Books

Chanel No 5 explores the evolution of the perfumes packaging, composition, manufacture and marketing, with unprecedented access to the Chanel archives and those tasked with creating the fragrance today.The worlds leading creatives have lent their talents to the perfumes advertising campaigns, which are given...

This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by brief biographical profiles of Marc Jacobs, the first creative director 1998-2014, and Nicolas Ghesquiere, who helms the brand today, before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by...

This beautifully produced volume presents 160 images by leading female photographers such as Nan Goldin, Sarah Moon, Brigitte Niedermair, Coco Capitan, Vanina Sorrenti, Julia Hetta, Katerina Jebb, Zoe Ghertner, and Bettina Rheims. The women creators featured among these pages represent the breadth of style...

Elegantly enclosed by a hardback cover and ribbon, Megans beautiful illustrations follow Dior through three distinct chapters: the highs and lows of his early life, set against a backdrop of bohemian and wartime Paris; the couture house that he built into an empire in...

In this lavish collection Jerome Gautier collects the outstanding elements of Dior's style for every generation since 1947, pairing classic and contemporary photographs together with some exquisite rarities. Christian Dior New Look amazed the world as it emerged after wartime austerity, and reset the...

Cereal City Guide: Paris is a design-focused portrait of an iconic city, offering a distinctive look at the best museums, galleries, restaurants, and shops. Rather than a comprehensive directory of all there is to see and do, these Cereal City Guides offer instead an...

Rather than a comprehensive directory of all there is to see and do, these Cereal City Guides offer instead an edit of points of interest and venues that reflect Cereals values in both quality and aesthetic sensibility. Rich and Rosa have personally visited hundreds...

Cereal City Guide: London is a design-focused portrait of an iconic city, offering a distinctive look at the best museums, galleries, hotels, restaurants, and shops. Rather than a comprehensive directory of all there is to see and do, these Cereal City Guides offer instead...

The second installment in the Little Guides to Style series, featuring four stunning pocket-sized fashion books in one box set.Includes Little Book of Christian Louboutin, Little Book of Louis Vuitton, Little Book of Schiaparelli and Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent ƒ?ø?›???? telling the...

This gorgeous book designed by Arnell offers an in-depth look into Gucciƒ?ø?›???? s origins, identity, influence, and innovation, including fabrication methods and appropriation of signature materials, past and present, and its influence among high society and Hollywood. The book is a heartfelt and personalized...

Art meets science in this far-reaching catalogue of botanical illustration. Drawn from the vaults of the National Library of Vienna, these exquisite color reproductions range from 6th-century manuscripts to 19th-century masterpieces and celebrate both the skill of botanical artists and the abundance of natural...

This extraordinary volume blooms with color and inspiration, and includes rose portraits by Nick Knight, previously unpublished archival documents, exquisite details of embroidery and fabrics, perfumes, fashion sketches, and sublime fashion photographs. Flowers were also at the heart of Diorƒ?ø?›???? s fashion, from the...

Opening with a concise history of the house and brief biographical profiles of Westwood and her longtime collaborator Andreas Kronthaler, this spectacular volumeƒ?ø?›???? the seventh in the celebrated Catwalk seriesƒ?ø?›???? documents all of Westwoodƒ?ø?›???? s catwalk collections from 1981 to today. Short texts illuminating...

Here, the designer reveals his guiding philosophy and pursuit to uncover the profound sense of well-being that a home can evoke. These eighteen residences from an urban New York penthouse or Moscow apartment to a waterfront estate in New England, and from a Tokyo...