The Best Luxury Fashion Books For Your Coffee Table
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Looking for a new fashion book? These tasteful tomes will never go out of style
Make your coffee table the envy of all others with these beautiful fashion-themed books, which span everything from fashion houses and big-name jewellers to the world’s best-known style icons.
Must-Have Fashion Books For 2026
Louis Vuitton Menswear CATWALK
by Anders Christian Madsen (Thames & Hudson, £65)
For fans of menswear – and, in particular, Louis Vuitton’s – this book is ripe for your wish list. The first in the CATWALK series to cover menswear, this new volume uses more than 1400 catwalk photographs to create a complete history of the house’s menswear collections, from Marc Jacobs’ first designs in 1999 to the groundbreaking contemporary shows by Pharrell Williams we see today.
Available from 5 November 2026
The Liberty Scarf
by Paul Rennie (Thames & Hudson, £35.89)
One of British fashion’s most enduring luxury accessories, the Liberty scarf, takes centre stage in this new book by Paul Rennie. Rennie, an enthusiastic collector of vintage headscarves, traces the history of the department store’s beloved scarf – from its first printing in London all the way back in the early 1900s – and the textile craftsmanship behind each design.
FASHIONPHILE: The Book Of Iconic Shoes
by Dylan Kelly (Assouline, £100)
The shoe obsessives among us will devour this new title from FASHIONPHILE. Gathering 25 pairs of shoes that have left their mark on the fashion world – from Carrie Bradshaw’s beloved Manolo Blahnik Hangisis to Louboutin’s famed red-bottom So Kates – alongside designer sketches, campaigns, street style and brand archive photography, this trendy tome contains plenty of inspiration on how to put your best foot foward.
Queen Elizabeth: Fashion And Style
by Caroline de Guitaut (Royal Collection Trust, £40)
If you loved Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life In Style as much as we did, chances are you’d love the companion publication written by the exhibition’s curator, Caroline de Guitaut. Featuring contributions by fashion experts and designers, it will shed further light on the late Queen’s fashion archive – as well as her enduring relationship with Britain’s fashion landscape.
Dior: Memories of Childhood
by Laurence Benaïm (Rizzoli International Publications, £30.88)
Managed to catch Christian Dior. Memories Of Childhood at The Christian Dior Museum? If you missed the fashion exhibition, fear not – you can still learn all about the legendary designer’s Normandy youth in the companion coffee table book. Centring on the family villa, Les Rhumbs in Granville, the book explores how early years here influenced the design ethos of Christian Dior for years to come.
The Antwerp Six
by Geert Bruloot, Romy Cockx and Kaat Debo (Hannibal Books, £65)
Celebrating 40 years of pioneering design collective the Antwerp Six – made up of designers Walter Van Beirendonck, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs, and Marina Yee – this new volume accompanies a major exhibition at MoMu Fashion Museum Antwerp, and features essays from leading fashion writers Tim Blanks, Angelo Flaccavento, Eugene Rabkin, and Oscar van den Boogaard.
Schiaparelli: Anglomaniac
by Thierry-Maxine Loriot and Robin Muir, with foreword by Dua Lipa (SKIRA, £70)
When the V&A’s landmark Schiaparelli exhibition debuted in London earlier this year, it reignited a love for the mother of surrealist fashion and the brand’s current creative director, Daniel Roseberry. Playing on the exhibition’s interlinking themes of fashion and art, this new tome by Thierry-Maxine Loriot creates a fresh dialogue between the House of Schiaparelli and a vibrant community of over 50 British artists, photographers, stylists and image-makers. Introduced by Dua Lipa, Schiaparelli: Anglomaniac features work from the likes of Cecil Beaton, Norman Parkinson, Pat McGrath, Nick Knight, Felix Cooper and Nadine Ijewere.
Autoportrait Issue 21
by Acne Paper (Acne Studios, £50)
Swedish fashion label Acne Studios celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2026, both on the runway and in its self-published magazine-turned-book-series, Acne Paper. Typically seen as a cultural extension of the company, rather than an inward-looking, fashion-heavy tome, the latest issue (number 21) treads new water by looking inwards at Acne Studios and its three decades of history. Creative identities are explored through ‘self-portrait stories’ from those in the brand’s community, including Jordan Hemingway, Guinevere van Seenus, Malick Bodian and Katerina Jebb, alongside a series of essays and archive photography.
Chanel Shows: Fashion Mise-en-Scène
by Sonia Rachline, with foreword by Tilda Swinton and introduction by Émilie Hammen (Flammarion, £57)
One label that has defined the evolution of the fashion show is Chanel. From the intimate salon shows put on by Gabrielle Chanel in Paris to the immersive displays conducted by recent creative directors Karl Lagerfeld (do you remember the Alpine ski resort in the nave of the Grand Palais?) and Matthieu Blazy (whose planetary debut set the internet alight in 2025), Chanel has always been at the forefront of expanding the runway into a show. And now, you can read all about how the label did it. Exploring the custom sets that have housed Chanel collections over the years, Chanel Shows: Fashion Mise-en-Scène offers a fresh look at the brand’s mastery of world-building.
Ralph Lauren: Catwalk: The Complete Collections
by Bridget Foley (Thames & Hudson, £65)
One American label that refuses to go out of fashion (and rightly so) is Ralph Lauren. Now in the middle of the pop culture zeitgeist – with the internet celebrating its runways, people flocking to stores for Polo Ralph Lauren caps and shirts, and Londoners specifically loving its Wimbledon takeover each year (did you see the Sloane Square pop-up?) – we’re more curious than ever about the originator of preppy chic. Lucky for us, the latest instalment in Thames & Hudson’s Catwalk series, a comprehensive ‘reference library’ on the runway shows of the world’s best-known brands, puts the spotlight on Ralph Lauren with more than 1,300 runway photographs from across the legendary designer’s career.
