FASHIONABLE THINGS TO READ

Sunday, September 18, 2011

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    Clockwise from Top Left: “Carine Roitfeld: Irreverent”, “Cecil Beaton: The New York Years” , “Daphne Guinness” , “Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures” and “Marisa Berenson: A Life in Pictures”

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    Clockwise from Top Left: “Ralph Lauren”, “Preppy: Cultivating Ivy Style”, “Christian Louboutin” and “Eleanor Lambert: Still Here”

“Carine Roitfeld: Irreverent”
By Carine Roitfeld, edited by Olivier Zahm and Alex Wiederin, contribution by Cathy Horyn
(Rizzoli, October, $100)

The former French Vogue editrix goes back to glossy in a thick volume of photos of herself and her anima.

“Marisa Berenson: A Life in Pictures”
By Marisa Berenson, edited by Steven Meisel and Jason Duzansky, contribution by Lina Bey
(Rizzoli, Oct. 11, 2011, $60)

Berenson has a peppering of things she is well known for: acting, modeling, famous lovers and her grandmother, Elsa Schiaparelli — all celebrated in this book.

“Cecil Beaton: The New York Years”
By Donald Albrecht, contribution by the Museum of the City of New York
(Rizzoli, October, $65)

The photographer and costume designer’s best New York moments in pictures and words, from himself and his friends.

“Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures”
By Deborah Turbeville, introduction by Franca Sozzani
(Rizzoli, October, $85)

Turbeville’s ethereal photos of avant-garde fashion are compiled into a volume and introduced by the editor of Vogue Italia.

“Daphne Guinness”
By Valerie Steele and Daphne Guinness
(Yale University Press, October, $45)

The Fashion Institute of Technology has just opened an exhibit on the muse, icon and heiress, thoroughly catalogued in a gorgeous hardcover.
 
“Ralph Lauren”
By Ralph Lauren, edited by Mary Randolph Carter
(Rizzoli, October, $50)

Ralph Lauren’s enormous coffee table book was first released as a limited edition in 2007, but comes in a smaller-format re-release updated to include his U.S. and Paris flagships.

“Eleanor Lambert: Still Here”
By John Tiffany
(Pointed Leaf Press, Sept. 7, 2011, $95)

The woman responsible for starting New York Fashion Week and the International Best-Dressed List — indeed, still with us — is photo-biographied in a new compendium.

“Preppy: Cultivating Ivy Style”
By Jeffrey Banks and Doria de la Chapelle, foreword by Lilly Pulitzer
(Rizzoli, October, $45)

In the past few years, prep has reached new heights of popularity, and who better to laud the style than the ultimate pastel-colored prepster, Lilly Pulitzer?
 
“Christian Louboutin”
By Christian Louboutin, foreword by John Malkovich, contribution by Eric Reinhardt, photographed by Philippe Garcia and David Lynch
(Rizzoli, October, $150)

Perhaps the most notorious soul of soles, Louboutin exhibits his company’s history and the many slick red bottoms he’s sent clacking into the world.

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Clockwise from Top Left: “Ralph Lauren”, “Preppy: Cultivating Ivy Style”, “Christian Louboutin” and “Eleanor Lambert: Still Here”