Colin McDowell Book order (chronological)

Lavishly illustrated with over 100 striking images, and original designer sketches, this is a definitive and celebratory book on Diana's transition from drindl to diva.

Max Mara, founded in 1951 by Achille Maramotti and today directed by his children Luigi, Ignazio and Maria Ludovica, is one of the most important fashion houses in the world. COATS! Max Mara, 55 Years of Italian Fashion is a journey through the history of fashion. The coat, the product which best symbolises Max Mara and brought it international recognition, is the key to this interpretation.

A kaleidoscopic, colourful and provocative survey of the fashion world. schovat popis

Showcases the works of revered shoe designer Manolo Blahnik, whose celebrity customers have made him famous, in a photographic tour that also includes images of his initial sketches, homes, factories, designs, and work spaces.

"From Ovid to Malcolm X, The Ladies Magazine to Punch, Mary Wollstone-craft to Anita Loos, William Hazlitt to D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Carlyle to Brett Easton Ellis, Fanny Burney to Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf to Milan Kundera, dress has stimulated comments at all levels - whether witty, ironic, moralistic, critical or simply sensual. Using letters, journals and memoirs, as well as novels, poetry and plays, and covering over four hundred years of writing, including British, Irish, American and European literature, The Pimlico Companion to Fashion is surely the ultimate collection about dress."

Celebrates generations of men who have dressed extravagantly in order to express their masculinity, joie de vivre, and non-conformist attitudes

A uniquely personal book about the most talented fashion designer of today - andone who is constantly in the news - written with his full collaboration.

Born Constance Simpson in Northumberland, she became Constance Castelfranco di Villanuova when she married an impoverished aristocrat and founded a fashion industry in Italy in the 1950s. Soon she was an international figure, but with the money and success came heartbreak and emptiness.