14 Fashion Books to Gift This Holiday Season - Vogue

There is no better present than a good read, and for the fashion lovers on your list, this holiday season is chock-full of delights. Take, for instance, Annie Leibovitz’s Wonderland, compiling her most enchanting fashion imagery, or Slim Aarons: Style by Shawn Waldron and Kate Betts, which teems with photographs of the very chicest subjects of Aarons’s fascination (C.Z. Guest, Nan Kempner, Marisa Berenson, and Oscar de la Renta among them). Iain R. Webb’s Rebel Stylist: Caroline Baker—The Woman Who Invented Street Fashion captures the lightning-in-a-bottle brilliance of a rule-breaking fashion editor, while The United States of Fashion: A New Atlas of American Style celebrates American designers of all stripes working in cities as various as Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Santa Fe, Nashville, and Flint, Michigan.

For those riveted by little-known lives, there’s Caroline Bongrand’s Louis Vuitton: L’audacieux, serving up a fictionalized account of Mr. Vuitton’s life in 19th-century France, and Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture, charting the triumphs and travails of Christian Dior’s heroic youngest sister, Catherine. The stylish guys in your life are covered too: Tom Ford has a new book coming out, the film and fashion scholar Llewella Chapman has cast her critical eye on the costuming of James Bond, and Phaidon has created an guide to the 500 greatest names in men’s fashion.

Browse all these picks—and more!—in the list below.

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