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The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
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The Beautiful Fall

By Alicia Drake ,

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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
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Queen of Fashion

By Caroline Weber ,

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Great War Fashion: Tales from the History Wardrobe
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Great War Fashion

By Lucy Adlington , L.J. Adlington ,

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Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory
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Sweatshop Warriors

By Miriam Ching Yoon Louie ,

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To Die for: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World?
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To Die for

By Lucy Siegle ,

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Slave to Fashion
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Slave to Fashion

By Safia Minney ,

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D.V.
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D.V.

By Diana Vreeland ,

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Fashion Metropolis Berlin 1836 - 1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry
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Fashion Metropolis Berlin 1836 - 1939

By Uwe Westphal ,

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Sexing La Mode: Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France
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Sexing La Mode

By Jennifer M. Jones ,

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Fashion in the French Revolution
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Fashion in the French Revolution

By Aileen Ribeiro ,

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The Ten: The Stories Behind the Fashion Chassis
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The Ten

By Lauren Cochrane ,

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Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan
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Khartoum at Night

By Marie Grace Brown ,

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Fashion History from the 18th to the 20th Century
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Fashion History from the 18th to the 20th Century

By Taschen ,

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How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century
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How to Read a Dress

By Lydia Edwards ,

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Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present
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Fashion Victims

By Alison Matthews David ,

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Underwear: Fashion in Detail
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Underwear

By Eleri Lynn ,

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Jean Paul Gaultier
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Jean Paul Gaultier

By Colin McDowell ,

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Irreverent
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Irreverent

By Carine Roitfeld ,

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Buffalo
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Buffalo

By Ray Petri ,

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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish
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The Lost Art of Dress

By Linda Przybyszewski ,

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Erté Graphics
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Erté Graphics

By Erté ,

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How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
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How to Murder Your Life

By Cat Marnell ,

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Make Thrift Mend: Stitch, Patch, Darn, Plant-Dye & Love Your Wardrobe
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Make Thrift Mend

By Katrina Rodabaugh ,

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Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress
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Sex and Suits

By Anne Hollander ,

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The Fashion System
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The Fashion System

By Roland Barthes , Matthew Ward (translator) , Richard Howard (translator)

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Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational Body
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Consuming Fashion

By Anne Brydon (editor) , Sandra Niessen (editor) ,

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Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War
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Fashion on the Ration

By Julie Summers ,

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Seven Sisters Style: The All-American Preppy Look
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Seven Sisters Style

By Rebecca C. Tuite ,

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Worn: A People's History of Clothing
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Worn

By Sofi Thanhauser ,

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Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
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Spacesuit

By Nicholas de Monchaux ,

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Vogue 100: A Century of Style
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Vogue 100

By Robin Muir ,

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Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink
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Dress Code

By Veronique Hyland ,

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Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion
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Champagne Supernovas

By Maureen Callahan ,

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Worn in New York: 68 Sartorial Memoirs of the City
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Worn in New York

By Emily Spivack ,

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Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism
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Dressed for Freedom

By Einav Rabinovitch-Fox ,

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The Givenchy Style
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The Givenchy Style

By Francoise Mohrt ,

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Avedon Fashion 1944-2000
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Avedon Fashion 1944-2000

By Richard Avedon , Carol Squires , Vincent Aletti

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Fashion Criticism: An Anthology
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Fashion Criticism

By Francesca Granata (editor) ,

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When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
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When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

By Julie Satow ,

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