In her mid-twenties she made the unprecedented leap from Jazz-Age fashion model to fashion photographer, later became a celebrated Surrealist under the guidance of lover Man Ray, then joined the war effort during the second world war, documenting everything from the liberation of concentration camps to the abandoned apartment of Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress, for the pages of Vogue. Recognised as one of the most distinguished photographers of the 20th century, Lee Miller was a busy woman. Lee Miller in Fashion by Becky E Conekin, Thames & Hudson, £19.95 (September 2)/The Monacelli Press, $45 (published October 8) Special features: living, breathing art/fashion collaboration Daphne Guinness has written the foreword. In the fashion corner we have the likes of Marc Jacobs, Miuccia Prada, Hussein Chalayan and Viktor & Rolf – and for art’s sake, names such as Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Tracey Emin and Zaha Hadid. Does fashion want to be taken seriously? Does art want an invite to all the best parties? Who knows. Special features: weighty enough to double up as a handy doorstop.Īrt/Fashion in the 21st Century by Mitchell Oakley Smith and Alison Kubler, Thames & Hudson, £32 (published November 11)Īustralia-based Oakley Smith and Kubler chart the rise of the rapidly growing interplay between fashion and art over the past decade with 250 colour photographs of cool collaborations.
Aimed at fashion students and students of fashion alike. Packed with fascinating pub-quiz facts – ancient Greek women were the first to wear bras, white is the colour of mourning in India and shoes didn’t have different shapes for left and right feet until the 1860s – and more than 450 colour images of everything from henna tattoos and skin piercing to designs by Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen to paintings by Jan van Eyck and Michelangelo. The human body is at the heart of McDowell’s ambitious 358-page thesis on fashion, covering the development of dress over the past 40,000 years. The Anatomy of Fashion: Why We Dress the Way We Do by Colin McDowell, Phaidon, £59.95 (published October 2) Special features: the book comes with a cool sheet of stickers so you can personalise the cover. The plates are a mix of fashion editorial, advertising, art works and celebrity portraiture, including shots of Lady Gaga, Clint Eastwood, Gisele Bündchen, Rachel Weiss and Kate Moss. Tracing their career from the late 1980s, the book highlights the diversity of the pair’s work, which straddles art and fashion. This compilation of the work of Dutch photographers Lamsweerde and Matadin is a slimmed-down version of a limited-edition book that was priced at a hefty £450. Pretty Much Everything by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Taschen, £44.99 (published October) Special features: the subjects are arranged alphabetically rather than thematically – so Missoni’s iconic zigzag stripes are happily matched by the trademark pleats of Issey Miyake.
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