Fashion

Simone Achermann, W.I.R.E., Zurich, Switzerland & Stephan Sigrist, W.I.R.E., Zurich, Switzerland This truly unique guide to the future of clothing examines the implications of recent dramatic shifts in clothing production and function, including automation, wearable technology, sustainability, and blurring gender roles. Academics, entrepreneurs and designers discuss where these technological and societal changes may lead us – predicting everything from an everlasting 'suit for life' to smart clothes that will literally open doors for us and pay our bills. Contributors include Amber Butchart, David de Rothschild, and Yuval Noah Harari. There are also 8 exclusive illustrations by Salvador Dali, depicting the surrealist master’s vision of how clothing might evolve in the 21st century.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 200 pages • 65 colour illus HB 9781350138599 • £20.00 / $27.00 ePub 9781350138605 • £18.00 / $26.09 ePdf 9781350138612 • £18.00 / $26.09 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Edited by Louise Wallenberg, Stockholm University, Sweden & Andrea Kollnitz, Stockholm University, Sweden This timely work explores the relationship between the aesthetics and ethics of fashion from a variety of historical and contemporary perspectives. Covering a wide range of subjects such as fashion’s highly problematic production and consumption practices, the possibility of producing and consuming fashion ethically, as well as fashion’s intimate connection with nature and technology, prominent international scholars from across the humanities and social sciences show how the realities of the global fashion industry have important and pertinent aesthetic and ethical consequences.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 272 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350198524 • £25.99 / $35.95 • HB 9781350198531 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350198555 • £23.39 / $32.96 ePdf 9781350198548 • £23.39 / $32.96 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Dressed in Time

A World View

Margaret Maynard, University of Queensland, Australia Presenting a complete rethinking of the study of global fashion history, this book reveals the complex nature of changing fashion when viewed through the lens of time and challenging Eurocentric approaches such as the periodization of style and the arbitrary division of ‘western’ and ‘non-western’ fashion. Through object-based case studies of garments from the ancient past through to the 21st century, Margaret Maynard reveals the countless ways the temporal is woven into our attire. Dressed in Time is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion and dress history, material culture studies, cultural anthropology, archaeology and related fields.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 280 pages • 71 bw illus PB 9781350032750 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350032743 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350032774 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350032767 • £19.79 / $27.47 Series: Dress, Body, Culture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Dress History of Korea

Critical Perspectives on the Primary Sources

Edited by Kyunghee Pyun & Minjee Kim The indispensable guide to the interpretation of Korean dress brings together key primary sources and contributions from leading experts, among them dress and jewellery historians, as well as specialists of art history and visual culture. Through close analysis of an impressive range of visual, written, and material sources—some newly excavated or recently rediscovered in global museums—the book reveals how Korean clothing and accessories evolved from the Three Kingdoms to the modern era.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 336 pages • 50 color illus HB 9781350143371 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350143395 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350143388 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Memories of Dress

Recollections of Material Identities

Edited by Alison Slater, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Susan Atkin, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK & Elizabeth Kealy-Morris, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Memories of clothing feature prominently in (auto)biographies, yet traditionally they have not been subjected to the same level of academic scrutiny as other sources. Memories of Dress aims to address this imbalance by bringing memories into the centre of a new methodology for understanding fashion and material culture. With examples ranging from gay men’s oral history to Hungarian socialist sewing, readers are invited to consider how nostalgia influences dress practices and how clothing offers ways to maintain or subvert social and cultural groups.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 272 pages • 48 bw illus HB 9781350153790 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350153813 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350153806 • £76.50 / $105.78 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 first 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 June 2023 • US June 2023 • 240 pages • 31 bw illus PB 9781350275508 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350126282 ePub 9781350126305 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350126299 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections • Bloomsbury Visual Arts