Fashion

Aaron Fine, Truman State University, USA Color Theory gives an overview of the history of color theory, providing students with practical guidance on the use of color in art and design. By placing basic tenets of color theory such as the color wheel and color primaries within the Western industrial context that generated them, artist and educator Aaron Fine helps readers connect color choices to color meanings.

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 368 pages • 156 colour and bw illus PB 9781350027305 • £34.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350027275 • £90.00 / $122.00 ePub 9781350027282 • £31.49 / $39.41 ePdf 9781350027268 • £31.49 / $39.41 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Survey of Historic Costume Coloring Book

Bobi Garland, Otis College of Art & Design, Woodbury University, USA & Christina Ingalls, Sony, USA The Survey of Historic Costume Coloring Book highlights Western dress from the ancient world to today through fashion silhouettes. By coloring line drawings that parallel chapters from the Survey of Historic Costume, 7th Edition textbook, students will learn to identify and retain specifi c details that make each historical period’s fashion unique. Each chapter also includes activities and prompts to promote further thinking and creativity, including tasks like drawing and making modern-day connections. Through these dynamic, hands-on exercises, students will develop an understanding of historic costume, increase awareness of world culture, and have fun through this interactive learning medium.

UK September 2021 • US August 2021 • 112 pages • 75 bw illus PB 9781501376092 • £17.99 / $24.95 Fairchild Books

Black Designers in American Fashion

Edited by Elizabeth Way, The Museum at FIT, USA From Elizabeth Keckly’s designs as a freewoman for Abraham Lincoln’s wife to fl amboyant clothing showcased by Patrick Kelly in Paris, black designers have made major contributions to American fashion. However, many of their achievements have gone unrecognized. Black Designers in American Fashion uses previously unexplored sources, inspired by the award-winning exhibition at the Museum at FIT, to show how black designers helped build America’s global fashion reputation. Interweaving fashion design and American cultural history, this book fi lls critical gaps in the history of fashion and offers insights to students of fashion, design, and American and African American history and culture.

UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 288 pages • 61 color illus PB 9781350138476 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350138469 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350138490 • £22.49 / $28.32 ePdf 9781350138483 • £22.49 / $28.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Freak to Chic

'Gay' Men in and out of Fashion after Oscar Wilde

Dominic Janes, Professor of Modern History at Keele University, UK In this unique intervention into the history of gay culture, Dominic Janes highlights that under the gaze of social conservatism, gay culture was hiding in plain sight. Inspired by the legacies of Oscar Wilde and pre-war Cecil Beaton, interwar and later 20th-century gay men expressed transgressive desires in veiled visual forms and made major contributions to the histories of art, design, fashion, sexuality and celebrity. Janes reinterprets the origins of gay and queer cultures and establishes a framework for future analyses of other cities and media and of the role of women and trans identities.

UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 304 pages • 70 bw illus HB 9781350172609 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350172623 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350172616 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Danger in the Path of Chic

Violence in Fashion between the Wars

Lucy Moyse Ferreira, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to seemingly torturous techniques and devices advertised by beauty imagery, even extending to garments designed to look assaulted and destroyed. This book brings this disturbing imagery to light for the fi rst time, proposing new directions for historians of fashion, violence and culture in the interwar years. Danger in the Path of Chic situates fashion within the social, psychological, economic and political traumas of the period.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 240 pages • 35 bw illus HB 9781350126282 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350126305 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350126299 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Clothing in 17th-Century Provincial England

Danae Tankard, University of Chichester, UK Providing a detailed analysis of 17th-century provincial clothing culture, this book draws on previously unexploited sources and provides an intimate and nuanced portrait of people and their clothes. Using Sussex as a case study, it illuminates early modern ideas about clothing, the individual and society, the relationship between London and the provinces, and the causes and consequences of conspicuous consumption. Covering the clothing of the poor, ‘middle’ and ‘upper’ sorts, this is a new window onto early modern clothing experiences.

UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 280 pages • 44 bw illus PB 9781350227583 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350098404 ePub 9781350098411 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350098428 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Visual Arts World English