Fashion by the book
In a year chock full of museum shows about designers, blockbusters devoted to Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier have hogged the buzz, but they were just two of many. If you missed any or all of the rest, Globe Style offers the next best thing: a survey of retrospective tomes. All are available through Amazon.ca
Saint Laurent rive gauche: La révolution de la mode closed at the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent on July 17, but Farid Chenoune’s hardcover salute to the designer’s work, titled Yves Saint Laurent ($47), lives forever.Supplied
Didn’t catch the show called Balenciaga and Spain at San Francisco’s de Young Museum before it closed in July? Check out Vogue editor Hamish Bowles’s book of the same name ($47) for a lavishly illustrated survey of the Iberian master’s career.Supplied
The exhibition devoted to Madame Grès at Paris’s Musée Bourdelle was extended to Aug. 28 by popular demand. Still missed it? Pick up Patricia Mears’s 2008 bio of the legend, Madame Grès: Sphinx of Fashion ($33), for an equally illuminating study.Supplied