What are the best fashion books every true fashionista should read? Check out the fashion books that will make you easily lose yourself and wish you never left this world.
Below we present to you best fashion booksi! If you enjoy fashion photography, flipping through freshly printed fashion magazines, beautiful editorials photographed in fairytale locations, fashion shows that are real stage spectacles and wonderful biographies of all those who have made a huge contribution to the fashion industry, these are the books you will enjoy lost easily and wished they had never left this world.
These are best books about fashion!
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992
Tina Brown
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Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair magazine, tells about her years at the helm of the magazine in the form of a diary she kept at the time. Arriving from London to New York in the 1980s, Brown was tasked with whipping the publication into shape, and The Vanity Fair Diaries is a look at some of its most famous covers and the stories that did just that.
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The Glass of Fashion
Cecil Beaton
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Illustrated with over 150 drawings by Cecil Beaton, The Glass of Fashion is an 18-chapter memoir that tells the stories of the larger-than-life characters who inspired the fashion photographer – from Coco Chanel to his Aunt Jessie. The book, which was not reprinted for many years (it was first published in 1954), is today easily accessible and very popular.
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Simply Halston: The Untold Story
Steven S. Gaines
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Fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick was a complex man with a complex career. In a biography written in 1991, just a year after Halston died of AIDS, Steven S. Gaines gets inside the heart of his subject. Simply Halston: The Untold Story is the first-ever exploration of the man who transformed his name into a fashion house name, and whose true story needs to be heard!
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The Language of Fashion
Roland Barthes
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Roland Barthes has always been drawn to the subject of clothing and fashion, and his 2006 book, The Language of Fashion, contains a collection of critical and semiotic essays on the subject, including essays on the meaning of color, the power of jewelry, and the style of André Courrèges and Coco Chanel.
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Helmut Newton: Autobiography
Helmut Newton
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Helmut Newton's autobiography was published just months before his fatal car accident on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in 2004. The book tells the story of Newton's early life in Germany - from when he picked up his first camera at the age of 12 and fled the country before the Nazi persecution - until the period in the 1970s and later, when he won the title of The King of Kink as a fashion photographer.
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The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
Joan Juliet Buck
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The former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, Joan Juliet Buck, was the first and only American woman to hold the position. Her memoir was published in 2017 and reveals her remarkable – and sometimes dramatic – life between London, New York, Paris and Los Angeles. The Price of Illusion is a moving portrayal of a woman searching for authenticity behind the apparent veil of fashion and glamour.
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The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever
Terry Agins
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Wall Street Journal columnist and fashion author Terry Agins explores the primal transition from high fashion to mass marketing and delves into the mechanics of the modern fashion industry. With case studies from Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Isaac Mizrahi, this book, written at the turn of the millennium, is a fascinating exploration of fashion as a business.
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Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes
Shahidha Bari
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In the book Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes, academic and critic Shahidha Bari stops to think about the symbolic language of clothes. Emphasizing cultural and historical moments and trends, Bari offers a comprehensive and irresistible study of the way we dress.
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Grace: A Memoir
Grace Coddington
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From teenage model and muse to Norman Parkinson to creative director of American Vogue, Grace Coddington's memoir is the story of a Welsh girl who did something extraordinary. Since her story spans more than 50 years, the book is beautifully illustrated with drawings and photographs of the red-haired fashion heroine for added dynamism.
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