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This beautiful book tells the story of Chinese ceramics exported to Europe, the Middle East and South-east Asia through the V&A’s extensive and celebrated collection. Chinese Export Ceramics illustrates the extraordinary range of styles and...

In the past hundred years or so, ‘chintz’ has come to mean any floral printed furnishing fabric. Its origins as a hand-drawn and dyed fabric from India are often forgotten, but it is with these rare earlier chintzes that this book is conc...

Georgian has come to define a period characterized by elegance and refinement, as seen in the work of designers such as Thomas Chippendale, Robert Adam, Thomas Sheraton, and Josiah Wedgwood.

Highlights include exquisitely carved and inlaid Jacobean furniture, including the famous bed of Ware...

In 1947 Christian Dior rocked the fashion world with his New Look which dominated post war fashion and firmly secured the name of his house in the minds of the public and the industry. He drew on historical models of femininity and utilized the uniqu...

Christian Dior rocketed to fame with his first collection in 1947 when the ‘New Look’ took the world by storm. This charming and modest autobiography gives a fascinating and detailed insight into the workings of a great fashion house, whi...

Of all the riches of the sixteenth-century European nobleman, none spoke more powerfully of his heroism, wealth and taste than his armour, clothing and weapons. Drawing on the V&A's popular arms and armour collection, Angus Patterson looks at...

The V&A's renowned Fashion in Detail series has become essential reading for historians, costumiers, designers and fashion students alike and this impressive volume brings together for the first time, edited highlights from all the titles in ...

Hollywood star, royal bride, beloved princess – Grace Kelly lived all three roles with a style all of her own. Renowned for her cool beauty and faultless good taste, the young actress stood apart from the other film sirens of the fifties, with ...

Hats: An Anthology, now available in paperback, offers an unprecedented view of the world of millinery, drawing on the V&A's extensive collection of hats, Stephen Jones's own archive and iconic headgear from around the globe. Beautifully ...

First published in 1938, this classic book introduces the British high street, pairing the timeless illustrations of Eric Ravilious with an engaging text by architectural historian J.M. Richards. Shops include the family butcher, the coach builder, t...

This landmark book celebrates, for the very first time, the costume designer’s contribution to the telling of the cinematic story in 100 years of Hollywood. Rocking the conventions of what is considered ‘costume’, Hollywood Costume ...

Illuminated manuscripts are widely recognised as among the most beautiful objects of the western world. This is a book about their making: about the many talents involved in producing the missals, Books of Hours, breviaries and bibles that astonish u...

This sumptuous book, now updated to mark the opening of the spectacular new Jewellery Gallery at the V&A in May 2008, features exquisite early medieval pieces and superb examples of jewellery design from the Renaissance up to the present. Excepti...

The grandeur of Imperial Russia is captured in this spectacular book featuring the dress and uniforms of Emperors and officials of the Russian court. Starting in the 1730s with lavishly embroidered coats and elaborately patterned silk banyans from th...