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The Fashion Editor

The Bookshelf.

Photography, memoir, and the women who ran fashion editorial for decades. Eight books for the Fashion Editor apartment — the ones stacked on the dining table under a vase of branches.

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000Avedon
Helmut Newton. LegacyNewton
D.V.Vreeland
Grace: A MemoirCoddington
Fashion ClimbingCunningham
Avedon Fashion
Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Richard Avedon

The definitive career survey. The reason there's motion and contrast on every wall in this apartment.

Legacy
Photography

Helmut Newton. Legacy

Helmut Newton

A career-spanning survey of Newton's fashion, portrait, and nude photography — elegance, seduction, and a surprising sense of humor.

D.V.
Memoir

D.V.

Diana Vreeland

The Harper's Bazaar and Vogue editor's own telling — unreliable, glamorous, and the source of half the one-liners fashion editors still quote.

Grace: A Memoir
Memoir

Grace: A Memoir

Grace Coddington

Vogue's creative director on four decades of shoots, from her modeling days through the images that made her a character in her own right.

Fashion Climbing
Memoir

Fashion Climbing

Bill Cunningham

The New York Times street-style photographer's memoir, found and published after his death. Funny, plainspoken, and full of hat-making stories.

The Chiffon Trenches
Memoir

The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir

André Leon Talley

Five decades inside fashion's inner circle, from Warhol's Interview to the front row at Vogue — warm about the work, unsparing about the people.

In Vogue
History

In Vogue: An Illustrated History

Alberto Oliva & Norberto Angeletti

A century of the magazine cover to cover — the photographers, editors, and covers that built the vocabulary of fashion photography.

Peter Lindbergh
Photography

Peter Lindbergh: On Fashion Photography. 45th Ed.

Peter Lindbergh

More than 300 images from four decades of Lindbergh's humanist, cinematic take on fashion photography, including the 1988 White Shirts series shot on a Malibu beach.