The Chiffon Trenches by Andre Leon Talley

$50.00 AUD

Category: Fashion

'Honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion' Manolo Blahnik Discover what truly happens behind the scenes in the world of high fashion in this detailed, storied memoir from style icon, bestselling author and former Vogue creative director André Leon Talley. During André Leon Talley' s first magazine job assisting Andy Warhol at Interview, a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decades-long friendship and propelled Talley into the upper echelons by virtue of his shared knowledge and adoration of fashion. He moved to Paris as bureau chief of John Fairchild's Women's Wear Daily, befriending fashion's most important designers. But as Talley made friends, he also made enemies. A fraught encounter with a member of the house of Yves Saint Laurent sent him back to New York and into the offices of Vogue under Grace Mirabella. There, he developed an unlikely but intimate friendship with Anna Wintour, and as she rose to the top of Vogue's masthead, Talley became the most influential man in fashion. The Chiffon Trenches is a candid look at the who's who of the last fifty years of fashion, and proof that fact is always fascinatingly more devilish than fiction. André Leon Talley's engaging memoir tells the story of how he not only survived but thrived - despite racism, illicit rumours and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry - to become one of the most legendary voices and faces in fashion. ...Show more

Perfume Legends II - French Feminine Fragrances by Michael Edwards

$192.50 AUD

Category: Fashion

The Sartorialist: MAN - Inspiration Every Man Wants, Education Every Man Needs by Scott Schuman; Pierpaolo Piccioli (Foreword by)

$90.00 AUD

Category: Fashion

Not since Dressing the Man has there been a definitive style guide for modern men. Into this gap steps The Sartorialist - renowned photographer and blogger Scott Schuman - which deftly combines the fashion inspiration every man wants with the style education every man needs. The perfect guide for men se eking to find or just honing their personal expression of style in the streetwear age, The Sartorialist weaves together both inspirational visual reference and practical lessons on sartorial matters, from how to tie to a tie to how to talk to one's tailor. Celebrating all types - from Goths to Trads, tailored to vintage, Schuman blows the dust off menswear rules of the past and updates style principles for each individual's body type and taste, as well as outlines style strategies gleaned from his long experience as a photographer and fashion editor. Interwoven with Schuman's dynamic street photography are style dos and don'ts as well as insights on pioneering trends and the diversity of men's fashion. Complementing texts about essential elements of the wardrobe, such as suits, shirts, pants, knits, outerwear, and accessories, are precise illustrations that provide an elegant primer to the foundation of menswear, from the vocabulary of shirts to the all-important fit for diverse body types. Also included are Schuman's sartorial takes on conundrums facing twenty-first-century men, from how to pose for selfies to tips for online reselling, maintenance, and sustainability. Refreshingly contemporary and inspiring, this striking menswear bible will come to define today's essence of style. ...Show more

Gabrielle Chanel by Miren Arzalluz

$90.00 AUD

Category: Fashion

A revolutionary fashion icon, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel can lay claim to inventing modern women's fashion. At the beginning of the twentieth century, she stripped women of their corsets, bobbed their hair, and sent them out into the sun to get a tan. She introduced the little black dress, created women's trousers, and produced the exquisitely made suits that became her trademark. She designed the first-ever couture perfume--No. 5--whose square-cut, cubist bottle became a symbol of art deco style, and which remains the most popular scent ever created. Her ideas on elegance and what it meant to be a modern woman created an immutable sense of style that still resonates today. Published to accompany a landmark exhibition in Paris and at the de Young in San Francisco, Gabrielle Chanel chronicles the designer's life from birth through the evolution of her timeless style. Specially commissioned photographs by Julien T. Hamon showcase her designs, while essays from fashion historians complemented by rare archival documents, including pictures of Chanel herself, paint a portrait of the designer in her time. This volume is a must-have for all fashion fans and students. ...Show more

Parisian Chic Encore - A Style Guide by Ines de la Fressange; Sophie Gachet

$40.00 AUD

Category: Fashion

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Celebrity model Inès de la Fressange shares the well-kept secrets of how Parisian women maintain effortless glamour and a timeless allure. Inès de la Fressange--France's icon of chic--shares her personal tips for living with style and charm, gleaned from decades in the fashion industry. She offers specific pointers on how to dress like a Parisian, including how to mix affordable basics with high-fashion touches, and how to accessorize. Her step-by-step do's and don'ts are accompanied by fashion photography, and the book is personalized with her charming drawings. Inès also shares how to bring Parisian chic into your home, and how to insert your signature style into any space--even the office. Complete with her favorite addresses for finding the ultimate fashion and decorating items, this is a must-have for any woman who wants to add a touch of Paris to her own style. ...Show more

Clothes... and Other Things That Matter (HB) by Alexandra Shulman

$35.00 AUD

Category: Fashion

Chosen by Evening Standard as one of the best books to look forward to in 2020. 'a must-read memoir for even those beyond the fashion set.' - Evening Standard Chosen by Stylist as one of 2020's best non-fiction books. 'In the funny and opinionated Clothes... and other things that matter, former Vogue U K editor Alexandra Shulman explores the meaning of clothes and how we wear them. From the little black dress to the white shirt and the bikini, she takes pieces of clothes and examines their role in her own life and the lives of women in general, touching on issues including sexual identity, motherhood, ambition, power and body image.A must-read for anyone, like Miranda Priestly, who knows that clothes might not maketh the woman, but they certainly help.' - Stylist 'Clothes... and other things that matter is a book not only about clothes but about the way we live our lives. From childhood onwards, the way we dress is a result of our personal history. In a mix of memoir, fashion history and social observation I am writing about the person our clothes allows us to be and sometimes the person they turn us into.' - Alexandra Shulman In Clothes... and other things that matter, Alexandra Shulman delves into her own life to look at the emotions, ambitions, expectations and meanings behind the way we dress. From the bra to the bikini, the trench coat to trainers, the slip dress to the suit, she explores their meaning in women's lives and how our wardrobes intersect with the larger world - the career ladder, motherhood, romance, sexual identity, ambition, failure, body image and celebrity. By turns funny, refreshingly self-deprecating and often very moving, this startlingly honest memoir from the ex-Editor of British Vogue will encourage women of all ages to consider what their own clothes mean to them, the life they live in them and the stories they tell.   ...Show more

The Most Beautiful Job in the World by Guilia Mensitieri

$35.00 AUD

Category: Fashion

Fashion is one of the most powerful industries in the world, accounting for 6 per cent of global consumption and growing steadily. Since the 1980s and the birth of the neoliberal economy, it has emerged as the glittering face of capitalism, bringing together prestige, power and beauty and occupying a ce ntral place in media and consumer fantasies. Yet the fashion industry, which claims to offer highly desirable job opportunities, relies significantly on job instability, not just in outsourced garment production but at the very heart of its creative production of luxury. Based on an in-depth investigation involving stylists, models, designers, hairdressers, make-up artists, photographers and interns, anthropologist Giulia Mensitieri draws back fashion's glamorous facade to explore the lived realities of working in the industry. This challenging book lays bare the working conditions of 'the most beautiful job in the world', showing that exploitation isn't confined to sweatshops or sexual harassment of models, but exists at the very heart of the powerful symbolic and economic centre of fashion. ...Show more

The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion - 250 Years of Design by Petra Slinkard (Editor);

$85.00 AUD

Category: Fashion

Celebrated and hidden figures from First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln's seamstress to Elsa Schiaparelli and Chromat revealed through their stories and most compelling works. Diane Von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood, Sarah Burton, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Donna Karan, and Iris van Herpen are among the great w omen designers to emerge in the last few decades. We now live in an age when no one would dare call them "that little seamstress," as Paul Poiret disdainfully referred to Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel more than a century ago. The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion highlights early innovative and contemporary designers working in a variety of materials and genres. This unique volume profiles widely-known early fashion vanguards such as Jeanne Lanvin, Callot Soeurs, and Madeleine Vionnet, as well as underrepresented women who revolutionized fashion from the mid-1700s to the present. More than one hundred works--including street fashion, ready-to-wear, traditional, and haute couture--celebrate women designers' concepts of dress and beauty. Through the work of more than fifty individual style makers, The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion illuminates issues of representation, creativity, and distinctiveness, as well as the labor challenges surrounding fashion today. ...Show more

Dior - Catwalk - The Complete Collections by Alexander Fury; Adélia Sabatini

$100.00 AUD

Category: Fashion | Series: Catwalk Ser.

This book gathers together, for the first time, every Dior haute couture collection, including also ready-to-wear collections after the arrival of John Galliano (when ready-to-wear presentations took on a new importance), and the first two collections designed by creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri, a ppointed in 2016. It offers a unique opportunity to chart the development of one of the world's most famous fashion brands and discover rarely seen collections. This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house of Dior before exploring the collections themselves, which are organized chronologically. Each new 'era' in Dior's history is inaugurated by a brief overview and biography of the new designer, while individual collections are introduced by a short text unveiling their influences and highlights and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book. After Chanel, Dior is the second volume in a series of high-end, cloth-bound books that offer a complete and unrivalled overview of the collections of the world's top fashion houses through original catwalk photography. ...Show more

Dior in Bloom by Alain Stella; Justine Picardie; Naomi Sachs; Nick Knight (Photographer)

$170.00 AUD

Category: Fashion

Celebrating Dior's floral inspirations in fashion and perfume, this unique volume features a portfolio of rose portraits by acclaimed fashion photographer Nick Knight. For Christian Dior, perfume was "a door opening into a hidden world." His first, Miss Dior, inspired by the lush gardens of his childho od home in Normandy, forged an inextricable link between his fashion and fragrance creations. Other scents were inspired by evenings in southern France, lit with fireflies and scented with jasmine. The rose bowers of his family home in Granville; his old mill country house; and the Château de la Colle Noire near Grasse-where jasmine, tuberose, and May roses reign supreme and are still cultivated-inspired Dior's most memorable creations. Flowers were also at the heart of Dior's fashion, from the women-flowers that inspired the late 1940s New Look to the swishing, blossom-like ball gowns embroidered with lavish floral motifs. They have inspired all of the designers who followed him at the House of Dior, from Yves St Laurent to John Galliano, and Raf Simons to Maria Grazia Chiuri. This extraordinary volume blooms with color and inspiration, and includes rose portraits by Nick Knight, previously unpublished archival documents, exquisite details of embroidery and fabrics, perfumes, fashion sketches, and sublime fashion photographs. ...Show more

Vogue: Fantasy and Fashion by Vogue editors

$140.00 AUD

Category: Fashion

A dream book of empowering and fantastical fashion narratives--from Brothers Grimm to futuristic scenarios--told in Vogue's inimitable style Lavishly illustrated, Vogue: Fantasy & Fashion celebrates the magazine's strong and deeply rooted tradition of storytelling through magical, narrative portfoli os. Fashion's greatest power is its ability to make people dream; to create new worlds. Whether falling down a rabbit hole, conquering new, digital frontiers, or exploring the limits of surrealism, the heroines who feature in photographs by great talents like Annie Leibovitz, Steven Meisel, Irving Penn, and Steven Klein are writing their own tales, defining their own destinies. Featuring well-known images as well as unexpected gems from the archive, Vogue: Fantasy & Fashion documents fashion at its most magical and affirms its transformative power. ...Show more

The Fashion Book by Phaidon Editors

$69.95 AUD

Category: Fashion

The iconic bestseller - showcasing more than 500 of fashion's greatest names from A- Z - now updated in a stunning new edition Revised and updated, this new edition of Phaidon's iconic global bestseller The Fashion Booktakes a fresh look at the fashion world and the people who created and inspired it. Spanning two centuries, the entire industry is represented: from designers to photographers, editors, creative directors and influencers. Marking significant changes on the fashion landscape, this edition features the new people who have fundamentally shaped the way we see fashion in recent years, including Virgil Abloh, Gosha Rubchinskiy, and Alessandro Michele, influential photographer Petra Collins, designer and contemporary icon Rihanna, and Leandra Medine, alongside fashion pioneers of the previous edition such as Coco Chanel, Issey Miyake, Kate Moss, Erdem, and Richard Avedon. The bestselling - and now updated - classic volume remains a comprehensive and definitive view of the fashion industry today.     ...Show more