Buchhandlung Walther König

Women Dressing Women

Exploring the enduring impact of fashions created by and for women, this book traces a historical and conceptual lineage across more than 70 female designers- from unidentified dressmakers in eigh ...

Mood of the Moment: Aghion & Chloé

As imagined by the company's founder, Gaby Aghion (1921-2014), the sophisticated, romantic, and glamorous designs of Chloé have captured the energy and aspirations of generations of women since A ...

Abloh: Figures of Speech

This authoritative Virgil Abloh compendium, created by the designer himself and now back in print, accompanies his acclaimed landmark 2019-23 touring exhibition and offers in-depth analysis of his ...

Kimono Style: Edo Traditions to Modern Design

Though often presented as an unchanging, traditional costume in the West, the Japanese kimono dynamically evolved from the Edo period to the modern age. This publication explores the kimono's fasc ...

In America: A Lexicon of Fashion

Articulating eight decades of American style through the emotive language of clothing - from celebrated designers that established the modern legacy of sportswear to emerging creatives shaping the ...

Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art

How artists have used clothing as a sculptural medium and a tool to explore gender, performance and more, from Louise Bourgeois to Andrea Zittel.

Reinvention & Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties

Gut 20 Jahre sind die 90er erst her, und schon mehrere Revivals haben sie wiederbelebt. Dieser definitive Bildband, herausgegeben zu einer Ausstellung des Museums im New Yorker Fashion Institute o ...

Dior: Designer of Dreams

Published on the occasion of the retrospective staged at the Brooklyn Museum, this new title chronicles the history of the House of Dior from 1947, when Chris-tian Dior heralded the birth of a new ...

About Time: Fashion & Duration

"About Time: Fashion and Duration" is published in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's founding and features a timeline of iconic fashions dating from 1870 to ...

Willi Smith: Street Couture

African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work.

Mitchell: I Can Make You Feel Good

Der erste Photoband zum Werk einem der derzeit gefragtesten jungen Modephotographen mit Bildern vom Start seiner Karriere bis zu aktuellen Aufnahmen.

In Pursuit of Fashion: Schreier Collection

This handsome volume explores the modern discipline of fashion collecting, presenting remarkable works from one of the greatest private collection of 20th-century costume.

French Fashion, Women, and the First World War

This fascinating exploration of French women s fashion during World War I is the first in-depth consideration of the role that fashion played in the upheaval of French society between 1914 and 191 ...

Power Mode: Fashion & Textile History Gallery

"Power Mode" will explore the role fashion plays in establishing, reinforcing, and challenging power dynamics within society.

Paris, Capital of Fashion

"Paris, Capital of Fashion" accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York's only museum dedicated solely to fashion. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator at the FIT traces ho ...

Exhibitionism: 50 Years of the Museum at FIT

A book that celebrates the 50th anniversary in 2019 of "the most fashionable museum in New York City".

Frida Kahlo Stilikone *

Die Sorgfalt, mit der Frida Kahlo als Künstlerin ihr Innenleben auf die Leinwand bannte, ist auch in ihrer Selbstinszenierung zu erkennen: Zeitgenössische Fotografien zeigen sie in bunter mexika ...

Frida's Kahlo: Making Herself Up

This exhibition will present an extraordinary collection of personal artefacts and clothing belonging to the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Locked away for 50 years after her death, this colle ...

Heavenly Bodies - 2 vols

Exploring fashion's complex and often controversial relationship with Catholicism, "Heavenly Bodies" probes what dress reveals about the state of religion and spirituality within contemporary cult ...

Walk This Way: Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes

Stuart Weitzman is best known for his elegant and innovative shoe designs, employing rare materials and unexpected constructions. Weitzman's passion for footwear extends to collecting exceptional ...

Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garcons

A revelatory look at the influential and enigmatic designer behind Comme des Garçons.

Items: Is Fashion Modern?

An encyclopaedic selection of 111 garments, footwear, and accessories - from humble masterpieces to high fashion - that have had a strong impact on society in the 20th and 21st centuries and conti ...

Denim: Fashion's Frontier

A wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated history of the fashion associated with the world's most ubiquitous fabric.

Fairy Tale Fashion

A conceptually innovative and visually stunning investigation of the interconnected worlds of high fashion and fairy tales.