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Which fashion books to take on vacation? The stories of the life of the most famous designers, but also the novels that portray the most creative scenes and describe, page after page, the everyday life of that glossy and glamorous world that makes us dream so much.
Retrace the stages of the career of Giorgio Armani and discover how her minimal aesthetic was born, dive into the Paris of the thirties to find yourself experiencing the creative rivalry of two women who changed history: Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli. And then, again, discover the myth Gianni Versace and follow him from Reggio Calabria to conquer the world. Know the cobbler of dreams, Salvatore Ferragamoand the aviator stylist Emilio Pucci who started his career almost by accident, noticed by a journalist on a Zermatt ski slope with a friend, for whom he had designed a colorful ski suit. And identify with the young Parisian Clara and participate in the first fashion show of Christian Dior in Avenue Montaigne (the one that consecrated the birth of New Look.
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After all, aren’t books really for this purpose? To live other lives, travel through time and cancel distances. Here we have collected 15 books on fashion that will make you daydream, comfortably seated on your sunbed on the beach or on some green lawn in the mountains.
Happy summer of reading!
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The cobbler of dreams by Salvatore Ferragamo – Electa
Why buy it?
To find out how much passion this man has put into his work as a “shoemaker”. A new, renewed edition of the designer’s autobiography that made Italian fashion famous all over the world (his shoes were loved by Hollywood divas, from Ingrid Bergman to Lauren Bacall).
Cost: € 22.90 -
Visionary. Me, Coco Chanel by Elisabetta Lubrani – CdM Edizioni
Why buy it?
To understand more of the fashion that made her iconic, through the story of her life. A journey through friendships, loves and passions for art and travel. Everything that made her Coco.
Cost: € 17.10 -
Emilio Pucci the aviator stylist by Enrico Mannucci – Diarkos
Why buy it?
To discover the fascinating life of the Marquis Emilio Pucci who became a stylist almost by chance: in 1947, during a holiday in Zermatt, the photographer of Harper’s Bazaar immortalized a colorful jumpsuit he designed for a friend, everything else is history… of fashion.
Cost: € 18.05
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The girl wore Dior by Annie Goetzinger – Bao Publishing
Why buy it?
To catapult into the world of Clara, a young Parisian fashion journalist, who attends the first fashion show of a certain Christian Dior on Avenue Montaigne and thus sees the birth of the New Look.
Cost: € 18.04 -
Cretins are never elegant. Giorgio Armani in his own words curated by Paola Pollo – Rizzoli
Why buy it?
To get to know King Giorgio up close, through the authoritative portrait of Paola Pollo, signed by Corriere della Sera and fashion expert. A personal story created through the designer’s thoughts, statements and famous phrases over the years.
Cost: € 16.15 -
Game over. Lights and shadows on my family by Allegra Gucci – Piemme
Why buy it?
To discover directly from the voice of one of the protagonists, the daughter of Maurizio Gucci and Patrizia Reggiani, the history of the Florentine fashion family.
Cost: € 17.57
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Prada life by Gian Luigi Paracchini – Baldini + Castoldi
Why buy it?
To fully understand the Prada phenomenon, starting from the meeting of the two souls of the brand: Miuccia and Patrizio Bertelli.
Cost: € 15.20 -
The Versace myth. A biography by Minnie Gastel – Baldini + Castoldi
Why buy it?
To discover, through the voices and testimonies of those who knew him, the birth of a myth: from Reggio Calabria to international fame.
Cost: € 16.15 -
Coco Chanel’s latest rival by Jeanne MacKin – Rizzoli
Why buy it?
To take a dip in the Paris of the thirties and get to know two women who have marked an era up close, two couturiers who have become legendary: Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli.
Cost: € 19
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DV by Diana Vreeland – Donzelli
Why buy it?
To discover the world of fashion seen from your journalist’s eyes. His career began in the 1930s in a lingerie boutique (his) and continued in the most important glossy magazines, before Harper’s Bazaar and then Vogue.
Cost: € 17.10 -
Being Armani. A biography by Renata Molho – Baldini + Castoldi
Why buy it?
To read an authoritative portrait of the designer who changed the aesthetics of fashion. His passions for architecture, cinema and that secret side that hides behind the myth.
Cost: € 17.10 -
Karl Lagerferl, a German in Paris by Alfons Kaiser – Odoya
Why buy it?
To retrace the life of one of the greatest designers of our time, from when he was little and loved to draw in the attic to the latest successes.
Cost: € 20.90
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Gigliola Curiel. A life in fashion by Gaetano Castellini Curiel – The Letters
Why buy it?
To learn the story of an enterprising and strong woman who, after the war, created a sartorial brand becoming one of the most popular Italian designers of the postwar period.
Cost: € 15.67 -
The woman I wanted to be. Family, love, beauty and fashion by Diane von Furstenberg and Marco Zonetti – Marsilio
Why buy it?
The story of the designer who, from Brussels, conquered America. From parties at Studio 54 in New York to the birth of the iconic wrap dress, which launched it in the fashion world.
Cost: € 15.46 -
The trajectory by Alessandro Benetton – Mondadori
Why buy it?
Alessandro Benetton’s life was, like everyone’s, an obstacle race, between ups and downs, in search of a path, the trajectory. A biography that is also an incentive to leave, in search of one’s own path.
Cost: € 20.90
Source: Vanity Fair
