Chosen Books

Invited designers and commentators have chosen these as the books that inspire them and that have shaped their worldview or their ideas about design.
80 books
Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Man of Style
Ian Kelly
Comme des Garçons
Rei Kawakubo
Hats: An Anthology
Stephen Jones et al.
How to Dress for Success
Edith Head et al.
Zandra Rhodes
Amy de la Haye
Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail
Avril Hart et al.
Histoire du costume
Henny Harald Hansen
The World of Gloria Vanderbilt
Wendy Goodman et al.
Paris Couture—Années Trente
Guillaume Garnier
Rudi Gernreich—Fashion Will Go Out of Fashion
Brigitte Felderer
Fashion at the Edge
Caroline Evans
Hussein Chalayan
Caroline Evans et al.
Double-Face: The Story about Fashion and Art from Mohammed to Warhol
Christoph Doswald, ed.
Minimalism and Fashion: Reduction in the Postmodern Era
Elyssa Dimant
Mariano Fortuny
Guillermo De Osma
Beaton: The Art of the Scrapbook
James N. Danziger
World Dress Fashion in Detail
Rosemary Crill et al.
The Secrets of Vacheron Constantin
Franco Cologni et al.
The Genius of Charles James
Elizabeth Ann Coleman
Spectres: When Fashion Turns Back
Judith Clark
V&A Pattern: Boxed Set
Yueh-Siang Chang et al.
Lace: From the Victoria and Albert Museum
Clare Browne
Fashion’s World Cities
Christopher Breward et al.
Histoire du costume en occident
François Boucher
The Glass of Fashion
Cecil Beaton
The Best of Beaton
Cecil Beaton et al.
100 Years of Western Wear
Tyler Beard
Système de la Mode (The Fashion System)
Roland Barthes
Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women c. 1560–1620
Janet Arnold
Conformismo e Trasgressione
Annamaria Andreoli
Magnificence of the Tsars
Svetlana A. Amelekhina
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