Fashion Illustrator Gladys Perint Palmer’s New Book, Adam & Yves
To say Gladys Perint Palmer has an eye for fashion is an understatement. The illustrator, who studied at both Central Saint Martins in London and Parsons The New School of Design before having her...
View ArticleStylish Syllabus: Ten Essential Fashion Books for Fall
This time of year, the world is already training its eyes on the spring runways and the season ahead, but a host of new titles offers a refreshing perspective on some of fashion’s most fascinating...
View ArticleHumans of New York’s New Book Showcases Singular Style and Stories
Today marks the debut of the first-ever Humans of New York book (St. Martin’s Press), a coffee table tome that features 400 photographs and poignant captions from Brandon Stanton’s popular blog of the...
View ArticleGiambattista Valli’s Valli Girls Share Their Favorite Looks
Giambattista Valli’s sublime 392-page coffee table book just hit stores and to celebrate, Vogue.com asked the designers’ beloved Valli Girls to share their most memorable looks. The post Giambattista...
View ArticleCherryBombe’s Second Issue Is a Treat
Last night, on what felt like one of the last balmy evenings of the year, CherryBombe celebrated the release of its second issue atop the Jane hotel, where Justine D. (a DJ turned pastry chef,...
View ArticlePhotographer Gregory Crewdson’s New Monograph
Some images are so deeply ingrained in the American vernacular, they jolt us with their familiarity. A major new monograph, Gregory Crewdson (Rizzoli), with an introduction by Nancy Spector and a...
View ArticleThe Perfect Gift Books for the Literary It Girl
For literary It girls, what could be a more fitting gift than the life of a glamorous iconoclast? A new edition of Paul Morand’s The Allure of Chanel (Pushkin Press), drawn from the novelist’s...
View ArticleMytheresa.com Celebrates Valentino’s New Accessories Book at Berlin’s Neues...
To Berlin, for a night with Nefertiti—in a manner of speaking. Valentino and Susanne and Christoph Botschen, owners of the Munich online store Mytheresa.com, joined together to persuade the Neues...
View ArticleCalifornia Dreaming: Judy Kameon’s Gardens are for Living Introduces...
Landscape designer Judy Kameon’s beautiful book of work, Gardens Are For Living: Design Inspiration for Outdoor Spaces (Rizzoli), belies the author’s sixties childhood in sunny, mid-century...
View ArticleDries Van Noten: The Book that Accompanies the Exhibit that Celebrates the...
“There’s no such thing as too much Dries,” said a colleague—though she needn’t have. She was preaching to the choir, and these last few months there has been a lot to sing about. The glory started...
View ArticleA New Book Juxtaposes Cecil Beaton’s Portraits With His Observations About...
Cecil Beaton photographed the creative luminaries of the twentieth century—women and men of style, writers and musicians, artist and actors—his iconic portraits captured his subjects’ unique...
View ArticleDesign Duo Casamidy Publish Their First Book, The Artisanal Home
The Brussels-based design duo Casamidy, otherwise known as Anne-Marie Midy and Jorge Almada, are aesthete-beloved for their handcrafted furnishings made in San Miguel de Allende that embrace the...
View ArticleValentino Rewrites the Rulebook on Haute Cuisine in a New Book
Last summer—before one of the glittering black-tie dinners that he holds during the couture in a ravishing moated castle where Louis XIV installed his mistress Louise de la Vallière—I lost myself in...
View ArticleA Selfie-bration in Honor of Kim Kardashian West’s Upcoming Book
It’s officially a selfie-bration: Today, Kim Kardashian West released the cover image of her forthcoming coffee-table book, Kim Kardashian Selfish (Rizzoli), a compilation of the countless images she...
View ArticleHave You Seen Karl Lagerfeld? Fashion’s Answer to Where’s Waldo Is Here
It all started at Café de Flore. On a picturesque corner of the Boulevard Saint-Germain, the onetime postwar intellectuals’ hangout is filled with designers and editors, trading Fashion Week gossip...
View ArticleGrace Coddington Fans, Rejoice: Her Epic Thirty Years of Fashion Book Is...
When Edition 7L, Karl Lagerfeld’s copublishing arm with Steidl, unveiled Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue in 2002, the fashionable world went wild. With a limited print run, bookshop shelves...
View ArticleA House Less Ordinary: Tour TNT’s Extraordinary Family Castle
10 View slideshow Photo: © Todd Eberle from House of Thurn und Taxis, Rizzoli, 2015 From an early age, I knew my childhood was a little different. None of my classmates, for instance, made their way...
View ArticleLife With Ziggy Stardust: A Legendary Music Lensman on Shooting David Bowie
At times it’s easy to forget that David Bowie is not, in fact, a lean, extraterrestrial rock god sent down to bless us mortals with the gift of glam. Not so, one assumes, for Mick Rock, who bore more...
View ArticleA New Reason to Love Quilts Again
Expand Photo: © RED & WHITE QUILTS: Infinite Variety, presented by the American Folk Art Museum, Skira Rizzoli, 2015 These days, quilting is most often associated with olden times. A patchwork...
View ArticleCurated by André Leon Talley, SCAD’s Oscar de la Renta Retrospective Is Now...
Despite his global success and his well-earned reputation as a bon vivant on two—or maybe even three!—continents, Oscar de la Renta never lost his disarming modesty. As he traveled around America...
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