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Fashion & Design

Festival of Britian

With A Foreword by Mary Banham. The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation. The book explores exhibitions in Poplar, Battersea and South Kensington in London; Belfast, Glasgow and Wales; a touring show carried on four lorries and another aboard an ex-aircraft carrier.

Fashion and Psychoanalysis

In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centres on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing, and fashion/art in an attempt to shed new light on these key issues.

Fashion and Psychoanalysis

In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centres on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing, and fashion/art in an attempt to shed new light on these key issues.

On the Button

There have been works addressed to the button collector and general cultural histories. On the Button links the two, revealing why we are so attracted to buttons, and how they punch way above their weight.

Hollywood Catwalk Exploring Costume and Transformation in American Film Cover

Cinderella and Pygmalion stories provide inspiration for the plots of Hollywood romantic comedies, dramas, and even action films. This book examines a key aspect of film style: the costume.

Dress Behind Bars Prison Clothing as Criminality Cover

From nineteenth-century broad arrows and black and white stripes to twenty first-century orange jumpsuits, prison clothing has both mirrored and bolstered the power of penal institutions over prisoners' lives. This book offers an investigation of prison dress, which demystifies the experience of what it is like to be an imprisoned criminal.

Fashioning the City Paris Fashion and the Media Cover

Based on analysis of fashion writing and images in contemporary French fashion magazines and newspapers, this book shows how the fashion media have been central to the consecration of the city of Paris on the fashion map, as well as its celebration in the collective imaginary.

The American Look Fashion and the Image of Women in 1930s and 1940s New York Cover

From the end of the 1930s through the 1940s, the New York fashion industry came into its own. This book presents an analysis of how New York sportswear evolved to become the definitive American style and how a modern fashion aesthetic was born.

Fashion as Photograph Viewing and Reviewing Images of Fashion Cover

Examines the production and consumption of fashion images from the points of view of industry and academia, the museum, the auction house, and the art gallery. Illustrated in black and white and colour, this book discusses issues in fashion photography and establishes a space for different ways of looking to emerge on this dynamic visual form.

Superheroes Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films Cover

Discusses the slow accretion of comics universes from the thirties onwards, the debate within the conventions of the superhero comic about whether superheroes are a good thing and the discussion within the comics fan community of the extent to which superhero comics are disfigured by misogyny and sexism.