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
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.
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Vivienne Westwood & Jewellery
by Alexander Fury (Thames & Hudson Ltd, £50, released in 2025)
The first ever book dedicated to the jewellery creations of the late Vivienne Westwood hit shelves this week. Published in collaboration with the house and written by fashion critic Alexander Fury, the book tracks the British designer’s key staples – a safety pin brooch, a string of pearls, a dog collar and a crystalised version of the Westwood orb –and the themes that defined her vast jewellery portfolio.
ERDEM
by Erdem Moralioglu (Rizzoli, £100, released in 2025)
Designer Erdem Moralioglu marks 20 years of his eponymous fashion house with ERDEM, a monograph detailing his creative vision, inspirations, muses and collaborators from the last two decades. Filled with short stories, scripts, recipes, interviews, historical sources, photography, artworks and contributions from close friends of the label (including Anna Wintour and Christian Lacroix), ERDEM is presented as multi-layered narrative that offers a glimpse into the world of one of London’s most-admired houses.
Fluid
by Harris Reed (Quadrille Publishing Ltd, £35, released in 2024)
Harris Reed is bringing in a new era of fluid fashion. The designer, who remains a regular on the London Fashion Week schedule, has always designed to disrupt the divide between men’s and women’s clothing – and in Fluid, he takes this mission further. The designer delves into (and challenges) attitudes to fluidity, starting hundreds of years ago and arriving in the present. The book itself is also visually stunning, with plenty of glossy photographs and illustrations to show how clothes may act as the bridge betweeen art, philosophy and history,
Carolina Herrera: COLORMANIA, Color and Fashion
by Wes Gordon and Edward Enninful (Rizzoli International Publications, £80, released in 2023)
Fans of global fashion label Carolina Herrera will want to get their hands on COLORMANIA, a new coffee table book created by the brand’s Creative Director Wes Gordon and photographer Elizaveta Porodina. A celebration of Gordon’s collections for Carolina Herrera and Porodina’s eye for colour and movement, the book is a cinematic tribute to the American fashion house.
Burberry
by Alexander Fury (Assouline, £150, released in 2022)
Iconic British luxury label Burberry has unveiled a new book in collaboration with Assouline, chartering the fashion house’s rise from a family-run company in 1856 to a global trailblazer in the 21st century. The richly illustrated volume, which features 200 images, documents key moments in the brand’s history while exploring how it crafted a distinct British identity.
Captivate! Fashion Photography From The 90s
by Claudia Schiffer (Prestel, £55, released in 2021)
For those with a penchant for all things 90s nostalgia, meet your new authoritative read of the decade. It was the era of the meteoric rise of the supermodel, and who better to guide you through the decade other than the icon herself, Claudia Schiffer. As editor of the book, Schiffer takes readers through with over 130 colour photographs, revealing unseen private archives published for the very first time.
Yves Saint Laurent: Icons Of Fashion Design & Photography
by Marguerite (Abrams, £28.99, released in 2020)
Flick through some of legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent’s most influential designs, documented by the leading fashion photographers of the 20th century. Icons Of Fashion Design & Photography traces the designer’s success story from 1962 to 1988 (when the book was originally published) through 135 photographs taken by the likes of Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and William Klein.
