The Fashionista’s Favorite Books

For the fashionista or fashion forward woman, there are a number of fashion books that are good reads and keep one up to date on the latest trends, etc. You can build a fashion book library! They are great references for last minute answers to your fashion dilemmas or they make great gifts all year long!

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Paris Haute Couture

C.Z Guest American Style Icon

Roger Vivier

The Diary of a Nose

The Perfume Lover

The WOW Factor:
Insider Style Secrets for Every Body and Every Budget

Dressing The Queen

The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter

Fortuny y Madrazo:
An Artistic Legacy

The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World 

Hollywood Sketchbook

Madame Grès: Sculptural Fashion

Audrey The 60's

What Shall I Wear?

Empress of Fashion:
A Life of Diana Vreeland

Grace: A Memoir

The New Jewelers

Advanved Style

Alexander MCQueen
Savage Beauty

 Incomparable: Women of Style

Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us

Lilly
Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend  

 

Jemma Kidd
Make-Up Secrets

 The Sartorialist: Closer
Scott Schuman

 

What to Wear for Every Occasion
by Nina Garcia

Love Looks Not with the Eyes: Thirteen Years with Lee Alexander McQueen 

Beauty
by Roger Scruton

 Global Denim
by Daniel Miller
and Sophie Woodward

The Ivy Look
by Graham Marsh and JP Gaul

Gunn's Golden Rules:Life's Little Lesson for Making it Work
by Tim Gunn

Anna Sui
by Andrew Bolton

Coloring Book
by Yves Saint Laurent

Minimalism and Fashion Reduction
in the Postmodern Era
by Elyssa Dimant

WWD; 100 years, 100 Designers
by Bridget Foley

Zeitgeist
& Glamour:
Photography of the'60's and 70's

Isabella Blow
by Martina Rink