New research out this month! ✨ Recommend Canadian Fashion Economies and Fashion Communications between Italy and China to your library 📚

As it’s International #OpenAccessWeek2025, we thought what better time to remind you that these five books are all available to read for free online now, including Antigender Fashion and How Textile Communicates, that both released OA just this year. bloomsburycollections.com ✨

Shortlisted for the Dress Historians Book of the Year Award 2025, this collection presents fresh perspectives on the historical significance of immigrants as both laborers and specialists in textile and apparel production worldwide. Out now in paperback: bit.ly/3Ww8RMx

Available now in paperback! Becky Peterson broadens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between fabric and film. Find out more: bit.ly/46QA9BU

Out now! Follow 25 fashion entrepreneurs' journeys of self-expression, identity formation and resistance in creating their own brands that challenge heteronormativity. Get your copy here: bit.ly/46W0Rug

Now in paperback! Laura Snelgrove explores the essential question of how motherhood and fashion interact, asking how and why mothering and the motherly body have been defined, enhanced and policed by dress and the fashionable image. Find out more: bit.ly/47QfVuy

Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts and illustrations, Heather Akou explores the changing styles, business practices, and experiences of the people who make, sell, and wear service-industry uniforms in the United States. Now in paperback! bit.ly/4lQFyi5

Yuniya Kawamura brings the definitive empirical work on Japanese youth fashion subcultures up-to-date for the 2020s, featuring three new chapters and essential updates in light of new fieldwork and globalized digital media. Second edition out now: bit.ly/45IqkFD

Out now! Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, @addressingart.bsky.social explores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris crafted their public images to exploit and resist stereotypes. Find out more: bit.ly/414koW9

Now available in paperback! International scholars explore the material and immaterial value and meaning of luxury around the world, looking at how it is materialised and communicated between the luxury industry and the consumer. Find out more: bit.ly/3URSiK8

Out today in paperback! Daniel Delis Hill examines how the roles of American men, women and children changed in the post-Second World War era, and how dress reflected and reinforced the new identities. Find out more: bit.ly/4kVZM9E

Out next week! José Blanco F. & Raúl J. Vázquez-López combine new material and previously published essays that review diverse aspects of visual culture in Puerto Rico. First release in hardback - ask your library to order their copy now! Find out more: bit.ly/46TuIDU

Until midnight (GMT) Sunday 20thJuly, get up to 30% off across our range of fashion books on Bloomsbury.com. Get that book you’ve had your eye on: bit.ly/4lpXfp4 #fashionbooks

How Deborah Nadoolman Landis turned homespun costumes into Hollywood gold. Listen to the new BBC Outlook episode here: bbc.in/3ZWNLsS Watch out for Deborah's new book on the history of Hollywood costume design out Autumn/Fall next year! 👀

Learn how fashion magazines like Her World reflected and shaped evolving female identities in Southeast Asia in the 70s and 80s in this new study from Nadya Wang. First release in hardback - nudge your library to pre-order their copy! Find out more: bit.ly/46gzE5y

Out next month! Drawing on a wealth of archival research, 1960s Model Girl explores model girl narratives found throughout media, fashion magazines, advice literature, exhibits and more. First release in hardback - nudge your library to get their copy! bit.ly/3FO3dki

Antigender Fashion is available now in print AND open access! Judith Beyer develops an emerging new theoretical framework for understanding how fashion can blur and challenge gender boundaries. Find out more: bit.ly/44NujCd

The second edition of this guide to fashion and cultural theory is out now ✨ It covers 19 major thinkers including 4 new chapters on theorists W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said and bell hooks, and updates throughout. Find out more: bit.ly/435yE0P

New in paperback! Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award 2024, this book considers what came “before” plus-size fashion and reveals how the fashion industry not only perpetuates but produces weight bias. Find out more: bit.ly/447uoQT

New in paperback - philosopher Eugen Fink's answer to 'What is the essence of fashion?' "A welcome addition to the 'classics' of fashion history and theory." Fashion Theory Find out more: bit.ly/3XP4WM5

New paperback alert! In ISLAMICATE TEXTILES, Faegheh Shirazi takes us on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to uncover the central roles that textiles play within Muslim-majority communities. Find out more: bit.ly/41QlnJ9

Tonight - still time to sign up!

Next week, I'll be having a chat about my new book with @serenadyer.bsky.social as part of the Northampton-Leicester @histassoc.bsky.social programme. 6pm on 11 March. It's online and free to attend - sign up below: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-convers...

Out now! How did the unlikely bedfellows of fashion and fascism become inseparable in 1920s-1930s Italy? The 2nd edition of Fashion under Fascism includes new sections looking at colonial Italy, uniforms and the influence of 1930s cinema. Find out more: bit.ly/43bsj5T

I’ve been very sick, but @historymatt.bsky.social’s book arrived and it instantly made me feel better. I can’t wait to dive in!

Interested in fashion buying? This textbook demystifies the job, taking you from showroom to warehouse and beyond. The third edition includes new industry case studies, plus content on sustainability, social media and AI. Find out more! bit.ly/4hNThVJ

🚨Pick up a new book in our flash sale! Enjoy 30% off print books and 40% off eBooks until midnight Sunday 16th Feb. Check out the highlights 👉 bit.ly/4aKIDwb

🚨 Our latest Academic New Books catalogue is here! 🚨 Check out what we're publishing over the next few months 📚👉 bit.ly/4h1VY5K

We're delighted to announce that Morategi Kale is the winner of the 2nd annual Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 🎉 In partnership with Writers & Artists, the Fellowship supports Black authors to develop their idea through to final manuscript stage. Read the full story here: bit.ly/4hkRZBa

This month marks the 10-year anniversary of Object Lessons, a series of small, beautiful books that explore the hidden lives of ordinary things. In today’s Academic blog post 10 authors reflect on 10 years of Object Lessons bit.ly/3Cs9BvV @bloomsburylit.bsky.social

From the textile traditions of East Indonesia to suffragette embroidery in Holloway Prison, READING THE THREAD takes us through textile history to explore cloth as record and communication. Find out more 🧵 bit.ly/4gjbYyW

I'm interviewed here about my new book for the marvellous @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Miranda was a great interviewer and it was fun to do! newbooksnetwork.com/shoes-and-th...

Patricia Zipprodt was the iconic costume designer behind Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof and Chicago. Now in print for the very first time, her memoirs tell her story with acerbic humor and delicious wit. Pre-order the book here! bit.ly/4jme2J9

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are pleased to announce a #cfp for our new edited online collection of Reflective Recreations with @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social We seek short pieces of 1k words around recreative practice in dress & fashion history, museum studies & more! See the call & deadline below:

Excited to share some ideas from my forthcoming book, under contract with @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social 's Department of Human Centered Design on May 2, 2025. Don't miss the Fashion Exhibition! Details here: events.cornell.edu/event/fashio...

Exhibition alert! (US) Rendering Revolution explores the impact of the Haitian revolution on contemporary art and fashion. 📍Parsons School of Design, NY Until 15 Feb

Out now by @historymatt.bsky.social! Shoes tell us more about their wearer than any other historical garment. What can they tell us about masculinity at a time when it was changing dramatically? 📙 bit.ly/4g3obrc

Here is some info about Shoes and the Georgian Man, and also my mini "book tour" (!). If you'd like me to give a talk to your museum or history group, please get in touch historyatnorthampton.com/2025/01/17/n...

Hi Bluesky, nice to see you all! 💙🦋 We’re the fashion arm of @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social and publish hundreds of books on dress history, design and much more. You can find out more about our books here: www.bloomsbury.com/academic/fas...