The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style
by Kim France |
The One Hundred
by Nina Garcia |
Alexander McQueen
by Kristin Knox | 
The Little Black Book of Style
by Nina Garcia | 
The House of Gucci
by Sara G. Forden |
A Guide to Elegance
by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux |
Deluxe
by Dana Thomas | 
The Coat Route
by Meg Lukens Noonan | 
Dressing Diana
by Tim Graham | 
Alexander McQueen
by Andrew Bolton | 
Chanel and Her World
by Edmonde Charles-Roux |
The Art of Dress
by Jane Ashelford | 
Adorned in Dreams
by Elizabeth Wilson |
Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail
by Lucy Johnston |
Dangerous Liaisons
by Harold Koda | 
D.V.
by Diana Vreeland | 
The Beautiful Fall
by Alicia Drake | 
The Power of Glamour
by Virginia Postrel |
Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail
by Avril Hart | 
The Little Dictionary of Fashion
by Christian Dior |
The time when "fashion" was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by elite has ended. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers and creativity is channeled more into mass-marketing clothes than into designing them. Indeed, one need look no further than the Gap to see proof of this. In The End of Fashion, Wall Street Journal, reporter Teri Agins astutely explores this seminal change, laying bare all aspects of the fashion industry from manufacturing, retailing, anmd licensing to image making and financing. Here as well are fascinating insider vignettes that show Donna Karan fighting with financiers,the rivalry between Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, and the commitment to haute conture that sent Isaac Mizrahi's business spiraling.