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Table Of Fashion Contents

Biography/Memoir
Business & Marketing
Critiques Of Fashion
Fashion Design
Fashion History
Personal Style
Photography & Coffee Table Books
Sustainability In Fashion
Working In Fashion

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Biography/Memoir

Purchase Anna: The Biography on Bookshop.
Purchase A Visible Man on Bookshop.
Purchase Betsey: A Memoir on Amazon.
Purchase Dapper Dan: Made In Harlem: A Memoir on Bookshop.

Purchase D.V. on Bookshop.
Purchase Fashion Climbing on Amazon.
Purchase Grace: A Memoir on Bookshop.
Purchase Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon on Bookshop.

Purchase King Of Fashion on Bookshop.
Purchase Paradise Now on Bookshop.
Purchase Shoe Dog on Bookshop.
Purchase The Cartiers on Bookshop.

Purchase The Chiffon Trenches on Bookshop.
Purchase The Master Of Us All on Amazon.
Purchase The Price Of Illusion on Bookshop.
Purchase The Woman I Wanted To Be on Bookshop.

Purchase Walking With The Muses: A Memoir on Bookshop.org

Business & Marketing

Purchase Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster on Amazon.
Purchase Hijacking The Runway on Amazon.
Purchase Soled Out on Bookshop.
Purchase The End Of Fashion on Bookshop.

Purchase The Kingdom Of Prep on Bookshop.

Critiques Of Fashion

Purchase Fashion Is Spinach on Bookshop.
Purchase The Language Of Fashion on Amazon.

Fashion Design

Purchase Fabric For Fashion: The Complete Guide on Amazon.
Purchase The Fashion Designer’s Textile Directory on Bookshop.

Fashion History

Purchase Champagne Supernovas on Bookshop.
Purchase Dressing The Resistance on Bookshop.
Purchase Empire Of Cotton on Amazon.
Purchase Fashion Journalism: History, Theory, and Practice on Bookshop.

Purchase Fashion Victims on Bookshop.
Purchase Gods and Kings on Amazon.
Purchase The Battle Of Versailles on Bookshop.
Purchase The Beautiful Fall on Bookshop.

Purchase The Golden Thread on Bookshop.
Purchase The Hidden History Of American Fashion on Bookshop.
Purchase The History Of Fashion Journalism on Amazon.
Purchase The House Of Gucci on Bookshop.

Purchase The Vanity Fair Diaries on Bookshop.

Personal Style

Purchase Dress Code on Bookshop.
Purchase Dressing The Man on Bookshop.
Purchase Dress With Sense on Amazon.
Purchase The Little Black Book Of Style on Amazon.

Purchase The Little Dictionary Of Fashion on Bookshop.
Purchase What Shall I Wear? on Bookshop.

Photography & Coffee Table Books

Purchase Africa: The Fashion Continent on Amazon.
Purchase Androgyne on Amazon.
Purchase Captivate on Bookshop.
Purchase Fashion In LA on Amazon.

Purchase Ganni: Gimme More on Bookshop.
Purchase John Galliano: Unseen on Bookshop.
Purchase Louis Vuitton: Catwalk on Amazon.
Purchase Supreme Models on Bookshop.

Purchase The Art Of Ruth E. Carter on Bookshop.
Purchase The New Black Vanguard on Bookshop.
Purchase Tom Ford on Bookshop.
Purchase Tom Ford 002 on Bookshop.

Purchase Vanity Fair: 100 Years on Bookshop.
Purchase Vogue & The Metropolitan Museum Of Art on Bookshop.
Purchase Vogue: The Editor’s Eye on Bookshop.

Sustainability In Fashion

Purchase Fashionopolis on Bookshop.
Purchase Overdressed on Amazon.
Purchase Sundressed on Bookshop.
Purchase To Dye For on Bookshop.

Purchase Unraveled on Amazon.
Purchase Worn Out on Bookshop.

Working In Fashion

Purchase The Most Beautiful Job In The World on Amazon.