Lou Taylor is Professor Emerita in Dress History in the Department of Humanities and Social Science of the University of Brighton UK, where she taught dress history for over 30 years. Her first book was Mourning Dress – a Costume and Social History,1983, for Routledge Press, London. In 1900 an 1900 she published The Study of Dress History (2002) and Establishing Dress History, (2004) both for Manchester University Press. Her most recent book is Paris Fashion and World War Two- Global Diffusion and Nazi Control, edited with Marie McLoughlin, for Bloomsbury Press – 2020, awarded Book of the Year 2021 by the Association of Dress Historians. She is Chair of the international Research Interest Group:Tailoring for Women 1750-1930, attached to ACORSO – Apparences, Corps et Sociétés, a European-wide research group dedicated to bringing the dress, textile and social history research of museum curators and university staff together.