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RRP price is £15.99 but get it on Amazon for £10.39
She’s had four number one hits in the UK in the past fourteen months. She took home two Grammy awards in 2010. She’s sold out shows in the UK, North America, Australia, Europe, and Japan. She’s a global phenomenon, and one of the most powerful female artists in the world. But just like every girl in the world, she loves to dress up…
From glitter skeleton corsets and white pleather go–go boots to bubble dresses and chain mail hoods, Lady Gaga exploded on the international fashion scene almost as quickly as she burst onto the music scene.
In this lavishly illustrated style guide, Lizzy Goodman, a music and fashion writer for Rolling Stone, Elle and New York Magazine, explores the fashion chameleon that is Gaga. Loaded with 120 brilliant colour and black and white images, you’ll see the many faces of Lady Gaga and the impact of her style on art and fashion.
With chapters covering everything from her dabble in the burlesque and bondage chic to her penchant for architectural and origami-inspired outfits, Gaga has never shied away from exposing herself. And since fashion is never just about the clothes, there are gorgeously illustrated chapters that cover her hair and nail art, make–up, shoes, accessories and tattoos-all of which play an essential role in the Haus of Gaga.
So who is the girl fishing in 8–inch heels? Who is the singer in the blood-drenched bodysuit? Who is the woman behind the sunglasses? Now is your chance to find out.







RRP is £29.99 but buy it on Amazon for £25.49 and this book will be released on the 30th September.
Scholars have long acknowledged the significance of the Japanese fashion revolution of the 1980s, when avant-garde designers Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons introduced a radically new conception of fashion. But what has happened in the years since then? Lavishly illustrated, Japan Fashion Now will be the first book to explore how Japanese fashion has evolved in recent years. During this time, Japanese pop culture has swept the world, as young people everywhere read manga, watch anime, and play video games. Japan has had a profound impact on global culture, often via new media. With essays by Valerie Steele (Is Japan Still the Future?), Patricia Mears (Fashion Revolution), Hiroshi Narumi (Japanese Street Style), and Yuniya Kawamura (Japanese Fashion Subcultures), Japan Fashion Now will explore how the world of fashion has been transformed by contemporary Japanese visual culture.



RRP price £25.00 but get it on Amazon for £12.49
Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies. In this full-scale biography we finally discover the history of the incredible woman who created the way we look now. Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor – she conjured up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, best-selling perfumes, and the most successful fashion brand of all time – but she also invented herself, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture. While Chanel was supreme innovator and vendor of all things elegant and beautiful, what lies beneath her own glossy myth is darker. In this book, Justine Picardie brings the mysterious Gabrielle Chanel out of hiding, to celebrate her great achievements, at the same time as casting a clear eye over her transgressions. She examines Chanel’s enduring afterlife, as well as her remarkable life, uncovering the consequences of what she covered up, unpicking the seams between truth and legend, yet keeping intact the real fabric of her past.




Isabella Blow, by Martina Rink
RRP price is £29.95 but get it off Amazon for £19.47
This volume is an homage to the glamorous, enigmatic Isabella Blow and her dramatic and doomed life. One of the worlds leading creative women, credited with ‘discovering’ Alexander McQueen and Sophie Dahl, Isabella vitalized the fashion industry and her suicide in 2007 left it bereft. Martina Rink, former personal assistant to Isabella Blow, has brought together letters from all those who loved Isabella, from Mario Testino to Manolo Blahník. The book has contributions by some of fashion’s biggest names, with images from world class fashion photographers, illustrations by Hilary Knight and Paul Smith, a foreword by Philip Treacy and a transcript of the Memorial Speech Anna Wintour delivered at Isabella Blows funeral in 2007.






RRP price is £20 but get it on Amazon for £11.49
Top young fashion designer Luella Bartley celebrates English style and explains how to acquire it.
What makes English girls the coolest in the world? What is the English style which girls around the world try to emulate? In this book Luella Bartley – crowned Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2008 – sets out to capture what it is that makes English girls just a little bit special.
First up are the clothes – Luella investigates the combination of smart and scruffy, classic and street-style, which ensures that English girls are always at the cutting edge of fashion.
Then there are the icons – the English girl knows that Kate Moss and The Duchess of Devonshire both have a place in the style pantheon.
Luella explains the style tribes vying for the English girl’s allegiance, the social rituals she undergoes – from surfing in Cornwall to clubbing in Berlin – and the status symbols she marks herself out with. All this requires a lot of photographs, drawings, and, occasionally, diagrams.
But Luella’s Guide to English Style isn’t simply a book about fashion and style, it’s a work of social anthropology – delivered with a wink and a kiss on the cheek. Luella describes the English girl’s approach to love and shows how the English girl gets better with age.
With her background as London’s hippest designer and as an editor on Vogue and the London Evening Standard, Luella Bartley is brilliantly placed to map out English style and what it means for girls.