The Fashion Art Books of 2015 You’ll Want on Your Shelves Long After the Year Is Over Inline
Photo: © Actes Sud/Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, 20141/26Yves Saint Laurent’s Studio: Mirror and Secrets
With many never-before-seen images of the master at work, this book is an exquisite invitation inside the legendary atelier of the master perhaps better known by his monogrammable initials. Dig into this YSL volume and you can say you have truly seen the studio where Le Smoking was born.
Photo: © Actes Sud/Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, 20142/26Yves Saint Laurent’s Studio: Mirror and Secrets
Photo: © Actes Sud/Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, 20143/26Yves Saint Laurent’s Studio: Mirror and Secrets
Photo: Courtesy of Hatje Cantz4/26The Belgians
You may want to keep this one close to your closet for daily inspiration. Featuring the Antwerp Six (including Dries Van Noten and Ann Demeeulemeester, who released her own retrospective in 2014) and moving on to current stars like Martin Margiela, A.F. Vandevorst, and Raf Simons, this is an encompassing overview of fashion’s astonishing masters of avant-garde, all of whom happened to emerge from Belgium.
Photo: Courtesy of Taschen / © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.6/26Andy Warhol: Polaroids 1958–1987
Warhol carried a Polaroid camera everywhere he went; he photographed everyone who came over to the Factory too. And of course, Andy went everywhere and Andy knew everyone. The instantly printed photo is like a still version of his famous screen tests and it is thanks to his habit of assiduously documenting his own life that we have this brilliantly casual record of how the original It girls and boys dressed in perennially cool Polaroid form.
Photo: Courtesy of Taschen / © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.7/26Andy Warhol: Polaroids 1958–1987
Photo: Courtesy of Taschen / © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.8/26Andy Warhol: Polaroids 1958–1987
Photo: Courtesy of Damiani9/26Stephen Sprouse: Xerox/Rock/Art
Very much in the world and spirit of Warhol is designer Stephen Sprouse, whose collectsed fashion sketches here reveal a portrait of the late ‘70s and ‘80s as he traversed the worlds of disco and punk, and inhabited the studios of Bill Blass and Halston. With a foreword by Debbie Harry, who along with Jackie Onassis, Patty Hearst, and Patti Smith, was one of Sprouse’s favorite muses of the era.
Photo: The Big Picture by Arthur Elgort, published by Steidl12/26Arthur Elgort: The Big Picture
Encapsulating the legendary photographer’s signature snapshot approach in the first retrospective look at his influential five-decade career, this volume is essential.
Collected here are some of Elgort’s most memorable fashion shoots for Vogue, Valentino, and Chanel, as well as a rare glimpse of personal work.
Photo: Courtesy of Taschen15/26Helmut Newton: Polaroids
Where, exactly, did all those risky, racy Helmut Newton shoots of the '70s, '80s, and '90s come from? The photographer who set off fashion’s most controversial images plotted out his silhouette-clinging black latex scenarios in Polaroids, and the best of them, plus some refreshingly fun offstage moments, are collectsed here.
Photo: Clifford Coffin / © Condé Nast archive18/26Vogue_: Like a Painting_
Sixty-seven fashion photographs from the Vogue archives meet their fine-art match when paired with the Pre-Raphaelite, Dutch, Victorian, and other paintings they reference, creating juxtapositions that are often subtle, startling, and altogether striking: a mood board drawn from the Old Masters.
Untitled, 1949
Photo: Erwin Olaf / © Galería Espacio Mínimo19/26Vogue_: Like a Painting_
Replica Handbag Store NL 06, 2013
Photo: © Peter Lindbergh Studio /20/26Vogue_: Like a Painting_
Aymeline Valade, Bette Franke,
Elza Luijendijk, and Zuzanna
Bijoch, Taormina, Sicily, 2012
Photo: Courtesy of Taschen21/26Mick Rock: Shooting for Stardust, The Rise of David Bowie & Co.
Photographer Mick Rock witnessed front row, backstage, and firsthand the earthly arrival of Ziggy Stardust, and the resulting style chameleon evolution of David Bowie’s glittering, out-of-this-world personas. As Rock told us earlier this year, Bowie “really set the model exemplar.”
Photo: Courtesy of Grace Coddington, Reprinted from Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Replica Handbag Store (Phaidon, 2015)24/26Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue
Originally released in 2002, the first edition of this retrospective of some of Grace Coddington’s most definitive cinematic work as a fashion editor and eventually Creative Director of this magazine quickly sold out; don’t miss it this time around.
Ellen von Unwerth: Christy Turlington, Keith Martin; hair, Peter Savic; USA, 1993.
Photo: Courtesy of Grace Coddington, Reprinted from Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Replica Handbag Store (Phaidon, 2015)25/26Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue
Peter Lindbergh: Naomi Campbell; hair, Julien D’Ys’ makeup, Stéphane Marais; USA, 1990
Photo: Courtesy of Grace Coddington, Reprinted from Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Replica Handbag Store (Phaidon, 2015)26/26Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue
Mario Testino: Gisele Bündchen, Frankie Rayder, Fernanda Tavares; hair, Marc Lopez; makeup, Kay Montano; Italy 1998.
