📚 Costume Design

Books with costume design on their catalogue record, first published between 1938 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject costume design in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,811 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Fashion Theory	Malcolm Barnard	2014	18
	Costumes for the stage	Sheila Jackson	1978	13
	Yves Saint Laurent	Yves Saint Laurent	1983	11
	Inside fashion design	Sharon Lee Tate	1977	10
	Kostumschnitte und Gewandformen	Max Tilke	1956	7
	Stage costumes and how to make them	Julia Tompkins	1969	7
	Jane Asher's fancy dress	Jane Asher	1983	7
	Vivienne Westwood	Jane Mulvagh	1998	7
	Fashion-ology	Yuniya Kawamura	2004	7
	Draping for fashion design	Hilde Jaffe	1973	6
	The art of fashion draping	Connie Amaden-Crawford	1989	6
	The great fashion designers	Brenda Polan	2009	6
	Fabric for Fashion	Clive Hallett	2010	6
	Fashion Designers A-Z	Valerie Steele	2012	6
	Fashion is spinach	Elizabeth Hawes	1938	5
	Costume selection	Harriet Tilden McJimsey	1956	4
	Fashion Design and Illustration	John M. Turnpenny	1981	4
	Directory of twentieth century fashion	Colin McDowell	1984	4
	Encyclopedia of fashion details	Patrick John Ireland	1987	4
	Visionaries	Susannah Frankel	2001	4
	Art deco fashion	Suzanne Lussier	2003	4
	Historic costumes and how to make them	Mary Fernald	2006	4
	Vintage T-Shirts	Lisa Kidner	2006	4
	Adobe Illustrator for Fashion Design	Susan Lazear	2007	4
	Fashion 101	Erika Stalder	2008	4
	Pattern-Drafting for Fashion	Teresa Gilewska	2011	4
	Alexander McQueen	Judith Watt	2012	4
	Fashion Forward	Chelsea Rousso	2012	4
	Fashion Thinking	Fiona Dieffenbacher	2013	4
	How to Be a Fashion Designer	Lesley Ware	2018	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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