From Azzedine Alaïa, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel, to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood: a century’s worth of fashion greats from the permanent collection of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology are celebrated in this limited edition volume. With over 500 masterpieces in the art of fashion, each exclusive book is covered in fabric by one of six featured designers:

• Diane von Furstenberg
• Stella McCartney
• Prada
• Akris Missoni
• Etro
• Akris: Albert Kriemler

Author:
Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and founding editor of the journal Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. As author, curator, editor and public intellectual, Steele has been instrumental in the creation of the modern field of fashion studies.
Co-author:
Suzy Menkes, undisputed doyenne of the international fashion press, is head fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune.

»Fashion Designers A-Z«

Valerie Steele et al., foreword by Suzy Menkes, TASCHEN, 2012, 654 pp., hardcover in acrylic slipcase, 26.2 x 33.6 cm (10.3 x 13.2 in.), multilingual edition, ISBN 978-3-8365-4303-3, $ 350 / € 275 / £ 250
The edition features 110 portraits drawn by Robert Nippoldt.

“Valerie Steele is cerebral. For her, I think, fashion is a game of chess in high style … She has an ultra-sharp antenna for what will make history.”
— Ruben Toledo

Fashion designers featured include:
- Miuccia Prada
- Coco Chanel
- Karl Lagerfeld
- Yves Saint Laurent
- Valentino
- Dolce & Gabbana
- Givenchy
- Calvin Klein
- Ralph Lauren
- Vivienne Westwood
- Alexander McQueen
- Stella McCartney
- Gilbert Adrian
- Giorgio Armani
- Jean Paul Gaultier
- Gianni Versace
- Dries Van Noten
- Martin Margiela
- Hubert de Givenchy
- Helmut Lang
- Louise Boulanger
- Pierre Cardin
- Augusta Bernard