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
Histoire du costume en occident
François Boucher
Histoire du costume
Henny Harald Hansen
Hats: An Anthology
Stephen Jones et al.
Gravures Militaires
Alberto von Escher
The Glass of Fashion
Cecil Beaton
The Genius of Charles James
Elizabeth Ann Coleman
Fashion’s World Cities
Christopher Breward et al.
Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
Philippe Perrot
Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990
Susan Kismaric et al.
Fashion Zeitgeist
Barbara Vinken
Fashion at the Edge
Caroline Evans
Fashion and Armour in Renaissance Europe
Angus Patterson
Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design
Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Double-Face: The Story about Fashion and Art from Mohammed to Warhol
Christoph Doswald, ed.
The Dandy: Brummell to Beerbohm
Ellen Moers
Costume Patterns and Designs
Max Tilke
Conformismo e Trasgressione
Annamaria Andreoli
The Complete Costume History
Auguste Racinet
Comme des Garçons
Rei Kawakubo
Chic Clicks
Ulrich Lehmann et al.
The Best of Beaton
Cecil Beaton et al.
Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Man of Style
Ian Kelly
Beaton: The Art of the Scrapbook
James N. Danziger
Ascher: Fabric, Art, Fashion
Valerie D. Mendes et al.
As Seen in BLITZ: Fashioning ‘80s Style
Iain R. Webb
Antonio Lopez: Fashion, Art, Sex and Disco
Roger Padiha et al.
American Fashion
Sarah Tomerlin Lee, ed.
Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity
Elizabeth Wilson
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