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Recommendations : Books About Fashion & Designers

Right now I'm reading The Beautiful Fall. It's amazing! :heart: I bought it a while ago and never got around to reading it until now... so glad I finally did. ^_^

It has become one of my standard read over and over all the time books! What a cast of characters, many of whom ended up having sad lives, but you can see how much the Paris scene in the 70s influenced what we see today! Great book- highly recommended! :flower:
 
I've been reading A Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake. As far as straight reference books go, I have Fashion by Christopher Breward, 20th Century Fashion by Valerie Mendes, Icons of Fashion: the 20th century, and Changing appearances: Understanding Dress in Contemporary Society by George Sproles
 
I was just wondering if there is a consensus on the best few books about fashion? What are the must reads? Thanks a lot. Jonathan.
 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Valentino-M...=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248731145&sr=8-4
This book on Valentino is amazing in my opinion! It's full of beautiful pictures, sketches, dialogues and little scribbles and notes by the designer. I'm amazed at the quality as it isn't so expensive, but i guess that always the case with publisher Taschen.
It is a typical coffee-table book, it's big, so you (probably) won't sit down and start reading from front to back;)
 
Also, via www.archive.org you can read the biography 'Christian Dior and I' by Christian Dior himself online! It's a great system, you can just flip through the pages by clicking if you read online
link: http://www.archive.org/details/christiandiorand010865mbp
just clink on 'Read Online' or 'Pdf' on the left of the page..

It's very old, published in 1957, very worthwhile if you ask me.
It's actually being sold second hand on amazon, prices starting at 35 dollars!
 
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anna piaggi's fashionology (sorry if this is in the wrong section)

does anyone have this book?
is it any good?
i found it on amazon but its used and if its not its like 80 pounds!
thank you and sorry if this is in the wrong section of the forums i cant find one about books about fashion so i guessed ill post this in the magazines section)
 
The following are really great books..

Fashion Zeitgeist: Trends and Cycles in the Fashion System is a great book, also the Style Machine and Fashion Inside Out, one of my most memorable is Yves Saint Laurent 40 years of Fashion

very informative, all of them
 
I Love Your Style by Amanda Brooks

I've heard the book by Amanda Brooks called I Love Your Style is a great book filled with a ton of editorial photos. It's not available until September 15th, so I don't know first hand.. but it's something to look into.
 
I'm currently reading "Karl" by Paul Sahner. It's in German. I don't know whether there are translations. I guess not yet, cause it was published a month ago.

Great book :D It's a mixture of Lagerfelds life story and interview parts. Sahner is a German journalist who interviewed Karl Lagerfeld a million of times. It seems that the two connect well. I guess there's no breaking news though, however it's a good read.
 
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