Versace (Universe of Fashion)

Guided by a vivid imagination and an innate sense of image, this prince of fashion has been setting the tone for the latest styles since his first show in the 1960s. Known for his design genius, Versace is also a true aesthete who enjoys "researching" his creations. Here Martin, the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, profiles the great couturier, setting his life against the vivid backdrop of the art and fashion society of our time. 60 color photos. 

Hardcover, 80 pages Published by Vendome Pr Publication date: May 1997 Dimensions (in inches): 0.54 x 8.82 x 6.46

Chanel (The Universe of Fashion)

Interspersed with the photographs are whimsical montage illustrations by Karl Lagerfeld, the current design director of Chanel. There are also a few photographs from modern advertising campaigns.

20Th-Century Fashion : The Complete Sourcebook 

From the styles of the early 1900s to the early 1990s, John Peacock charts the development of women's fashion in all its aspects. Fashions top designers are found here, from Balenciaga's classic gowns and Dior's New Look to Mary Quant's ready-to-wear mini-dresses and Calvin Klein jeans. Arranged decade by decade, over 1,100 color illustrations are accompanied by descriptions of each garment and accessory.

The Fashion Book

The indomitable Coco Chanel demonstrates the ease of movement her designs afforded women by briskly swinging her arm out to one side, while Kate Moss is shown at the height of her waifdom, likely the mode in with curly locks of hair. It's obvious, too, that the editors employed the haphazard juxtaposition created by the alphabetical organization.
 

The Complete Book of Fashion Illustration

Step-by-step drawing and teaching methods allow fashion design and illustration students to master the basics and continue to improve and refine their drawing skills. THE COMPLETE BOOK OF FASHION ILLUSTRATION features the latest fashion images and encourages development of a unique and professional illustration style.

Fashion in Detail : From the 17th and 18th Centuries

 This sumptuously illustrated book offers the first up-close view of the richness and variety of historical dress of the 17th and 18th centuries. Drawn from the Victoria and Albert Museum's world-famous collection, these garments display skills that are now lost, yet continue to inspire today's leading designers. 

On the Edge : Images from 100 Years of Vogue

This book celebrates Vogue's 100th anniversary, withs, one per page, of the fashionable and the famous, by some of the world's greatest photographers. Short texts distributed throughout the book include many new anecdotes from editors and photographers and serve as a short history of Vogue. Black-and-white and color photos. 

Runway Madness

"Beyond the smoke and mirrors of the runway lies another part of the fashion world." It is there that Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Lucian Perkins finds the most compelling images: über-waif Kate Moss sipping champagne decked out in an undershirt, jeans, and a bogling network of curled hair extensions. Design maven Isaac Mizrahi fretting over a voluminous skirt. Glamour-pusses Naomi Campbell and Veronica Webb lolling around, waiting for their curlers to set, while the clock ticks at the rate of $250 per hour. Perkins gets up on the runway, too. He turns his camera on his  colleagues, who form an impenetrable wall of extra-long lenses and tripods. He looks out into the audience, where he finds the gender-bending RuPaul, Southern belle Dolly Parton, and actress Mira Sorvino parked amid the ubiquitous fashion editors and buyers and socialites. And he follows the impossibly fabulous creatures as they strut their wares down that most glamorous corridor--the  runway.