Encyclopedia Ever

Differential from ordinary shoe design books, the Shoe Design is a complete handbook focusing on speeding up the design process of footwear designers.

Encyclopedia & Templates Collection

Shoe Design divided into 3 main sections:

Part 1 - Shoe Style Library
Part 2 - Shoe Encyclopedia
Part 3 - Shoe Template Collections

Extensive Footwear Information

Shoe Encyclopedia focuses on the most essential and practical shoe design information like shoe measurements, anatomy, manufacturing, patterns, materials, shoe labels and trade fairs

Multi-angle Templates for Tracing

With the templates in the Shoe Design Book, drawing shoes in different angles becomes so much easier. All templates have been professionally modified in multi-angles views for besttracing experience!

Shoe Last Templates in Different Heights

Lasts come in many styles and sizes depends on the design. Shoe last templates session features 12 most significant shoe lasts for particular heel heights, toe shapes, and types of footwear.

Common Shoe Templates for Fast Tracing

Featuring 60 styles of shoes from flats to high-heels for tracing in different views (Top, side, front and back, 3/4 view).

 - Over 300 shoe styles ranging from ancient to contemporary.
 - Shoe Encyclopedia contains Anatomy, Shoe Construction, Shoe Components, Shoe Care and more...
 - Shoe Last Template Collection with 12 different heights in multi-angle.
 - Over 60 Common Shoes templates in multi-angle.
 - All Templates are professionally modified for the best tracing experience.

The memopad is designed for idea mapping and to work in harmony with Fashionary sketchbooks & tools

The flexibility of the memo pad allows you to create your idea-mapping wall, laying out all the designs as well as allowing mixing, matching and rearranging. Developing your collection will be much easier – and much more fun.

- Contains figure and technical templates
- Perfect for creating mood boards & production plans
- Water-resistant calico cover

The Atelier Collection

The fundamentals of The Atelier Collection portrays a "Less is More" concept hence the minimalistic touch. The sketchbook speaks for authenticity on an exquisite artistry level. It provokes an individual's creativity with no boundaries, which is demonstrated from the subtle memopad appearance.

Easy for Mixing and Matching

The versatility of our Memopad facilitates your brainstorming process through mixing, matching drawings quick and easily. Elevate your efficiency and accuracy. With Fashionary templates, you can just focus on your ideas and unreveal the undiscovered emerging out from your stick & matching process.

Water-resistant Calico Cover

The cover is made from one of the most familiar fabrics for fashion designers- cotton calico. It also represents ideas, creation and development. The material forms a high durability water-resistant cover, exquisite quality intended to be used along your designing journey. Hence, the calico cover contains natural cottonseeds, giving every sketchbook that unique touch.

Figure Templates + Technical Templates

The memopad provides the flexibility for creating your collection:
Front Side - Women's Figure Templates
Flip Side - Women's Technical Templates

Organizing your Ideas

Make sure efficiency is on point as a busy fashion designer, time must be well utilized and organisation is the key. Fashionary templates are lightly printed on every sheet without you needing to worry about getting the accurate proportions on every one of your designs. Just focus on your ideas and forget about getting the right figures when it's all laid out for you.

Perfect Match with Fashionary Products

Memopad is designed to work in harmony with Fashionary sketchbooks & tools. Simply slip Fashionary Poses underneath the Memo sheet or sketchbooks and you can freely draw other dynamic poses and designs without feeling distracted.

360 templates

Good ideas come from continuous sketching. With 180 memo papers and 360 templates, there is nothing to stop the creative flow.

About the Author:

Founded in 2008, Fashionary is the best-selling fashion sketchbook, a practical tool for professionals who are working at all levels of the fashion industry. The name originated from "Fashion + Dictionary + Diary".

A sketchbook Tailor-made for Fashion Designers

The name "FASHIONARY" comes from "Fashion + Dictionary + Diary." The sketchbook contains extensive fashion information and blended figure templates. It is the perfect tool for brainstorming, fast sketching, and quick referencing.

The sketchbook is combined with extensive fashion information and blended figure templates. It is the perfect tool for brainstorming, fast sketching and quick referencing.

- Tailor-made for fashion designers
- Bleed-proof paper for marker and watercolor
- Encourages quick sketching and brainstorming
- Mini fashion dictionary included
- Over 180 figure templates
- Water-resistant calico cover

The Atelier Collection

The fundamentals of The Atelier Collection portray a "Less is More" concept, hence the minimalistic touch. The sketchbook speaks for authenticity on an exquisite artistry level. It provokes an individual's creativity with no boundaries, which is demonstrated from the subtle sketchbook appearance.

Organize your Ideas in a Presentable Way

Every template is designed with the same size and pose, it allows your ideas and developments to be presented with an organized and well balanced spacing which is better for chronicle presentation. It provides a well organized surface for your designs to be viewed side to side.

Water-resistant Calico Cover

The cover is made from one of the most familiar fabrics for fashion designers- cotton calico. It also represents ideas, creation and development. The material forms a high durability water-resistant cover, exquisite quality intended to be used along your designing journey. Hence, the calico cover contains natural cottonseeds, giving every sketchbook that unique touch.

Bleedproof Paper - A4 Size Only

The A4 Sketchbook is made from 128gsm paper. It works beautifully with a range of tools such as markers, watercolor and color pencils. You can even manipulate colors to build effects – such as gradients, fabric textures, and lighting effects – to your desired saturation.

Mini Fashion Dictionary + Figure Templates

The sketchbook is divided into 2 parts to help kick-start the creative process:
Part 1 - Mini Fashion Dictionary (15% pages)
Part 2 - Women"s Figure Templates (85% pages)

Handy professional information

Fashionary sketchbooks streamline fashion development by including a mini fashion dictionary. With professional fashion information where you can refer back instantly, in aid of providing industry terms and jargon to make decisions about stitching, fabric, and methods.

About the Author:

Founded in 2008, Fashionary is the best-selling fashion sketchbook, a practical tool for professionals who are working at all levels of the fashion industry. The name originated from "Fashion + Dictionary + Diary".

A sketchbook Tailor-made for Fashion Designers

The name "FASHIONARY" comes from "Fashion + Dictionary + Diary". The sketchbook is combined with extensive fashion information and blended figure templates. It is the perfect tool for brainstorming, fast sketching and quick referencing.

The sketchbook is combined with extensive fashion information and blended figure templates. It is the perfect tool for brainstorming, fast sketching and quick referencing.

- Tailor-made for fashion designers
- Encourages quick sketching and brainstorming
- Mini fashion dictionary included
- Over 270 figure templates
- Water-resistant calico cover

The Atelier Collection

The fundamentals of The Atelier Collection portrays a "Less is More" concept hence the minimalistic touch. The sketchbook speaks for authenticity on an exquisite artistry level. It provokes an individual's creativity with no boundaries, which is demonstrated from the subtle sketchbook appearance.

Organize your Ideas in a Presentable Way

Every template is designed with the same size and pose, it allows your ideas and developments to be presented with an organized and well balanced spacing which is better for chronicle presentation. It provides a well organized surface for your designs to be viewed side to side.

Water-resistant Calico Cover

The cover is made from one of the most familiar fabrics for fashion designers- cotton calico. It also represents ideas, creation and development. The material forms a high durability water-resistant cover, exquisite quality intended to be used along your designing journey. Hence, the calico cover contains natural cottonseeds, giving every sketchbook that unique touch.

Mini Fashion Dictionary + Figure Templates

The sketchbook is divided into 2 parts to help kick-start the creative process:
Part 1 - Mini Fashion Dictionary (15% pages)
Part 2 - Womens Figure Templates (85% pages)

Handy professional information

Fashionary sketchbooks streamline fashion development by including a mini fashion dictionary. With professional fashion information where you can refer back instantly, in aid of providing industry terms and jargon to make decisions about stitching, fabric, and methods.

About the Author:

Founded in 2008, Fashionary is the best-selling fashion sketchbook, a practical tool for professionals who are working at all levels of the fashion industry. The name originated from "Fashion + Dictionary + Diary".

Before appearing on the BBC’s The Great British Sewing Bee, Chinelo Bally had never used a sewing pattern. She wowed the judges with her ability to create stylish, fitted garments using a freehand cutting method that was taught to her by an aunt. In Freehand Fashion, Chinelo lets us in to the secret of how she does it.

Using a series of basic garment blocks, Chinelo explains how this innovative technique can be used to create a whole wardrobe of fashionable clothes that will fit every shape and size – with no patterns required.

Based on a traditional Nigerian technique, Chinelo has developed her own freehand cutting method. The emphasis is on the individual’s own body measurements, and getting the perfect fit. This is a surprisingly simple technique that anyone can learn. No fancy equipment is needed – just a sewing machine, measuring tape, chalk and of course a good pair of scissors.

Using step-by-step illustrations, the book shows how to draft, cut and construct the five basic blocks that are used – either singly or in combination – to make every item of clothing in the wardrobe. Once you have your basic blocks, you are ready to tackle the projects – practical garments that are fashionable, modern, stylish and versatile. There are tops, skirts, day dresses and eveningwear. This is an exciting sewing technique that will be brand new to most people, even experienced dressmakers. There really are no limits – and the beauty of this technique is that it can be applied to any body shape.

About the Author:

Chinelo Bally is a Nigerian-born Brit who appeared on the BBC’s ‘Great British Sewing Bee’, where she wowed judges and fellow contestants with her freehand cutting method. Chinelo is the author of Freehand Fashion and is an expert on BBC2’s upcoming show ‘Saved and Remade’.

A groundbreaking, informative, and thought-provoking exploration of fur’s fashionable and controversial history

The first and only book of its kind, Fur: A Sensitive History looks at the impact of fur on society, politics, and, of course, fashion. This material has a long, complex, and rich history, culminating in recent and ongoing anti-fur debates. Jonathan Faiers discusses how fur — long praised for its warmth, softness, and connotation of status—became so controversial, at the center of campaigns against animal cruelty and the movement toward ethical fashion. At the same time, fake fur now faces a backlash of its own, given the environmental impact of its manufacture and its links to fast fashion.
 
Divided into five sections — dedicated to hair, pelt, coat, skin, and fleece—the book surveys not only the politics of fur but also its centrality to western fashion, the tactile pleasure it gives, and its use in literature, art, and film. This thoughtfully reasoned, eloquently written, and spectacularly illustrated examination of fur is both timely and essential, filling a gap in fashion scholarship and appealing to a broad audience.

About the Author:

Jonathan Faiers is professor of fashion thinking at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

Future Beauty is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last 30 years. Such designers as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late twentieth century, challenging established notions of beauty and turning fashion into art. Today a new generation of radical designers, among them Tao Kurihara and Jun Takahashi, is fast gaining acclaim. This spectacular book, written by a team of experts led by the eminent fashion historian Akiko Fukai, explores the distinct sensibility of Japanese design – the uniqueness of its form, cut and fabric. Illustrated with over 250 photographs and sketches, Future Beauty is an authoritative and stylish guide to some of the world’s most expressive fashion.

_A major new study of avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the early 1980s to the present day
_Featured designers include such international masters as Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Jun Watanabe, as well as a new generation of radical designers, such as Jun Takahashi