Fashion

The Fashion Yearbook 2021 Best of Campaigns, Editorials, and Covers

Julia Zirpel, Fiona Hayes

The international fashion world is not only a hotbed of creativity, but also a fast-moving and mercurial one. This book cherry-picks some of the most intriguing editorials, covers and campaigns of 2020 – and places them within the zeitgeist. In a year in which the carpet was swept out from under us, the sudden loss of stability also gave rise to new creativity, freedom, and surprise as fashion magazines began taking a more active political stance. Presented here in detail are the inspiring minds – photographers, stylists, models, editors, et al. – behind this sudden change in paradigm. This compilation was selected by an international jury of 12 that includes Ariel Foxman, former Editor-in-Chief of InStyle, Donald Schneider, former art director of French Vogue and creative mind of the H&M designer collaborations, Sara Maino, Deputy Director of Vogue Italia and head of Vogue Talents, and street-style icon and influencer Veronika Heilbrunner.

The Fashion Yearbook 2021 is a précis of the protagonists behind the scenes in an impressive illustrated book – a new standard work for the fashion industry.

The Fashion Yearbook 2021 is a unique standard work in the fashion industry and presents the best editorials, covers and campaigns of 2020, chosen by a jury of international experts.

9783766725103

Callwey 300 x 230mm. 240pp., 250 col. Available £55.00, Hardback

Rebel Stylist Caroline Baker - The Woman Who Invented Street Fashion

Iain R. Webb

Caroline Baker is the antidote to high fashion. As the legendary fashion editor of Nova magazine in the 1960s, her style was quite literally cutting-edge (she famously chopped up clothes to achieve her desired looks). She is credited with challenging the status quo of the industry and society at large, and introducing street fashion to the mass market. Stylist-of-choice for the most dynamic female designers on the scene – Katharine Hamnett and Vivienne Westwood – Caroline has continued her trajectory as a fashion provocateur. Her work has appeared on the pages of Vogue, Tatler and Cosmopolitan as well as The Face and i-D – and unsurprisingly, a new generation of stylesetters is now looking to Baker’s back catalogue for inspiration.

This book offers an in-depth overview of Baker’s work, expertly curated and considered by Iain R. Webb. It is divided into sections that highlight specific recurring themes and tropes – such as Punk Rock, DIY, Utility and Sportswear. These ideas have defined Baker’s evolving sartorial vocabulary over six decades, and set a template for street fashion that endures to this day.

“I have always been inspired by what was happening on the street – and anyway, I couldn’t afford the high fashion price tags.” – Caroline Baker

9781788841481

ACC Art Books 270 x 215mm. 272pp., 300 col. October 2021 £30.00, Paperback

Shoes Tiny Folio

Raissa Bretaña

Christian Dior famously noted that “the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.” From the surprisingly sexy boots hiding under Victorian crinolines to the glittering T-strap heels worn by flappers dancing the Charleston, a woman’s shoe choice has long been far more than a mundane practicality. Indeed, a beautifully shaped shoe can be a statement of wealth, style, or sexuality – and often all at once.

This petite volume presents 250 eye-catching examples from the 17th century to the present, including many of today’s top designers such as Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Roger Vivier, and Nicholas Kirkwood. Fashion historian Raissa Bretaña introduces each new era with a concise overview of the period’s fashionable styles and innovations. A must for shoe collectors and a delight for any fashionista, this Tiny Folio™ will inspire you to put your best foot forward.

This petite volume presents 250 eye-catching examples from the 17th century to the present, including many of today’s top designers such as Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Roger Vivier, and Nicholas Kirkwood.

9780789214140

Abbeville Press 102 x 102mm. 288pp., Col. October 2021 £9.99, Hardback

Exploding Fashion Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Twentieth-Century Fashion

Alistair O’Neill

Exploding Fashion examines the impact of innovative pattern-cutting in several key examples of 20th century fashion design. With over 200 illustrations, it ‘explodes’ designs by 6 game-changing fashion designers from the world’s leading fashion houses, and reverse engineers them in order to understand how they work.

Written by a curator and professor at Central Saint Martins, London’s premier college of art and design, this is the first comprehensive exploration of how a traditional design process can enter into a dialogue with new concepts, illuminating haute couture and prêt-à-porter methods for a visually-driven digital age.

The first comprehensive book to examine the impact of innovative pattern-cutting in key examples of 20th century design, written by a curator and professor at London’s Central Saint Martins.

9789401476058

Lannoo Publishers 260 x 210mm. 304pp., 180 col., 40 b.&w. September 2021 £45.00, Hardback

This beautifully illustrated book presents the permanent collection of Antwerp’s renowned fashion museum (MoMu), and offers an overview of the most important protagonists of Belgian fashion from the 1970s to today.

It includes photographs of the exhibitions which took place at the museum between 2002 and 2018, and is supplemented by a selection from the museum’s historical collection of clothing from the 18th and 19th centuries. Designers featured include Raf Simons, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk van Saene, Dries Van Noten, Martin Margiela, and Dirk Bikkembergs, among many others.

9789401474153

Lannoo Publishers 290 x 230mm. 448pp., 350 col., 150 b.&w. September 2021 £59.00, Hardback A beautifully illustrated book presenting the permanent collection of Antwerp’s renowned fashion museum (MoMu), with an overview of the most important protagonists of Belgian fashion from the 1970s to today.

Emotion Fashion in Transition

Kaat Debo, Alistair O’Neill, Caroline Evans

In this timely book, three noted fashion historians examine the global transformations in the fashion industry today, and identify the challenges of the future. Since the dawn of designer fashion at the beginning of the 20th century, the role and position of the designer has drastically changed.

Emotion: Fashion in Transition addresses how the interpretation of creativity, authorship, craft, and innovation have evolved in this new context, and asks what role designers play in a globalised and digitised fashion world.

9789401476041

Lannoo Publishers 300 x 230mm. 256pp., 180 col., 75 b.&w. September 2021 £50.00, Hardback