1000 Dessous
Gilles Neret
This softcover book has very little text and lots of fantastic photographs which tell the history or timeline of women's lingerie. Full of B&W and color photographs, illustrations, designs, ads, and glamour shots. A great gift for lingerie lovers. A Reader Review.
Beneath It All
Farid Chenoune, Farid Chenoline
In this eye-opening celebration, gorgeous photgraphs from the world of la seduction francaise, including movies, advertisements, fashion shoots, and revealing images of the most renowned beauties and cultural icons of the century Book Description.
Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed
Harold Koda, Philippe de Montebello
High-heeled shoes, push-up bras, Elizabethan ruffs and Japanese platform clogs are just a few examples of clothing that has pushed and pulled the human form into new shapes in the last few centuries. With color photos and illustrations, Extreme Beauty Publishers Weekly.
Fetish and Fashion
Robert Giesbeck
The Most Exciting Images of the Very Different Kind of Fashion
Fetish Fashion: Undressing the Corset
Larry Utley,
This book is a visual feast! I love the models; the editors picked a variety of models in many different shapes, sizes, genders, and ages. Many different corset styles come to life on these pages. A Reader Review.
Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power
Valerie Steele
Because this is Valerie Steele's second book on the topic of fetishistic clothing, her opening statements that she is an outsider to the paraphilias and perversions that she discusses seems a bit hollow. Amazon.com
Latex and Lingerie
Merl Storr
Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties. Sexy, hedonistic, hilarious - Ann Summers parties are the ultimate girls' night in. Promising the perfect antidote to the toils of everyday life - sexual pleasure - they are the 'naughty but nice' version of the classic Tupperware(R) party. Ann Summers parties are incredibly popular, with around 4000 parties held in Britain every week. Synopsis
Lingerie: A History &Celebration of Silks, Satins, Laces, Linens &Other Bare Essentials
Catherine Bardey, Zeva Oelbaum
The retrospective of lingerie through the ages offers the admirer and wearer fashion tips by example for making these bare essentials look great so you can feel great. Lingerie is part icon, part turn-on, and an international symbol of feminine mystique. Book Description.
Lingerie: A Lexicon of Style
Caroline Cox
Written by cultural historian and fashion academic Caroline Cox, Lingerie: A Lexicon of Style explores the fetish and fun of underwear, referring to influential designers, historical trends, and other factors that continue to shape how we perceive and wear lingerie. Book Description.
Making Latex Clothes
Sian-Kate Mooney
A unique book on the secrets of making latex clothes. Ever increasing in popularity with fashion designers and film and theatre costumiers as well as the fetish market, latex clothing is a growing industry. This is the first practical book that shows dressmakers how to make the most of this innovative material by a leading maker of latex clothes. Synopsis
Radical Fashion
Claire Wilcox
Three major trends currently dominate international fashion: the invasion of Paris couture houses by hip British designers; the creation of highly conceptual collections by austere European minimalists; and the near-architectural construction of contemporary Japanese clothes. Book Description.
Rubber!: Fun, Fashion, Fetish
Janet Bloor and John D. Sinclair
Rubber is fun. Rubber is useful. Rubber has fetishistic appeal. Bouncy, stretchy, naughty, squeaky, biodegradeable and renewable, rubber has not only been used for a multitude of everyday objects - tyres, wires, handles of pliers - but has also paved the way for a multitude of advances in design, technology and lifestyle. Synopsis
Silver: From Fetish to Fashion
Daniel Nadler and Serga Nadler
The Beauty of Fetish
Steve Diet Goedde
Following the sensational success of The Beauty of Fetish (Edition Stemmle, 1998), this long-awaited sequel is now available, providing a survey of Steve Diet Goedde's work since then. This Los Angeles-based photographer goes against the traditional cliches of erotic photography by surveying the sensual appeal of fetishism instead of the usual nude landscapes. Synopsis
The Corset: A Cultural History
Valerie Steele
For 400 years, women wore corsets that controlled their shape and constricted, and sometimes crushed, their ribs and organs. In the 18th century, "tight-lacing" was a common phenomenon, but in the 19th century, technology allowed for more effective corsetry. Publishers Weekly.
Thierry Mugler: Fashion, Fetish, Fantasy
Claude Deloffre, Marylou Luther
When Thierry Mugler launched his perfume Angel, its logo was an off-centre star. It's a telling choice. At first glance, his designs seem like a 1970s version of space-age, lots of pointy spears, big shoulders and gravity- defying basques, all in his shimmering "classic" materials, vinyl and leather. Amazon
Uplift: The Bra in America
Jane Farrell-Beck, Colleen Gau
In the 1890s, mail-order "bust girdle" advertisements were discreetly hidden in the back pages of women's magazines; by 1918, bras were a major staple of the fashion industry, with 52 different brands prominently displayed in department stores. Publishers Weekly.
