The multi-talented Forquet, who worked with Balenciaga and went on to dress Sophia Loren and Diana Vreeland in the 1960s and '70s, was also a decorator, collector, and garden designer.
The explorer and travel writer's first photographic book draws on his travels around the world, from war zones to traditional ways of rural life, frontier existences and modern technology. H... read more
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
Another wonderful illustrated volume of tangential history from Yale (see the book on guitars, below, in 'Music'). This is an exploration of how the rose has inspired fashion over hundreds o... 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
Brought up in North Carolina in the Jim Crow era, AT won a postgraduate scholarship to Brown University, worked at Warhol's Factory and volunteered for Diana Vreeland. He went on to become e... read more
A memoir from the former Editor of British Vogue, her trademark white stilettos at the ready. Shulman has been the most significant mind in British fashion for a generation.
A black and white Who's Who of the roaring twenties and thirties - this ab fab show at the NPG is given breadth by the inclusion of works by Henry Lamb, Rex Whistler, Christopher Wood and ot... read more
Published in February of this year to accompany the V&A's splendid exhibition - delayed, like so much else, to the late summer. Very good mix of exquisite antique pieces and contemporary fli... read more
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