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Rags to riches - with stripes down the spine.

Threads: My Life in Style

Paul Smith

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The excellent biographer of Chanel and Dior looks at how sartorial matters were used to project and protect the House of Windsor. Her cast includes Hardy Amies, Cecil Beaton, Norman Hartnell... read more

Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture ...

Justine Picardie

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A very handsome book which illustrates in gorgeous detail the couturier's passion for design outside the workshop. Part architectural history, part Who's Who of the 1930s' Côte d'Azur.

La Pausa: The Ideal Mediterranean Villa of Gabrielle Chanel ...

Olivier Meslay

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Gorgous, large-format celebration of the innovative fabric designs. For the 150th anniversary of the esteemed department store and design company.

Liberty: Design, Pattern, Colour

Kassia St Clair

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Half a century of fashion photography: Roversi collaborated closely with Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo and many others.

Paolo Roversi

Sylvie Lécallier

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You get the sense that the interviews for this oral history – drawn from several decades of conversations with Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen, Liam Gallagher, Sarah Lucas, Kate M... read more

Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That

Dylan Jones

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Bella Freud, Alice Temperley, Selina Blow, Luke Edward Hall, Laudomia Pucci, Coco & Sophie Conran...

This Creative Life: Fashion Designers at Home

Robyn Lea

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Delicious images from the collaboration in the 1950s/60s between the fashion house and Tom Kublin, the film director/photographer.

Balenciaga – Kublin: A Fashion Record

Ana Balda

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A gorgeous book on the Irish fashion designer whose dreamy designs draw on the work of Louise Bourgeois and Riu Kawakubo of Commes des Garçons.

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Simone Rocha

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Large-format volume of photos and ephemera of YSL and his world, from 1989 to his last collection in 2002. By a renowned photographer who, as the son of YSL's right-hand woman, had unparalle... read more

Yves Saint Laurent Inside Out: A Creative Universe Revealed ...

Carlos Munoz Yague

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This retrospective of the publicity-shy fashion designer is a collaboration between Jil Sander herself and the acclaimed book designer Irma Boom.

Jil Sander By Jil Sander

Ingeborg Harms

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A celebration of 50 years of design in 50 objects.

Paul Smith

Tony Chambers

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An illustrated study of the contributions by Black designers to international fashion.

Africa’s Fashion Diaspora

Elizabeth Way

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A veteran Vogue writer (and fashion addict) investigates that age-old question: why do I have so many clothes and nothing to wear? Erudite yet digestible.

Life, Death and Getting Dressed: How to love your clothes… and y ...

Rebecca Willis

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A memoir structured round mementos that takes us to Ossie & Celia, Andy, Karl, Diana, Freddie, Diana, Diana, Barbra and many other luminaries, or possibly icons.

Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects

Zandra Rhodes

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A memoir from the erstwhile editor at GQ, biographer of Bowie and Dylan, arbiter of style and culture.

These Foolish Things: A Memoir

Dylan Jones

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Crinolines and bikinis from bedroom to catwalk.

All the Rage: Pleasure, Pain, Power: Stories from the Frontline of Bea ...

Virginia Nicholson

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Roseland

Glen Luchford

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The great Japanese couturier, who once said that he never finished a garment - it was only complete when it had been worn for several years. His pioneering style was modern, functional yet l... read more

Issey Miyake

Midori Kitamura

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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

Diane Von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion

Nicolas Lor

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To accompany the show at the V&A, which is rumoured to have almost sold out already...

Gabrielle Chanel

Oriole Cullen

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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

Willie Christie: A Very Distinctive Style – Then & Now ...

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'The King of King's Road' and Celia, his wife, dominated fashion for several years just down the road from Sandoe's, during the heydays of Chelsea.

Mr & Mrs Clark: Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell. Fashion and print ...

Federico Poletti

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A splendid jollification: Liberty prints take on Futurist and Vorticist designs in a spectacular collaboration with Federico Forquet, the Italian couturier and designer who began his career ... read more

FuturLiberty: Liberty Fabrics and the Avant-Garde

Ester Coen

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From Balmain and Patou, via Chanel, to the later designs for his own brand. Catalogue of the MoMA exhibition.

Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty

Andrew Bolton

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Large-format book showing eight decades of photography, film-making, abstract art etc.

William Klein: Yes

William Klein

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A facsimile of an album of samples of English fabrics, with notes and essays by several contributors. The album takes its name from its compiler, John Holker ( 1719-1786), a Jacobite who esc... read more

The Holker Album: Textile Samples and Industrial Espionage in the 18th ...

Ariane Fennetaux

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Beautifully photographed; draws on the Dior Archive and conversations with Maria Grazia Chiuri, creative director of the fashion house. 3 vols in a slipcase.

Dior

Maria Grazia Chiuri

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Vreeland's witty aphorisms on fashion and life edited by her grandson. With charming vignettes by Luke Edward Hall.

Diana Vreeland: Bon Mots

Alexander Vreeland

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KL was Creative Director at Chanel for thirty-five years; as seen through glasses darkly. WM, a well known fashion journalist, knew him for many years.

Paradise Now: The Extraordinary Life of Karl Lagerfeld ...

William Middleton

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Born in Ghana, EE has become celebrated as the first black editor of British Vogue. This is his compelling account of how that happened.

A Visible Man

Edward Enninful

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Magnificent descriptions of the cistus harvest in Andalucia, lavender in Provence, bergamots in Calabria, cinnamon in Sri Lanka, oud in Bangladesh, vetiver in Haiti, benzoin in Laos, roses i... read more

In Search of Perfumes: A lifetime journey to the sources of natureR ...

Dominique Roques

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This superb survey from Aarhus University Press gives an unprecedented glimpse into the history of sumptuous male clothes.

Ten Kings’ Clothes: Royal Danish Dress, 1596-1863 ...

Katia Johansen

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Accompanies the exhibition at the Azzedine Alaïa Foundation in Paris, with a particular emphasis on his early life and career.

Alaia Afore Alaia

Laurence Bena?m

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Traces his life and partnerships with Frank, Dior, Chanel, Cocteau etc, with 200+ pics.

Christian Berard: Eccentric Modernist

Celia Bernasconi

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Thirty years of his meticulous linocuts, which have become such a feature of the fashion world.

François Berthoud: Fashion, Fetish and Fantasies

Beda Achermann

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