Empires Over Skin: How We Fashioned Our World (2025) by M.Y.B.

✶ PRESALE: THIS BOOK IS EXPECTED TO SHIP OCTOBER 2025. ✶

MeltdownYourBooks is back with her second book, in many ways a follow up to her extremely popular first book, Where Does A Body Begin? (2023), but unique in many ways, well. Where exactly the body begins is, perhaps even more so than Biologists, extremely important to another way of life: fashion. 

Having spent a couple of years devouring every book that was ever written about Fashion (in English), MeltdownYourBooks, with her well-known charisma, has produced one of the most interesting and rigorous accounts of the Fashion industry, from head to toe, from Paris to Tokyo, and from working conditions to the semiotics of the body.

This book is just so much fun, and the colour match between the author and the topic is just an undeniable success.

The book has once again been fitted with a complete suite of designs from atelier Lilim, who styled the first and most iconic look of Where Does A Body Begin? (2023)

DETAILS: 
Authored by Meltdown Your Books 
Edited by Nicholas E. Powers
Illustrated by Rachel Lillim
CAT #BECOMING012
978-9925-8207-4-0
Pages: TBC 
A6, Softcover
First Edition, October 2025