📚 Fashion

Books with fashion on their catalogue record, first published between 1925 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject fashion in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 11,963 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	Gini Stephens Frings	1987	21
	Fashion Theory	Malcolm Barnard	2014	18
	Historic costume	Katherine Morris Lester	1925	14
	The glass of fashion	Cecil Beaton	1954	13
	Système de la mode	Roland Barthes	1967	13
	Survey of historic costume	Phyllis G. Tortora	1989	12
	History of twentieth century fashion	Elizabeth Ewing	1974	11
	The language of clothes	Alison Lurie	1981	11
	Yves Saint Laurent	Yves Saint Laurent	1983	11
	Beyond design	Sandra J. Keiser	2003	11
	Inside the fashion business	Jeannette A. Jarnow	1965	10
	In Vogue	Georgina Howell	1975	10
	The business of fashion	Leslie Davis Burns	1997	10
	The dynamics of fashion	Elaine Stone	1999	10
	A history of fashion	J. Anderson Black	1975	9
	Fashion design	Kathryn McKelvey	2002	9
	The dictionary of fashion history	Valerie Cumming	2010	8
	The evolution of fashion	Margot Hamilton Hill	1967	7
	The fashion conspiracy	Nicholas Coleridge	1988	7
	Illustrating Fashion	Steven Stipelman	1996	7
	The Beautiful Fall	Alicia Drake	2006	7
	Corsets and codpieces	Karen Bowman	2015	7
	How to read a dress	Lydia Edwards	2017	6
	Fashion is spinach	Elizabeth Hawes	1938	5
	Fashion, from ancient Egypt to the present day	Mila Contini	1965	5
	Art deco fashion	Martin Battersby	1974	5
	Victorian and Edwardian Fashion	Alison Gernsheim	1981	5
	Costume and fashion	James Laver	1982	5
	Handmade shoes for men	László Vass	1999	5
	Tom Ford	Graydon Carter	2004	5

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

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