Knitting and crochet have long been considered forms of folk art, but in the 21st century, these time-honoured crafts are breaking away from the outdated stereotype of cosy domesticity.

The warp-faced weaves of the Andes are the most complex in the world, with up to eight warp levels.

Witty, playful, and effortlessly chic, Inge Morath: On Style reveals the vital forms of fashion and self-expression that blossomed into existence in England, France, and the United States in the postwar decades.

Ein Harnisch der Renaissance diente einst nicht alleine dem Schutz in Kampf und Turnier.

An unprecedented volume of photography from the Condé Nast Archive, illustrating the history, art, and fashion of their famous magazine brands

In the late summer of 1981, a group of women walked from Cardiff, Wales for over a hundred miles carrying a hand-made banner proclaiming their protest against nuclear missiles.

House flags are a mix of striking, abstract designs and charming, hand\\\-sewn motifs and were flown on boats of all sizes from

Die Zukunft der Mode beruht auf der regenerativen Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen und der Wiederbelebung des Handwerks im globalen Süden.

The significance of Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970) as a central figure in Scandinavian modernism has only recently been acknowledged on an international scale.

This first issue of II Magazine explores how publishing can become a performative act.

Slow Costuming delves into a comprehensive approach to costume design, emphasizing on the synergy between all elements involved in the crafting process of a performance.

„Prime Suspect“ ist die erste internationale Überblicksschau der schottischen Künstlerin Lucy McKenzie (*1977), die im Museum Brandhorst eine Auswahl bedeutender Werke aus allen wichtigen Werkgruppen von 1997 bis heute präsentiert.

Celebrates the revival of weaving with works by influential and contemporary weavers from around the world - An inspiring book for lovers of textiles, interiors and design.

The Big Picture is the first major monograph dedicated to Arthur Elgort, one of the most influential fashion photographers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Lavishly illustrated, this book presents comprehensive entries for each of the tapestries in the Burrell Collection New research by an international team of experts details how, where, when and why these tapestries were made.

Von der Jahrhundertwende bis in die 1970er-Jahre war die Musterwalze ein beliebtes Werkzeug für die Wandgestaltung in Innenräumen.

In der Sonderpräsentation „Die Vermählung“ in der Kunstkammer des Kunsthistorischen Museums können Besucher:innen Schmuckstücke der österreichischen Schmuckkünstlerin

Eine der ältesten Formen chinesischen Volksglaubens erweist sich als lebendiger Brauch, der überall in der Kultur Chinas praktiziert wird:

Chris Moore is the undisputed king of catwalk photography. His six-decade career includes images of all the iconic catwalk shows because he was at them all. This is the ultimate and only edit of Moore's work throughout his career and covering the changing face of the catwalk. Covering each of the decades images

Jérôme Chazeix's publication focuses on the participatory practice and the use of textile. Chazeix's work of the last years are contemporary syntheses of the arts («Gesamtkunstwerke») in the combination of different media and their cross-references.

Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers,

Visual artist Diana Scherer (1971, DE) is one of the pioneers in bio tech art. Scherer lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she studied fine art at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Her work comprises botany, installations, textile and biotechnology.

Headdresses and head coverings are among the most powerful vehicles of cultural identity, referring variously to nationality, subculture, gender, ethnicity, religion, and profession. Yet cultural identity is also continuously evolving. “Hybrid Heads” is a project by Daniela Dossi and the open collective studio Manoeuvre,

"body to book” is an upcycling project that explores the relationship between the human body and books. It comprises six sculptures assembled from coat fragments and books, each covering a naked body.

“What happens,” asks Luis Felipe Fabre, “to the body dressed in Sánchez-Kane?”

Erika Hirose is a miso brewer based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

An encyclopedic guide featuring over seventy established, emerging, and innovative production techniques and over sixty materials used in textile and fashion design
To be truly prized and employable, textile and fashion

The first book to showcase and critically explore the groundbreaking photography of fashion magazines over the last century.

Zero Waste Fashion Design combines research and practice to introduce a crucial sustainable fashion design approach. Written by two industry leading pioneers, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan, the book offers flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting edge fashion designs.

While the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century diminished the role of the craftsperson in the manufacturing process, the digital revolution has had a less devastating effect. Today’s digital technologies have given rise to entirely new working methods, skill sets, and consumer products that don’t eliminate, but enrich traditional hand techniques.

Rehearsal in Progress, a film made by René Scheibenbauer in collaboration with movement director and dancer Lydia Walker, showcases Scheibenbauer’s collection (in) Motion as well as embodying the essential vocabulary of the brand more broadly. Walker’s choreography introduces new inspirations, the work of Alexandra Bachzetsis and Vincent Dunoyer, whilst sharing in

Fashion is often seen as an industry of eccentric personalities and unique, exceptional talents but it's the collaborators, rather than the individuals, who underpin the industry and inspire this book. This stylish volume, compiled by Lou Stoppard, editor-at-large of London's SHOWstudio, delves into the behind-the-scenes worlds of the fashion industry s most intriguing partnerships to explore what, exactly,

Neu - Ein Streifzug durch rund 500 Jahre Modegeschichte im Spiegel der Kunst: Wie haben Künstler auf extreme Erscheinungen wie Schlitzmode,

Soft Edges, Draw Close presents a body of work by Euphrosyne Andrews that explores how materials and

Im minimalsten Raum zwischen Haut und Kleid lauern essenzielle Fragen.

How does clothing 'work' socially? Combines images and notes by the artist with sources of inspiration from film, art, literature and philosophy

X is an annual magazine focusing on visual culture and experimental literature: a collective artwork, a material flow of reality that eludes any prediction. X freezes on paper the power of contemporary art and writing, welcoming with joy the delirum of participating in such pursuits. Pain, battles, sequences of errors, vanished memories and unwanted prophecies; X is born because we can still be against everything and also against ourselves.

Bandra Sentimental, the new photography book on the block, documents style on the streets of Mumbai.

Edited by Eric Troncy and Stéphanie Moisdon, Frog is an international art and architecture magazine. Published in October 2016 this issue features: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jim Shaw, Alex Israel / Bret Easton Ellis, Christian Rosa, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Sarah Lucas, Ugo

Dame of the British Empire Vivienne Westwood is best known for her provocative SEX/Seditionaries boutique on Kings Road, and then perhaps her runway shows.

die publikation zeigt neue werkgruppen von g. b. in den love seats sitzen wir auf einem möbelobjekt & blicken aneinander vorbei. textilbilder & stickereien zeigen kisses in form von lippen ohne person.

Patricia L. Boyd’s book “Ceiling Blues” borrows its format from fabric sample books. It contains photographed fragments of frottages,

Natasza Niedziółka’s fascinating works move along the interface between painting, drawing, and textile art. The canvas constitutes the carrier for her abstract, haptic embroideries.

'Blending the heraldic with the optical, August Krogan-Roley’s Empty Coats each present themselves as a pictorial game.

The motifs produced during time-intensive dyeing processes – which uses indigo, urine, and extracts of natural waste materials – are neither conventional fabric nor lace patterns, and they have only a distant relationship to batik painting. Yet, they are simulations and portraits of both.

Schweizer Möbeldesign / Mobilier Suisse 1927-1984 is a comprehensive survey of Swiss furniture design from the late 1920s to the early 1980s. Edited by Gilbert Frey, the volume documents key developments in Swiss modern and post-war furniture with a bilingual German/French text and extensive visual documentation. It covers seminal designers and movements in Swiss applied arts and industrial design, situating them in the broader context of European design history. The book features numerous illustrations — including photographs and technical drawings — to trace the evolution of form, material, and function in Swiss furniture.

Auf der Suche nach dem Verlorenen. Der international bekannte Modefotograf Alexander Gnädinger widmete sich in den letzten 2 Jahren einem freien Projekt, um ein Gegengewicht zu seiner kommerziellen Arbeit zu schaffen. Extrem stilisierte, ästhetisch verdichtete Bilder, wie sie z.B. seit Jahren für seinen Kunden Adidas entstehen, sind sein Markenzeichen.

Charles Fréger has photographed a series of portraits of Breton women wearing costumes and headdresses of endless variety: from high starched towers to elaborately pinned, tucked and embroidered confections of handmade lace, as delicate as they are distinctive.

First book dedicated to Casilli's decade-defining entertainment portraits.

Guy Bourdin was a groundbreaking image-maker and undoubtedly one of the most influential fashion photographers of the twentieth century. Intriguing and revolutionary, his work has achieved a cult-like following; the striking use of color, suggestive narratives, and surrealist aesthetics establishing a visual language all his own.

Während seiner 40-jährigen Karriere porträtierte der schottische Fotograf unzählige Film-, Rock- und Politstars für Magazine, schuf Reportagestrecken und fotografierte mehr als 250 Titel für die Mode-Bibel Vogue.

In the 17th issue of zweikommasieben something that has been apparent from the beginning of the magazine—whose credo is to study the present—only seems increasingly true: in the supposed present, temporalities overlap and intersect. They burst out, reaching at once backwards and forwards.

Can corporate history be art? This question can only be asked if one is not familiar with the fascinating long-term project by the Chinese artist Xiaowen Zhu. Anyone who has experienced Oriental Silk will answer this question with a clear “yes.” The project’s title is also the name of a company founded in Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

A number of contributions in the new issue of zweikommasieben relate to the past in some shape or form, and they conjure it in different ways.

A very personal choice of art, cinema and fashion. nspired by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc’s Blaue Reiter Almanac that, in 1912, brought together without hierarchy contemporary art works and works of folk art, Puits d’amour offers one possible vision of the best of 2016 in various creative fields. The affection I have for them is the only link between the collected works.

This publication is based on a lecture delivered by Elise By Olsen at Elisava School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona in June 2019.

The first comprehensive study of Knoll's innovative textile designs and the company's role within the history of interior design In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Florence Schust joined the firm and helped establish its interior design division, the Knoll Planning Unit. In 1947, the year after their marriage, Hans and Florence Knoll

Lee Friedlander is one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. Through Friedlander’s lens, people in their everyday environments are transformed into arresting portraits, and the banal features of roadsides, storefronts, and city streets become vivid scenery. In Dressing Up, Friedlander ventures into new territory, turning his eye to the rarefied world of fashion and revealing precisely what is commonplace about it: behind the glamorous spectacle of the runway are many people hard at work.

Als "Nothing Personal", das gemeinsame Buchprojekt der Schulfreunde Richard Avedon und James Baldwin 1964 erschien, stellte es die Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft des Publikums, Mehrdeutigkeiten und Widersprüche auszuhalten, auf eine zu harte Probe.

Kreatives Schmuckdesign jenseits von Luxus und Pomp. Schmuck ist im Trend. Ob Glamour, Gothic, Pop oder Minimalismus rund um eines der ältesten und immer wieder innovativsten Kulturgüter der Welt finden sich derzeit viele ungewöhnliche Entwürfe, Materialien und Gestalter.