In this anthology of personal and thought-provoking essays edited by Rosie Findlay, contributors explore how clothing can reveal the complex, deeply felt bonds we have with ourselves, our communities and the worlds through which we move. Out now! bit.ly/4gJkv1L
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The ultimate guide to starting a career in costume is coming in October!✨ You’ll be armed and ready to enter the industry with a full understanding of how things work, the many career paths available to you – and what it takes to succeed. Pre-order now: bit.ly/3UlZtxl
New 2nd edition out now - your ultimate guide to conducting object-based research in fashion, fully revised and updated. Get your copy now - for a limited time at 30% off as part of our back to school promotion: bit.ly/3SMpkOr
Here are our top picks for essential fashion audiobooks for your summer listening! 🎧✨ 📗Adorned in Dreams 📕Lipstick 📙Power, Grit & Glamour 📘Hood All Bloomsbury audiobooks are now available at 50% off on our website. Discover the full range here: bit.ly/45hUuQz
👑 Out now 👑 @sarahabendall.bsky.social tells the hidden story of the women who dressed royalty, charting their integral role in clothing six Stuart queens. Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout. Learn more: bit.ly/4gTlxsi
What is a mask? A disguise or a means of protection? Laini Burton examines masking in Western culture throughout history, urging us to reconsider how identities are constructed, maintained, and performed. Out now in hardback: bit.ly/3SQM0gc
Now available in paperback! @soniadandras.bsky.social combs through diaries, photographs and archives to reveal the story of gender, dress and modernity in Romania and beyond. Get your copy here: bit.ly/4gTPsk3
👠@choicereviews.bsky.social takes a look at Dr. Valerie Steele’s “Dress, Dreams, and Desire"—a book that weaves together fashion history and the hidden meanings of dress. https://bit.ly/4gIILkJ #BookSky #FashionSky @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social
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Out now in print and open access: a definitive history of Scottish knitting 🧶🏴 Lynn Abrams, Sally Tuckett, Marina Moskowitz, Roslyn Chapman & Lin Gardner trace the journey of Scottish knitwear from local craft to international icon. Read open access: bit.ly/4eD9pJ7
The first four volumes in our new Foundations of Fashion Studies series are out now!✨ 📙‘Don We Now Our Gay Apparel’ by Shaun Cole 📗Fashioning London by Christopher Breward 📘Adorned in Dreams by Elizabeth Wilson 📕Dress and Morality by Aileen Ribeiro Find out more about the series: bit.ly/43yk3Mf
Out now! Nancy Micklewright examines women’s lived experience in 19th-century Istanbul at a moment of dramatic change in the Ottoman Empire, through visual, written and material culture. Get your copy here: bit.ly/43MNoCz
Out now ✨ Meet the women who shaped Halston. In 'Power, Grit and Glamour', the extraordinary circle around Halston comes into focus — from Eleanor Lambert, the ‘Godmother of Fashion’, to icons like Liza Minnelli, Bianca Jagger, and Elsa Peretti. 🔗 bit.ly/4vf8i9o
New research now available 📗 Denise Hardesty Sutton presents a selection of curated case studies to highlight how innovation plays a key role in initiating fundamental change. Find out more: bit.ly/4tNUgua
Meet Fashion in Action - our new series of short books on key global issues in fashion. 📕📗📘📙 These critical books ask future generations of readers to rethink conventions and help shape a conscious, inclusive and sustainable future for all. bit.ly/4dtQWOR
Available now in paperback!✨ In American Fashion is Natalie Nudell's analysis of the Fashion Calendar, the unique scheduling service and trade publication for the American fashion and creative industries between 1941 and 2014. Get your copy: bit.ly/42SwmTc
It’s now in paperback and “a must for anyone interested in 80s street fashion, subculture, clubbing, representation and image politics.” (Peter McNeil) Philip Clarke charts the emergence of the stylist in the 1980s as a key role in fashion image-making. bit.ly/42Hrd08
Using Louis‑René Boquet (1717–1814), leading costume designer of the French court & Paris Opera, as a lens, Petra Zeller Dotlacilová explores how 18th‑century French theatrical costume evolved. Including 160 colour images. Out now: bit.ly/4vRdscQ
Exploring the experience of Auschwitz prisoners through the lens of dress, Sofia Pantouvaki draws on memoirs, testimonies, interviews and rare illustrations to explore clothing’s importance to the victims’ physical, psychological and spiritual survival. 🔗 bit.ly/3QgnWlw
Drawing new lines between the creative practices of Antwerp designers from the 1980s to the 2020s, Nicola Brajato examines how menswear, male bodies, and male sexuality have been radically queered through the lens of avant-garde fashion. 🔗 bit.ly/4t0MVYE
Marginal Fashion Publishing is out now!✨ In this new study, Laura Gardner explores artistic and critical publishing at the fringes of the commercial system from the 1990s onwards and its impact on the discourse and practice of fashion. 🔗Find out more: bit.ly/4m6504X
Out now - in fully revised and expanded 3rd edition✨ Drawing on academic research and fashion journalism - including Brenda Polan and Roger Tredre’s own interviews with designers - this is a guide to the lives and work of 59 iconic fashion designers. 📕 bit.ly/4uSlBgz
Out now: a sweeping global history of the fashion industry’s evolution. Donzé and Wubs bring together manufacturers, designers, trade associations, fashion forecasters and retailers to show just how global the business of fashion has always been. 🔗 bit.ly/4dtajJa
New releases in textiles out now!✨ 📕Textile Product Performance 📘Indigo and Resist Dyeing 📗Sustainable Fashion, Migrants, Embroidery - new in paperback! 📚Find out more on our website!
This trio of books by Pam Inder reveal the hidden worlds of the British workers behind the garments: 🧵 Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid 🎀 Feathers, Frills and Fancy Goods - new in hardback 🪡 Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen - now in paperback! 📚 bit.ly/3NkwO8D
Out now!✨ Gabby Brown & Leila Kelleher guide you through: 🌟 Drafting a complete set of plus-size blocks 🌟 Industry plus-size fit forms 🌟 Adapting existing designs for plus sizes 🌟 Practical skills for measuring, fitting, & working with larger bodies bit.ly/4aBZmDs
The big day is finally here💕 Unravel the evolution of wedding fashion from the Renaissance up to the modern day with this illustrated guide to historical styles by Lydia Edwards💖 Out now - UK, US, Europe & beyond 2 April - Australia & New Zealand bit.ly/4kHYPU1%E2%9...
Out tomorrow: follow bridalwear through history with this beautiful visual companion. 💙📚 https://bit.ly/4aNDS6w #FashionSky #FashionHistory @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social
Out now!✨ From illustrations to editorial spreads, amateur snapshots to Hollywood film, Rebecca Arnold focuses on the rapid changes of the interwar period to consider how American fashion was represented and created by visual culture. 📖 bit.ly/4avJxwW
👜 In celebration of #NYFW, add some style to your shelf with Bloomsbury Academic’s fashion books! 👠 https://bit.ly/4q9oiXn #FashionSky @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @summerbrennan.bsky.social
A new chapter following the landmark 2005 Latin American Fashion Reader... The New Latin American Fashion Reader dives into today’s conversations on decolonisation, sustainability and creative agency across the region. 🔗 bit.ly/3Z6Pefw