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Fashion: Books

Here you can find some useful books if you are studying an HE course in Fashion.

The Key books sections shows some books that will be useful for your course and New books shows some of the recent additions to our collection. Click on them to see them in the catalogue to find out more details about them or see if they are available to borrow.

These aren't all the books in the Library,  if you are interested in something else you can use the catalogue  to search  for what your are interested in. The books are arranged in the Library using Dewey Decimal Classification. This is a number sequence from 000-999, with each subject having it own number, so all the book on the same subject should be near each other.  See below for the important numbers for Fashion.

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key print books

Decades - a century of fashion

Decades - a century of fashion

Shelfmark:

 

391.00721 KAW

Dress Detective

Dress Detective

Shelfmark:

 

391.00721 MID

Denim

Denim

Shelfmark:

 

391.009/MAC

80's fashion - from club to catwalk

80's fashion - from club to catwalk

Shelfmark:

 

391.009048 STA

Sewing techniques

Sewing techniques

Shelfmark:

 

646.2 PRE

Fashion Pattern Cutting

Fashion Pattern Cutting

Shelfmark:

 

646.4072 ZAM

Fashion Sewing

Fashion Sewing

Shelfmark:

 

646.4/AMA

Sustainable Fashion

Shelfmark:

 

746.92/FAR

Reigning Men

Reigning Men

Shelfmark:

 

746.920811 REI

Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen

Shelfmark:

 

746.92092/MAC

Fifty Fashion Designers that changed the world

Fifty Fashion Designers that changed the world

Shelfmark:

 

746.920922/COC

Fashion Africa

Fashion Africa

Shelfmark:

 

746.92096 SHA

New books in stock

Practices of looking

Practices of looking

Shelfmark:

 

302.2 STU

The international politics of fashion

The international politics of fashion

Shelfmark:

 

320.01 BEH

Clothing as material culture

Clothing as material culture

Shelfmark:

 

391 KUC

Fashion-ology

Fashion-ology

Shelfmark:

 

391.001 KAW

Material strategies

Material strategies

Shelfmark:

 

391.00721 BRU

Doing research in fashion and dress

Doing research in fashion and dress

Shelfmark:

 

391.00721 KAW

Confabulations

Confabulations

Shelfmark:

 

709.2 BER

Christian Dior

Christian Dior

Shelfmark:

 

746.92092 DIO

Japanese Fashion designers

Japanese Fashion designers

Shelfmark:

 

746.920922 ENG

100 Contemporary fashion designers

100 Contemporary fashion designers

Shelfmark:

 

746.920922 ONE

London couture 1923-75

London couture 1923-75

Shelfmark:

 

746.920942 EHR

The Collage Ideas book

Shelfmark:

 

751.793 MOO

House of worth

House of Worth

Shelfmark:

 

746.920944 HOU

Useful e-books

Adorned in dreams fashion and modernity
Adornment
Black looks
Bodies that matter on the discursive limits of
The dangers of fashion
Doing Research in Fashion and Dress
Fashion & sustainability
Fashion and cultural studies
Fashion and psychoanalysis
Fashion, culture, and identity
Fashion design : a guide to the industry and the creative process
The fundamentals of fashion design
Men, masculinity, and the media
Modest fashion
The most beautiful job in the world
New mythologies in design and culture
A practical guide to sustainable fashion
Queering the subversive stitch : men and the culture of needlework
Rethinking fashion globalization
Stitching the self : identity and the needle arts
Sustainable fashion and textiles
Sustainability and the social fabric

Finding books in the Library

These are the main shelf marks numbers for books on Fashion

If you are unsure where to find a specific title you can always ask at the Library Information Desk  or search the Library Catalogue. 

Shelf Mark

Subject

111.85 +  701.18 Aesthetics
302 Communication/Semiotics
306 Culture
391 Costumes
391.4 Shoes and accessories
391.5 Hair Fashion
391.6 Body Art
646.4 Sewing
700.904 + 306 Postmodernism
701.85 Colour in Art & Design
709 Art History
709.0349 Art Nouveau
709.04 Modernism
709.04012 Art Deco
741.672 Fashion Illustration
745 Decorative Arts
745.2 Product Design
745.4 Design elements
746 Textiles
746.92 Fashion Design
746.92092 Fashion Designers
778.99391 + 779.9391 Fashion Photography