It’s been 50 years since the passing of Gabrielle Chanel, but her eponymous fashion house goes from strength to strength. From modest beginnings on Rue Cambon to monumental global success, discover the story of this timeless brand – and its iconic founder.
We spoke to legendary graphic artist, photographer and advertising film director Jean-Paul Goude, whose iconic Chanel campaigns are daring visual feasts. His extraordinary unseen drawings are collected in ‘Goude: The Chanel Sketchbooks’, giving unprecedented insight into a great creative mind.
In this video author Rebecca C. Tuite takes on a tour of her new book '1950s in Vogue: The Jessica Daves Years 1952-1962'.
Soak in the drama, glamour and wild imagination of Galliano's Dior shows in our photo essay.
Discover a treasure trove of early sketches, first student collections and fashion shoots by designers such as John Galliano, Stephen Jones, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo, Burberry’s Riccardo Tisci, Dior’s Kim Jones and more.
Central Saint Martins Programme Director of Fashion, Hywel Davies, and Cally Blackman, lecturer in Fashion History and Theory, sat down to discuss the influential fashion school, challenges facing today's fashion students and their new book 'Fashion Central Saint Martins'.
'Every Saint Laurent outfit was a story, a character from a film, a play or an opera.' Read an extract by Olivier Flaviano, Director of the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris.
'Yves Saint Laurent Catwalk' is the latest title in our Catwalk series, and the first ever comprehensive overview of Yves Saint Laurent's haute couture collections. Take a look at some of the iconic pieces in our photo essay.
What’s the secret to Marc Jacobs? Fashion writer and professor Iain R Webb explores the designer’s all-American pragmatism, reimagined classics, and that exquisite meeting of couture and grunge.
Pierre Le-Tan’s illustrations and Bertil Scali’s entertaining pen portraits tell the stories of the world’s most celebrated owners of Louis Vuitton luggage.