Giorgio Riellois Associate Professor in Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. He has widely published on fashion, textiles, product innovation and design in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is the author of A Foot in the Past(2006) and co-editor of several volumes including The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives(2010 with P. McNeil). Peter McNeilis Professor of Design History in the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney and Foundation Professor of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University. Recent publications include The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives, and Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources, Renaissance to the Present… Day(4 Vols. Berg, 2009).