As well as keeping comprehensive files I also have my own fashion and film library.
Below is a list of all my fashion and film books which are invaluable for reference,
research and inspiration.
Fashion
- The London Fashion Book - Andrew Tucker
- Fashion Show Paris Style - MFA - Malcolm Rogers
- China: Through the Looking Glass - Andrew Bolton
- Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers - Georgina O'Hara Callan
- Fashion - A Crash Course - Andrew Tucker and Tamsin Kingswell
- High Heels Fashion Femininity Seduction - Ivan Vartanian
- Vintage Fashion - Emma Baxter-Wright
- Fashion of Film - Amber Jane Butchart
- Jazz Age Beauties - Robert Hudovernik
- Art Deco Fashion - Suzanne Lussier
- Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation: 1918-1940 - D J Taylor
- Flappers - Judith Mackrell
- Bright Young Things - Alison Maloney
- The Twenties - Alan Jenkins
- The Twenties in Vogue - Carolyn Hall
- 1920s Jazz Age Fashion and Photographs - Martin Pel
- 1920s Style - How To Get The Look Of The Decade - Caroline Cox, Marnie Fogg and Kate Mulvey
- Seventies Glamour - David Wills
Fashion Writing
- How To Walk In High Heels - Camilla Morton
- A Girl For All Seasons - Camilla Morton
Fashion Stores
- The House of Liberty - Masters of Style and Decoratiion - Stephen Calloway
- The World of Mr Selfridge the Glamour and Romance -Alison Maloney
- Shopping and Seduction - Mr Selfridge - Lindy Woodhead
- Visual Merchandising - Tony Morgan
Fashion Designers / Houses
- Vogue On Elsa Schiaparelli - Judith Watt
- The World of Coco Chanel - Friends Fashion Fame - Edmonde Charles-Roux
- Chanel - Francois Baudot
- Dior - Marie-France Pochna
- Yves Saint Laurent - Pierre Berget
- Halston - Stephen Bluttal
- Galliano: Romantic, Realist and Revolutionary - Colin McDowell
- Vivienne Westwood -Vivienne Westwood and Ian Kelly
- Vivienne Westwood -Linda Watson
- Alexander McQueen - Chloe Fox
- Alexander McQueen - V&A -Claire Wilcox
- Fashion, Print and Colouring Boo - Matthew Williamson
Jewellery
- The Colour Treasury of Gemstones - Dr Eduard Gubelin
- Crystal and Gem - Dr R F Symes and Dr R R Harding
- Vintage Jewellery - Caroline Cox
- Miller's Costume Jewellery - Judith Miller
- Costume Jewelry In Vogue - Jane Mulvagh
Style
- Mastering Fashion Styling - Jo Dingemans
- Runway Uncovered - The Making of a Fashion Show - Estel Vilaseca
- Influence - Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen
- Vintage Style: 25 Iconic Fashion Looks and How To Get Them - Sarah Kennedy
- Hollywood Costume - Deborah Nadoolman Landis
- Classic Hollywood Style - Caroline Young
- Hollywood The Glamour Years 1919-1941 - Robin Langley Sommer
- Those Glorious Glamour Years: Great Hollywood Costume Design of the 1930s - Margaret J Bailey
- Harpers Bazaar - Great Style - Jenny Levin
- Grown-up Glamour - Caroline Cox
- Parisian Style
Fashion Stylists
- Secrets of Stylists - Sasha Charnin Morrison
- Stylist - The Interpreters of Style - Sarah Mower
- Blow By Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow - Detmar Blow with Tom Sykes
- Grace - A Memoir - Grace Coddington
- Irreverent - Carine Roitfeld
- Style A to Zoe - Rachel Zoe
- The Fashion File - Janie Bryant
- Sex and The City - Kiss and Tell - Amy Sohn
- Sex and The City - The Movie - Amy Sohn
Fashion Photography
- Fashion Photography - Bruce Smith
- The Art of the Great Hollywood Photographers - John Kobal
- In Vogue - Six Decades of Fashion - Georgina Howell
- The Art of Vogue Photographic Covers - Valerie Lloyd
- Unseen Vogue - The Secret History of Fashion Photography - Robin Derrick and Robin Muir
- People in Vogue - A Century of Portraits - Robin Derrick and Robin Muir
Fashion Photographers
- Lee Miller in Fashion - Becky E Conekin
- Femme Fatale - Serge Normant
- A Gun for Hire - Helmut Newton
- Michael Doster 80s/90s - Michael Doste
- Fraulein - Ellen Von Unwerth and Ingrid Sischy
- Tim Walker: Story Teller - Robin Muir and Tim Walker
Fashion Models and Muses
- Muses Women Who Inspire - Farid Abdelouahab
- 20th Century Muse - Annette and Luc Vezin
- Runway Madness - Robin Givhan
- Catwalking - A History of the Fashion Model - Harriet Quick
- Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion - Harold Koda and Khole Yohannan
- Vogue Model - Robin Derrick and Robin Muir
- Arthur Elgort's Models Manual
- Models Close-Up - David Bailey
- Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend - Karen Essex and James L Swanson
- Edie - Jean Stein
- Edie Girl On Fire - Melissa Painter and David Weisman
- Twiggy (1975) - Twiggy
- Veruschka - Trans-Figurations - Vera Lehndorff and Holger Trulzsch
- Marisa Berenson: A Life in Pictures - Marisa Berenson and Hamish Bowles
- I am Iman - Iman
- Marie Helvin - The Autobiography
- Catwalk - Marie Helvin
- No Lifeguard on Duty - Janice Dickenson
- Thing of Beauty - The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia - Stephen Fried
- Kate - Kate Moss
- Kate Moss Style Angela Buttolph
Beauty
- Decades of Beauty - Kate Mulvey and Melissa Richards
- Scavullo on Beauty - Francesco Scavullo
- Beauty Photograhy in Vogue - Martin Harrison
- Vogue Body and Beauty Book - Bronwen Meredith
- Pretty - The Nylon Book of Beauty - Fiorella Valdesolo
Make Up
- Beauty and Cosmetics 1550 to 1950 - Sarah Jane Downing
- War Paint - Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein - Lindy Woodhead
- Max Factor The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World - Fred E Basten
- Disco Beauty - Sandy Linter
- Make Up Wake Up - Lois Johnson and Sandy Linter
- The Art of Makeup - Kevin Aucoin
Hair
- The Vogue Book of Blondes - Kathy Phillips
- Hair Style - Amy Fine Collins
- Hair - Sam Mcknight
Perfume
- The Romantic Story of Scent - John Trueman
- Fragrance and Fashion
- The Essence of Perfume - Roja Dove
Art
- Dictionary of Art and Artists - Thames & Hudson
- The Illustrated History of Art
- Pre-Raphaelite Women - Jan Marsh
Artists
- Arthur Rackham A Life With Illustration - James Hamilton
- J W Waterhouse - Anthony Hobson
- Passion by Design - The Art and Times of Tamara De Lempicka - Baroness Kizette De Lempicka
- Lempicka - Gilles Néret
- Picasso Creator and Destroyer - Arianna Stassino Poulos Huffington
- Picasso's Women - Roy Macgregor-Haste
- The Warhol Look - Francis King
- Fallen Angels - Paintings by Jack Vetriano
- Lovers and Strangers - Paintings by Jack Vetriano
- Dancers - Donald Hamilton Fraser
- Allen Jones - RA
Fashion Illustration
- Fashion Drawings in Vogue - Rene Bouet-Willaumez
- Fashion Illustration Today - Nicholas Drake
- Anna Piaggi A Fashion Journal - Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion Illustrators
- Divinely Elegant- The World of Ernst Dryden - Anthony Lipmann
- Antonio's People - Paul Caranicas
- Joe Eula - Master of Twentieth Century Fashion Illustration - Cathy Horyn
- Masters of Fashion Illustration - David Downton
Dance
- Ziegfeld Follies - Marjorie Farnsworth
- The Ballet Goer's Guide - Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp
- Stories from the Ballet - Margaret Greaves and Lisa Kopper
- The Red Shoes: TCM British Film Guide - Mark Connelly
- Tutu - Greg Barrett
- Alvin Ailey American Dance - Ailey Ascending A Portrait In Motion - Judith Jamison and Anna Deveare Smith
Film
- Movies - A Crash Course - John Naughton
- Preview Annual 1948
- Preview Annual 1949
- Picturegoer Annual 1954-55
- The Film Show Annual
- Hollywood Glamour Portraits - 145 Photos of Stars 1926 - 1949 - John Kobal
- Quinlan's Film Stars - The Ultimate Guide to Stars of the Big Screen - David Quinlan
- Close-Ups - The Movie Star Book - Danny Peary
Theatre
- Theatre - A Crash Course - Rob Graham
- Acting and Theatre - Cheryl Evans and Lucy Smith
- British Theatre Design - The Modern Age - John Goodwin
- Stage Crafts - Chris Hoggett
- Masterpiece Theatre - A Celebration of 25 Years of Outstanding Television - Terrence O' Flaherty
- Burlesque and the Art of the Teese - Dita Von Teese
- Josser Days and Nights in the Circus - Nell Stroud
Actresses
- Love Goddesses of the Movies - Roger Manwell
- Leading Ladies - Don MacPherson and Lousie Brody
- Hammer Glamour - Marcus Hearn
- Lulu in Hollywood - Louise Brooks
- Louise Brooks - Lulu Forever - Peter Cowie
- Will There Really Be a Morning - Francis Farmer
- Judy & Liza- James Spada
- Ava - My Story - Ava Gardner
- Ava Gardner - John Daniell
- The Complete Films of Rita Hayworth - Gene Ringgold
- Metamorphosis Marilyn Monroe - David Wills and Stephen Schmidt
- Brigitte Bardot My Life In Fashion - Henry-Jean Savant
- Thank Heaven: My Autobiography - Leslie Caron
- The Films of Shirley MacLaine - Christopher Paul Denis
- Played Out - The Jean Seberg Story - David Richards
- Fonda - Her Life in Pictures - James Spada
- Under the Rainbow - The Real Liza Minnelli - George Mair
- A Story Lately Told - Anjelica Huston
- Watch Me - Anjelica Huston
- Some of Me - Isabella Rossellini
- Looking at Me - Isabella Rossellini
- Monica Bellucci - Monica Bellucci
- Other People's Shoes - Harriet Walter
- Brutus and Other Heroines - Playing Shakespeare's Roles for Women - Harriet Walter
- In the Frame My Life In Words and Pictures - Helen Mirren
Actors
- The Films of Gene Kelly - Song and Dance Man - Tony Thomas
- Al Pacino - A Life on the Wire - Andrew Yule
- The Films of Al Pacino - William Schoell
Musicians
- Deep in a Dream - The Long Night of Chet Baker - James Gavin
- Ella Fitzgerald 1917-1996 - Stuart Nicholson
- Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday
- Billie Holiday - The Tragedy and Triumph of Lady Day - Leslie Gourse
- Nina Simone - Break Down and Let It All Out - Sylvia Hampton and David Nathan
- Lena: The Reach For Stardom - Lena Horne, Richard Stokes and Richard Schickel
- Erykah Badu - The First Lady of Neo-Soul - Joel McIver
- Faithfull - Marianne Faithfull and David Dalton
- Just Kids - Patti Smith
- The Rise, The Fall, And The Rise - Brix Smith Start
- Making Tracks - The Rise of Blondie - Debbie Harry Chris Stein and Victor Bockris
- Blondie - Lester Bangs
- Blondie Unseen 1976 - 1980 - Roberta Bayley
- Face It - Debbie Harry
- Madonna Style - Carol Clerk
- Lady Gaga Strange and Beautiful - Laura Coulman
- Lady Gaga - Terry Richardson
- Je T'aime the Legendary Love Story of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg - Veronique Mortaigne
- Life - Keith Richards
- Moonage Daydream - The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust - Mick Rock and David Bowie
