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Fashion & Textile Industry Books

Books selected for readers looking for fashion & textile industry books.

29 booksApril 2, 2026

Part of 500+ tracked lists·1 crossover shelf·50% reader overlap with What Women In Power Wear, and Why It Matters

1. Fashionopolis
Dana Thomas
Fits this list for its focus on fashion and industry.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
2. Bigger Than Fashion
Tyler Watamanuk
Fits this list for its focus on fashion and industry.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
3. 20th-century Fashion. 100 Years of Apparel Ads
Jim Heimann, Alison A. Nieder
Fits this list for its focus on fashion and industry.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
4. Dress Code
Véronique Hyland
Fits this list for its focus on fashion.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
5. Fashion Killa
Sowmya Krishnamurthy
Fits this list for its focus on fashion and industry.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
6. The Kingdom of Prep
Maggie Bullock
Fits this list for its focus on fashion.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
7. The New Beauty
gestalten, Kari Molvar
Fits this list for its focus on fashion and industry.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
8. The Conscious Closet
Elizabeth L. Cline, Penguin Audio
Fits this list for its focus on fashion.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
9. Vogue: the Gown
Jo Ellison
Fits this list for its focus on fashion.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
10. Little Book of Fendi
Laia Farran Graves
Fits this list for its focus on fashion and industry.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
11. Deluxe
Dana Thomas
Fits this list for its focus on fashion.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
12. Hollywood Fashion
Nancy J. Hajeski
Fits this list for its focus on fashion and industry.
Shelf signal: Celebrity Photography
13. Overdressed
Elizabeth L. Cline
Fits this list for its focus on fashion.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
14. The Battle of Versailles
Robin Givhan
Fits this list for its focus on fashion and industry.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
15. Shoes!
Anna Davies, Daisy Wynter
Fits this list for its focus on fashion.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
16. Claire Mccardell
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Fits this list for its focus on fashion.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
17. Little Book of Chloé
Caroline Young
Fits this list for its focus on fashion and industry.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
18. The Lost Art of Dress
Linda Przybyszewski
Fits this list for its focus on fashion.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
19. Worn
Sofi Thanhauser, Rebecca Lowman
Included for strong award alignment with this fashion & textile industry list.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
20. Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain
Ami Bouhassane, Robin Muir
Fits this list for its focus on fashion and industry.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
21. Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse
Susan Brown, Matilda McQuaid
Fits this list for its focus on fashion and textile.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
22. American Flannel
Steven Kurutz
Included for strong personal development alignment with this fashion & textile industry list.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
23. Bad Girls of Fashion
Jennifer Croll, Ada Buchholc
Fits this list for its focus on fashion.
Shelf signal: Fashion & Textiles Business
24. The Weaver's Craft
Adrienne D. Hood
Fits this list for its focus on industry and textile.
Shelf signal: Colonial America (to 1775)