Catwalking: Photographs by Chris Moore

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Hubert de Givenchy’s reluctance to enter the media spotlight was most likely a contributing factor to the relative lack of recognition for his work, which the label’s heritage project, launched in 2016, and this book are seeking to redress.

He received lifetime achievement awards for his contribution to fashion from the British Fashion Council and Graduate Fashion Week, and received honorary doctorate awards from the University of the Arts London and Northumbria University. Introducing Le Smoking, the first tuxedo suit for women, in 1966, Saint Laurent also presented iconic art-inspired creations, from Mondrian dresses to precious Van Gogh embroidery and the famous Ballets Russes collection.Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with a gallery of carefully curated catwalk images. Featuring over 180 collections presented through original catwalk photography in a beautiful cloth-bound volume, the best-selling Chanel Catwalk was the first book to gather every Chanel collection ever created by Karl Lagerfeld in a single volume. In 1952, the Bettina blouse, as well as the separates, was widely copied; so too the black sweater printed with a snarling Rottweiler head that appeared in 2011, which can still be seen on streets right across the globe.

A dazzling and authoritative look at three decades of Prada’s groundbreaking fashion designs through stunning runway photography Founded in 1913 as a leather-goods house in Milan, Prada entered the field of fashion when Miuccia Prada took the helm of the company in 1979.More recently, Italian designer Riccardo Tisci took the brand into a resolutely contemporary direction following his appointment in 2005 (dressing icons such as Beyoncé), followed by Clare Waight Keller and American designer Matthew M. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.