The Fashion Book - (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

The iconic bestseller - showcasing more than 500 of fashion's greatest names by A- Z - now updated in a stunning new edition

Fully revised and updated for 2020, this new edition of Phaidon's iconic global bestseller The Fashion Book takes a fresh look at the fashion world and the people who created and inspired it. Spanning almost 200 years, the entire industry is represented: from designers to photographers, stylists, and retailers, as well as editors and creative directors. Marking significant changes on the fashion landscape, this revised edition features important new names who have fundamentally shaped the way we see fashion in recent years, including Virgil Abloh, Gosha, and Alessandro Michele, influential image-maker Petra Collins, model and contemporary icon Rihanna, and Leandra Medine, alongside fashion pioneers of the previous edition such as Coco Chanel, Issey Miyake, Kate Moss, Erdem, and Richard Avedon. This bestselling - and now updated - classic volume remains a comprehensive and definitive view of the fashion industry today.

Review Quotes

In Phaidon's updated edition of The Fashion Book, modern luminaries like Rihanna and Alessandro Michele join classics like Halston --Vanity Fair

Consider this a quick fix to boost your fashion knowledge - fashion 101 if you will... this is the updated and expanded version of the Phaidon fashion bible... with the UK fashion industry now worth £26bn a year, its good to know who's behind the clothes we wear. --The Sunday Times STYLE

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Conceieved and edited by Phaidon editors