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Books

Written & edited by Colleen Hill, in reverse chronological order

2026 – 2023

Doll Dressing

Doll Dressing (Rizzoli Electa, 2026): a model in a pink and blue sculpted dress and black bobbed wig, photographed against a pink ground, the title set vertically in white

Maison Martin Margiela: A Design Lexicon

Maison Martin Margiela: A Design Lexicon (V-A-C Press, 2024): a bare white cover crossed by a single dotted diagonal, Russian title in small black type

Shoes A–Z: The Collection of The Museum at FIT

Shoes A–Z: The Collection of The Museum at FIT (Taschen, 2023), shown standing: a zebra-print calf-hair pump with a red lining on a pale grey ground, the title in dusty rose serif capitals

Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion

Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2023): a sage-green cover with a Victorian illustration of a woman sewing at a white wicker table

2021 – 2019

Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties

Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties (Rizzoli, 2021): a green tartan panel beside a photograph of a young woman crouching in a floral dress and clogs

Fashion Designers A–Z

Fashion Designers A–Z (Taschen, updated edition, 2021): a linen-bound volume with the title in black serif capitals above a black panel, on it a mannequin in a printed silk dress of feathers, snakeskin, and butterfly wings

Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT

Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT (Skira, 2019): a shift dress printed with a giant halftone eye, on a deep blue ground with a gold anniversary seal

2017 – 2014

Paris Refashioned, 1957–1968

Paris Refashioned, 1957–1968 (Yale, 2017): a black-and-white photograph of a model in oversized round white sunglasses, title in turquoise

Fairy Tale Fashion

Fairy Tale Fashion (Yale, 2016): a model in a tiered white lace gown with arms outstretched in a misty pine forest, title in a scrolling white initial

Sustainable Fashion: Past, Present and Future

Sustainable Fashion: Past, Present and Future (Bloomsbury, 2014): a white cover with the title in chartreuse and a row of small icons — recycling arrows, a fox, a dress form, a button, and a factory

2014 – 2013

Exposed: A History of Lingerie

Exposed: A History of Lingerie (Yale, 2014): a soft-focus black-and-white photograph of a woman in a strapless girdle and suspenders

Shoe Obsession

Shoe Obsession (Yale, 2013): a black-and-white photograph of towering black platform heels with curved cutaway soles