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.
A gorgeous book, drawing from the V&As enormous collections. It contains over 500 pages of lavish illustrations, each chapter focusing on a different technique - weaving, knitting, dying... read more
A celebration of Saint Laurent's life and work with contributions by many tastebuds - Hamish Bowles, Diane von Furstenberg, Umberto Pasti, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, et alia.
'Please bring no clothes: we live in a state of utmost simplicity': so wrote Virginia Woolf to T.S. Eliot in 1920. Porter looks at the Bloomsbury group through their clothes - their creativi... read more
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.
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
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 curator of fashion at the V&A for most of her working life, CW uses her experience and sensitivity to clothes to explore how, in her own family's life, the secrets of clothes measure out t... read more
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