From the grit of workwear to the swagger of streetwear, and from bold design experiments to the untold stories of legendary stores, these new releases offer inspiration for every enthusiast.
An Informal Guide to Workwear: Form, function and fashion
Workwear has transcended its utilitarian roots to become a staple in modern wardrobes. Originally designed for labour-intensive jobs, today’s workwear blends durable, well-made and sustainable clothing with fashion.
In a world of increasingly fast fashion, workwear provides a sustainable alternative as a statement of endurance and quality. An Informal Guide to Workwear explores the links to the past and the incredible history of how this style became a staple.
Hardcover, 144 pages
https://www.batsfordbooks.com/book/an-informal-guide-to-workwear
Jean Genius: Repair, Reimagine & Repurpose Your Denim
Give new life to your favorite jeans with these simple techniques and inventive designs: repair, restyle, reimagine – and experiment with these genius denim upcycling projects.
Discover that satisfying feeling of turning something old into something new with this practical book from denim expert Janelle Hanna. Teaching sewers of all levels a range of genius jean repair, repurpose and restyling skills, Janelle’s designs will show you how to breathe new life into good denim.
Hardcover, 160 pages
Hiroshi Fujiwara: Fragment #3
Fujiwara is recognized the world over as a pioneer in streetwear, music, and art, and the ultimate arbiter of cool. Known internationally as one of the founding fathers of the 1990s Ura-Harajuku scene, Fujiwara exerts a disproportionate influence over contemporary design culture. With recent collaborations from Fendi to Maserati and with his mainstay work at Nike, Nintendo, and Moncler and Medicom, Fujiwara refines an aesthetic immersed in punk, hip-hop, anime, and skate culture and translates it into pure luxury.
Hardcover, 256 pages
The Nature of Fashion
“One of our favorite reads of 2025.” Dressed: History of Fashion Podcast
Named one of the best fashion books of 2025 by Fashionista
If plants have shaped fashion’s past, couldn’t they hold the secret to its future? Vivid, celebratory, impassioned and angry, The Nature of Fashion is an epic sweep through the history of how we learned to create clothing with plants, revealing how textiles have transformed the human world and our natural landscape.
More than just a story about plant-based fashion, The Nature of Fashion chronicles the plant stewards, obsessives, innovators and profiteers who have shaped what we wear. It is about the clash of worlds, voracious exploitation and silenced voices; about devotion, passion, blindness, idealism, greed and how clothing has separated us from nature.
Hardcover, 304
They All Came to Barneys: A Personal History of the World’s Greatest Store NES Music: Harmony, Form, and the Art of Technological Constraint
During the greatest, most exciting years in the world’s greatest, most exciting city, Barneys New York was a place where fashion made culture and made history.
From its humble beginnings as a discount shop on Seventh Avenue, Barneys grew into an international phenomenon, setting the tone for fashion not only in New York, but across the country and worldwide. Told with razor-sharp wit and inimitable style, They All Came to Barneys takes us on an insider’s journey as rakish, would-be rocker Gene Pressman and the global fashion industry grew up and came into their own, side by side.
Hardcover, 400 pages
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726147/they-all-came-to-barneys-by-gene-pressman
Bigger Than Fashion
The kaleidoscopic story of how an underground American subculture reshaped the global fashion industry.
The world now calls it “streetwear.” This is the story of how this fiercely guarded counterculture launched a lifestyle and fashion movement that has endured for nearly fifty years. It was born out of the undergrounds of American culture—a unique fusion of graffiti, hip-hop, surf, skate, and punk. These designers and brand operators established a creative tradition and cottage industry that they could call their own. It was a provocation of art and fashion, exclusivity and commerce that forever challenged the by-the-book definitions of artist, designer, and entrepreneur.
Hardcover, 352 pages
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bigger-Than-Fashion/Tyler-Watamanuk/9781982182861
