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

Create historically accurate designs that fit modern bodies perfectly ✨ Inside, you’ll find: 📸 Photos of historical garments 📐 Clear bodice, skirt & sleeve block diagrams 🧵 Detailed garment analysis ✂️ Step‑by‑step instructions 🔗 bit.ly/49O2MRJ

New research on luxury fashion out now: ⌚ In Luxury Brand Management and Heritage Revival by Pierre-Yves Donzé and Harry Guhl 👜 Luxury and the Senses edited by Yasmin K. Sekhon Dhillon and Jo Norman Recommend to your library 📚 Explore fashion books: https://bit.ly/4pCeDbz

Step into the vibrant world of Bill Gibb – one of the most innovative designers of 20th‑century British fashion ✨ Edited by Josephine Steed and @shanestrachan.bsky.social, 'Refashioning Bill Gibb for the 21st Century' explores his artistic vision. Out now: bit.ly/3L8QETn

New research on Irish textiles out now: 📕The Stained and Bloodied Cloths of Ireland edited by Catherine Harper 📕 Irish Lacemaking by Molly-Claire Gillett Recommend to your library 📚

Available now in print AND open access!✨ If you could imagine an entirely new fashion system, what would you dream up? @amytwiggerh.bsky.social presents diverse, crowdsourced visions of unconventional fictional fashion systems in answer to this question. Find out more: bit.ly/4rU90I4

Plus-size fashion: a reading list✨ 📘 Fashion Before Plus-Size 📙 Fat Fashion 📗 Plus-Size Patternmaking for Womenswear 📰 Exclusive article: ‘Plus-Sized Patternmaking as Historic Dress Scholarship’ - temporarily FREE to read: bloomsburyfashioncentral.com Bloomsbury.com/newsletters/fashion-newsletter

@fashionista.com highlighted Dr. Valerie Steele’s “Dress, Dreams, and Desire” and Judith Beyer’s “Antigender Fashion” as the top fashion books to read this winter. Check out the full list: https://bit.ly/4oqjYSY #BookSky #FashionSky @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social

Fairchild Books has just released two essential patternmaking guides for your toolkit: 📘 Patternmaking with Stretch Knit Fabrics (2nd Edition) 📙 Patternmaking for Menswear (2nd Edition) Find more in-depth design textbooks at fairchildbooks.com ✨

Save the date for a deep dive into the evolution of bridalwear over three centuries from Lydia Edwards - out 19th Feb in the UK, US & beyond* RSVP to: your favourite bookstore... *Cherished guests from Australia & NZ please note your happy (publication) day is 2nd April 💕

It’s publication day for Valerie Steele's new book! Discover the hidden depths of fashion with her pathbreaking cultural history of fashion and psychoanalysis, which accompanies the Dress, Dreams, and Desire exhibition on at The Museum at FIT until 4 Jan. Get your copy here: bit.ly/4oFa6FR

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