HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: Fashion & Art Books

December 5, 2021
With the holidays right around the corner, the pressure’s on to find gifts that will have a lasting impact. Let us help you give what the fashion and art lovers on your list really want: books filled with unique and beautiful works that will inspire them for years to come.
Photo: François Nars from Persona

FASHION BOOKS

Seventeen years after publishing his best-selling debut Tom Ford (2004), fashion icon and provocative American designer Tom Ford brings us his highly anticipated second book—a visual ode to his eponymous brand created in 2005.

Photo courtesy Tom Ford

Tom Ford and Tom Ford 002 slipcased together as one deluxe package, including a Tom Ford signed bookplate. On sale December 21st.

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

This ultra-stylish debut book celebrates the eternally feminine, whimsical, and divinely chic red-carpet dresses and bridal gowns created Monique Lhuillier, by one of fashion’s foremost designers.

Photo: KT Merry
An exquisite look into the legacy of the rose at the House of Dior, from Christian Dior’s early passion for gardening to contemporary floral-inspired designs.

Photo: Willy Maywald (colorized)
The popular fashion designer takes us through the creation of his favorite gowns, from sketch to dress, now updated with fourteen recent creations.

Photo: Brad Walsh/
Shane LaVanch
The catalogue for the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, this volume details the history of the House of Dior, bringing to life Dior’s many sources of inspiration—from the splendor of flowers to classical and contemporary art.

Photo-illustration:
Katerina Jebb
In February 2021, Vogue launched “The United States of Fashion” documenting the post-COVID changes happening across the fashion landscape. Celebrating creators, artisans, and visionaries across the country, it pays tribute to the democratization of American fashion.

Ali Rose VanOverbeke
Photo: Christina Holmes
Celebrating 30 years of Dazed‘s boundary-pushing storytelling at the forefront of youth culture, this book reveals the past, present, and future of Dazed through its bold cover designs and manifesto-like headlines.

Lupita Nyong’o, February 2014
Photo: Sharif Hamza
Tokyo-based Anrealage is known for introducing photochromatic textiles into dresses that change colors in response to light. This volume provides an instructive look at their process from designer Kunihiko Morinaga’s own point of view.

Photo: Yoshiyuki Okuyama
Marcelo Burlon is the driving force behind the iconic high-end Italian streetwear label County of Milan—a blend of fashion, music, nightlife, and aesthetic freedom.

Photo: Paolo Zerbini
This book captures the global #GANNIGirl movement and diverse network of creatives that surrounds the brand, alongside its ongoing efforts to become the most responsible version of itself.

Photo: Jackie Landvik

PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS

In this new, limited-edition book, French makeup legend, beauty mogul, and esteemed photographer François Nars unveils his collection of more than 300 cinematic, avant-garde portraits of an exclusive list of contemporary creative icons.

Photo: François Nars
Over three decades of Juergen Teller’s influential work that combines fashion stories, autobiographical narratives, portraiture, naked pictures, animal pictures, landscapes and still life.

Photo: Juergen Teller
An erotic folklore of short stories shot by Petra Collins and starring actress Alexa Demie. The pair created the concept and text collaboratively in which Alexa portrays nine characters in a series of their own fairy tales.

Photo: Petra Collins
Intimate stories from notable and influential women that change the narrative about postpartum, illustrating what life is really like after birth—not just days and weeks later, but also years afterward.

Photo: Kirstie Perez
Photographer Chris Jackson has had unparalleled access to the Royal Family for over two decades. His new book is a celebration of the beloved monarch and a beautiful visual record of her extraordinary reign over the past twenty years.

Photo: Chris Jackson
In a world ever more congested and polluted with both toxins and noise, award-winning photographer Pete McBride takes readers on a once-in-a-lifetime escape to find places of peace and quiet—a continent-by-continent quest for the soul.

Photo: Pete McBride
James Balog’s magnum opus on the human impact on our planet—from the threat of animal extinction to catastrophic wildfires, global warming as visualized through glacier melt, and increased ferocity of historic floods and storms.

Photo: James Balog

ART BOOKS

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s extraordinary illustrated story that chronicles the lives of two fictional aristocratic Nigerian families if colonialist and slave-trade interventions had never disrupted the country.

Artwork: This Side of Paradise
© Toyin Ojih Odutola
Artist Ashley Longshore’s inspirational portraits of the most culturally seminal women in history, created in the artist’s colorful signature style.

Artwork © Ashley Longshore

A definitive and long overdue monograph revealing the extraordinarily prolific career of the American artist Wes Lang, whose frenetic and manic paintings bring together ideas and icons mined from a post-pop American landscape.

Artwork: Dear Comrade
© Wes Lang
A retrospective on the life and art of this renowned Cuban-American artist, acclaimed for his refined and thought-provoking paintings with fantastical, Surrealist overtones.

Artwork: Curious and Curiouser
© Julio Larraz
A monumental volume devoted to one of the world’s largest and most spectacular collections of Cézannes.

Artwork: Plate of Fruit on a Chair, 1879-1880
Highlights from this small but exceedingly well-curated museum on the Gulf Coast of Florida, which boasts a world-class encyclopedic art and photography collection.

Artwork: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun’s Julie Le Brun as Flora, 1799

The only two-time winner of the prestigious Prix de West grand prize—the highest honor awarded for art of the American West—George Carlson is regarded as one of the most important American artists of his generation.

Artwork: Mysteries of Migration
© George Carlson
Artist and visionary Gabriel Gale brings to vivid life all the creatures from L. Frank Baum’s beloved series, many visualized for the first time.

Artwork © Gabriel Gale
The beloved, best-selling cult classic encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist, architect, and designer Luigi Serafini, featuring a new design, new cover illustration, and 15 never-before-seen drawings.

Artwork © Luigi Serafini

Limited to 978 numbered copies, the Deluxe Edition of Codex Seraphinianus is bound in a cloth slipcase signed by Luigi Serafini, and includes a print signed by author. There are two print options, each a visual tribute to two great classic writers, Dante and Ovid, and their most important works. These two print options will ship at random when ordered from online retailers.

As a special offer, Rizzoli Bookstore is giving customers the opportunity to choose which print one will receive. To customize your choice, you MUST write which print you want in the comment box at checkout. Write either DIVINA COMMEDIA REMIX (top image) or METAMORPHOSEON REMIX (bottom image) when ordering.

 

 

 

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