A long look at the magazine, founded in 1867, and its editors, stylists and photographers and contributors: as well as Dior and Schiaparelli, McQueen and Tom Ford, there's Diana Vreeland, Je... read more
Described in her lifetime as 'the most famous unknown photographer in America', Hofer's work has recently been the subject of a London exhibition. This handsome production focuses on her ima... read more
The Belgian designer must have used many kilometres of silk jersey since she first created her hallmark wrap dress in 1972. Many illustrations; to accompany an exhibition at the Brussels Fas... read more
The beauty of the ancient world through the eyes of the great Czech photographer who, between 1991 and 2015, travelled to 20 Mediterranean countries and photographed over 200 Greek and Roman... read more
Corberó (1935-2017) was a Catalan sculptor known for his monumental works for public spaces. For nearly fifty years he also constructed an extraordinary modernist labyrinth of buildings on ... read more
Matar's photographs at sites of lethal police violence in the US and her fastidious research make for a quietly devastating critique. The formality of her images and the directness of her g... read more
Street scenes, portraits, people at work, a classroom, children: this is powerful and poignant record of Kashgar as it used to be. All the photographs were taken in 1998, on the cusp of swee... read more
Off-beat and highly polished images from Christie's archive, mostly taken in his halcyon years at British Vogue in the 1970s. His saturated colours, rich monotones and uncluttered compositi... read more
Better known perhaps as a writer (Invisible Man, 1952), Ellison was also a fine photographer, who turned his camera as well as his pen on everyday life in America, especially the Black exper... read more
Chintz, calico and muslin; paisley, embroidery; jodhpurs, turbans - all have been used by designers such as Schiaparelli, Poiret, Balmain, Rhodes, Saint Laurent, Gauliter, McQueen...
Gabriel Cromer (1873-1934) was a French photographer who assembled a remarkable collection that ranges from photography's beginnings to c.1890. This collection never found a permanent home o... read more
First monograph on this hugely influential Japanese textile design company, with essays by Haruki Murakami, the architect Toyo Ito, curator Anna Jackson et al.
After a decade of renovations, the Derbyshire palace is looking pretty dapper. Focusing on seven scenes in its history, this volume is a handsome portrait of the house and its collections.
Boelsums is an extraordinary visual artist and this is one of the most remarkable photographic books to have come our way. Tramping through any amount of Dutch rain, wind and weather - arduo... read more
For old rockers and die-hards who simply refuse to gather moss... and, no doubt, for hipsters: an illustrated history of contemporary culture, through the prism of Rolling Stone magazine's c... read more