The likes of Charlize Theron, Karlie Kloss, and Gisele Bündchen all appear in Patrick Demarchelier’s new Rizzoli book, Dior Couture. The beauties were photographed for the tome in pieces by Dior himself (from his first collection in 1947), as well as the designers that followed him, including Marc Bohan and John Galliano. [Vogue U.K.]The queen [...]

Christian Louboutin strode his red-soled way to the front of the footwear pack over the course of 20 years in business, picking up adoring fans (and even Top 40 pop-song callouts) along the way. Even a 300-plus-page tome like the new Christian Louboutin ($150, out today from Rizzoli) couldn’t contain all his creations, it turns [...]

Rick Owens has a well-documented taste for the monumental. Rather than swerve from inspiration to inspiration season after season, he contents himself with refining the dark, seductive ideas of his collections—laying, in effect, another brick in the wall with each outing. His furniture, which he shows at galleries in New York and, coming soon, [...]

With so few pants on the runway and so much leg on view, a tribute to Madeleine Vionnet—the designer who ensured that sexiness need not mean frostbite—is a welcome change from today’s usual eye candy. Madeleine Vionnet, Rizzoli’s latest coffee-table topper, is chockfull of designs replete with sensual draping and subtly suggestive nips and tucks; [...]

We were trying to avoid the Valentine/Valentina allusions; but—cross
our heart—Kohle Yohannan’s new glossy tome from Rizzoli on the Russian émigré designer (and lover of Greta Garbo) is a great gift for lovers of fashion—and not only on the 14th of February. The book accompanies a retrospective at the Museum of the City of New York, [...]

For someone who doesn’t like parties, Ted Muehling was the guest of honor at a big one last night. “This is Don’s party,” said the notoriously shy jewelry designer, referring to photographer Don Freeman. “He’s the party boy.” Freeman and Muehling were, in fact, both the party boys last night, and guests turned up in [...]

Yesterday evening, Narciso Rodriguez launched his new self-titled book, published by Rizzoli (with contributions from New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn, photographer Cindy Sherman, and artist Betsy Berne), in a corner of Bergdorf Goodman, where some of his collections are sold. Celebrity friends and fashion insiders in attendance took a stroll down memory lane [...]