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'A must for every self-respecting and dedicated follower of fashion.' (Sunday Telegraph Magazine) 'An AZ of everything you could wish to know about the past 140 years of fashion. Models, moguls, designers and photographers are profiled and cross-referenced in this indispensable survey.' (Harpers & Queen) 'It is probably the most comprehensive fashion encyclopaedia for general consumption available. A must-buy for the fashion obsessive.' (Independent on Saturday) 'A masterly encyclopaedia.' (Tatler) 'A feast of fashion and cheaper by far than a designer garment.' (The Big Issue) 'An excellent guide to fashion in all its diversity.' (Irish Times) 'At last, at last, at last our prayers have been answered. Phaidon have come up with every fashion lover's dream, The Fashion Book, both beautiful and faultless.' (What's On in London) 'The fashion bible.' (Vogue) 'The ultimate fashion reference book.' (Elle)

The Fashion Book's production quality is a glossy-magazine junkie's dream - heavy, shiny white paper and graphically designed to within an inch of its life. And its content lives up to the way it looks - something of a rarity in the way of fashion books. It's essentially an A-Z of 500 movers and shakers in the fashion world, from Richard Avedon to Zoran, Balmain to Yamamoto. Its alphabetical format cuts through narrow categories and places models next to photographers, designers and fashion icons - where else would you find the late rock star Kurt Cobain next to Jean Cocteau? Enough pictures (one on every page) to be sumptuous, enough text (and glossaries and listings) to be informative - what more could you ask for? (Kirkus UK)

Repeats the successful format of The Art Book and The Photography Book, and features 500personalities of the fashion world. The Bookseller Fashion is such a huge subject, you need an encyclopaedia to get around it. And that's just what Phaidon has come up with: The fashion Book covers the 500 who have mattered since 1860 - the pictures are big, the text concise and there's even a glossary. Frank - a beautifully produced and organised reference book which follows hard in the heels of its other two mega-tomes The Art Book and The Photography Book. - It just displays before you, as if in some bookish equivalent of a cat-walk, one-page entries on the entire world of fashion - And the one-page entries, each consisting of a crisp paragraph or two, a large photograph and a caption with dates, are so cross-referenced that making your way through the encyclopaedia is like twisting and turning through the chicest of labyrinths. Just as fashion is emblematic of underlying social conditions and the changing mood of the times, so The Fashion Book is not simply just a history of threads or glimpses into a hothouse world. To exist, and to succeed, fashion needs to hit the right emotive button, to hold up a new, yet flattering mirror to the times in which it exists. And so The Fashion Book reflects the cavalcade of aspirations, dreams ans attitudes which have coloured the past century and a half. For GBP24.95 and with 512 pages of extremely well-organised information about the complex, unique world that is fashion, this is a book that will be a must for every self-respecting and dedicated follower of fashion. The Sunday Telegraph Magazine It's the only fashion book you need to buy this year. Looks

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