The great Japanese couturier, who once said that he never finished a garment - it was only complete when it had been worn for several years. His pioneering style was modern, functional yet l... read more
The Belgian designer must have used many kilometres of silk jersey since she first created her hallmark wrap dress in 1972. Many illustrations; to accompany an exhibition at the Brussels Fas... read more
Large-format volume of photos and ephemera of YSL and his world, from 1989 to his last collection in 2002. By a renowned photographer who, as the son of YSL's right-hand woman, had unparalle... read more
'Please bring no clothes: we live in a state of utmost simplicity': so wrote Virginia Woolf to T.S. Eliot in 1920. Porter looks at the Bloomsbury group through their clothes - their creativi... read more
Off-beat and highly polished images from Christie's archive, mostly taken in his halcyon years at British Vogue in the 1970s. His saturated colours, rich monotones and uncluttered compositi... read more
A splendid jollification: Liberty prints take on Futurist and Vorticist designs in a spectacular collaboration with Federico Forquet, the Italian couturier and designer who began his career ... read more
A facsimile of an album of samples of English fabrics, with notes and essays by several contributors. The album takes its name from its compiler, John Holker ( 1719-1786), a Jacobite who esc... read more