Between the shelves in my office and those in our design team’s area, our walls are packed floor to ceiling with books that inspire us season after season. There are some books that are dog-eared and have hot pink Post-It notes sticking out for easy reference. Others are carefully kept and read every few years. Some are about the actual technicalities of design; others are about the personalities — the glamour icons and behind-the-scenes tsars; there are art, textile and photography titles and a few travel tomes, too. To kick off our 2015 Book Issue, here is a look at what’s on our fashion library shelf (at least part of it).
- Yves Klein, 1928-1962;: Selected Writings by Yves Klein
- I Just Arrived in Paris by Juergen Teller and Nicolas Ghesquière
- Vogue The Editor’s Eye by the Condé Nast Editors
- Marisa Berenson: A Life in Pictures by Marisa Berenson
- Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli by Dilys E. Blum
- W: Stories by Stefano Tonchi
- Yves Saint Laurent: A Moroccan Passion by Pierre Bergé
- V&A Patterns book series (William Morris, Indian Florals, etc.)
- Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
- Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton
- Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 by Carol Squiers, Vince Aletti, Philippe Garner and Willis Hartshorn
- D.V. by Diana Vreeland
- Seven Sisters Style: The All-American Preppy Look by Rebecca C. Tuite
- The Glass of Fashion: A Personal History of Fifty Years of Changing Tastes and the People Who Have Inspired Them by Cecil Beaton
- Ascher: Fabric-Art-Fashion by Valerie D. Mendes
- Kate Moss by Mario Testino by Mario Testino
- Chic Savages by John Fairchild
- Fashion Illustration by Fashion Designers by Laird Borrelli
- Street Style by Ted Polhemus
- Hotel Il Pellicano 40 years of History, edited by Robert Violette
- Ballet Russes by Andre Tubeuf
- The Impossible Collection of Fashion by Valerie Steele
- Peter Beard, edited by Nejma Beard
- Yinka Shonibare MBE by Anthony Downey
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