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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · 9d

Available now in paperback!

Becky Peterson broadens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between fabric and film.

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · 17d

Out now!

Follow 25 fashion entrepreneurs' journeys of self-expression, identity formation and resistance in creating their own brands that challenge heteronormativity.

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Jul 24

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.

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Jul 17

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!

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Jul 14

Until midnight (GMT) Sunday 20thJuly, get up to 30% off across our range of fashion books on Bloomsbury.com.

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Jul 1

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! 👀

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Jun 27

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!

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Jun 13

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!
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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · May 23

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

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · May 8

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

Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Apr 24

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

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Mar 21

"The quilts and fabrics embroidered by Hmong women were assembled mostly from scraps and discarded cloth. The resulting works of art tell the ineffable struggles inherent in migration, as well as celebrate the companionship and mutual comfort among the women who created them."

Inside spread from Islamicate Textiles, featuring text, a piece of fabric from Indonesia showing images of a bomber plane, and an embroidered panel created by Hmong women documenting the life they left behind when they were forced to leave their home.

Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Mar 21

"Tents were integral to the Mughals in India, Ottoman Turks, and the Safavids and Qajars of Persia. As symbols of authority, wealth and power, royal tents would have been palatial in size and their interiors and ceilings elaborately decorated."

Inside spread from Islamicate Textiles, featuring text and a piece of hand-embroidered appliqued panel in an elaborate geometrical pattern.

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Mar 21

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

Book cover for Islamicate Textiles by Faegheh Shirazi, featuring a colourful collage of various fabrics, embroidery and patterns.

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Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social · Mar 11

Tonight - still time to sign up!

Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social · Mar 4

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...

In Conversation: Shoes and the Georgian Man

Serena Dyer talks with Matthew McCormack about his new book, Shoes and the Georgian Man, published by Bloomsbury in January 2025.

www.eventbrite.com

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Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social · Mar 4

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...

In Conversation: Shoes and the Georgian Man

Serena Dyer talks with Matthew McCormack about his new book, Shoes and the Georgian Man, published by Bloomsbury in January 2025.

www.eventbrite.com

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Feb 28

"The conflict existing within the fashion world between the fascist valorization of the 'local' and the desire for more glamorous designs is but one of the many clashes that undercut and ultimately destabilized fascist policies."

Inside spread from Fashion under Fascism, featuring an archival image from La Donna magazine.

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Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Feb 28

"The Duce himself considered fashion not only as a fundamental component of the Italian economy, but also as a powerful vehicle for the projection, both domestically and abroad, of an image of a 'new Italy' and 'new Italians'."

Inside spread from Fashion under Fascism, featuring magazine shoots of knitwear models.

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