Yves Saint Laurent Catwalk: The Complete Haute Couture Collections 1962-2002
£60.00The first comprehensive overview of Yves Saint Laurent’s haute couture collections, presented through original catwalk photography.
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World According To Karl
£10.00A reduced edition of this cornucopia of Karl Lagerfeld’s legendary maxims.
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Louis Vuitton
£60.00Founded as a luxury leather goods house in 1854, Louis Vuitton was for many decades one of the world’s leading trunk and accessories makers. It was after launching its first fashion collections in 1998, however, that the house reached unprecedented global fame, and pioneered high-profile collaborations with artists such as Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami and Stephen Sprouse. This publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by brief biographical profiles of Marc Jacobs, the first creative director 1998-2014, and Nicolas Ghesquière, who helms the brand today, before exploring the collections themselves, organised chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images.
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Gods & Kings
£25.00In the first decade of the 21st century, the fashion world was dominated by two very different but equally successful – and turbulent – figures. But then, within 12 months, Alexander McQueen had committed suicide, and John Galliano’s career had unravelled in public after he was arrested for an anti-Semitic tirade at a Paris bar. Dana Thomas uses the story of these two charismatic figures to look behind the closed doors of the notoriously secretive fashion world.
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Elsa Schiaparelli:A Biography
£25.00One of the most extraordinary fashion designers of the 20th century, Elsa Schiaparelli was an integral figure in the artistic movement of the times. Her collaborations with artists such as Man Ray, Salvador DalÃ, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacometti elevated the field of women’s clothing design into the realm of art. Her story is one of pluck, determination and talent with scandal as spice.
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Horst:Photographer Of Style
£40.00One of Vogue’s most prolific and creative contributors, Horst worked in Paris and New York, photographing fashions by leading designers and making portraits of the century’s stars. Published to accompany a headline exhibition at the V&A, this book is a celebration of his extraordinary career.
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Empress Of Fashion Life Diana Vreeland
£19.95As an editor, curator and wit, Diana Vreeland made a lasting mark and remains an icon for generations of fashion lovers. During her 50-year reign as the ’empress of fashion’, she launched Twiggy, advised Jackie O and coined some of fashion’s most eloquent proverbs, such as the ‘bikini is the biggest thing since the atom bomb’. She aimed to instruct where possible, to delight, to give pleasure, to bring to the reader what interests her. In this book Amanda Mackenzie Stuart portrays a visionary who reinvented the way we think about style and where we go to think about it.
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Fashion illustration, 1930 to 1970
£17.99The art form of fashion illustration goes back to the beginning of the 20th century and today’s exponents are still benefiting from some of the styles, shapes and colours of fashion illustrators from decades ago.