Books on 1960s dress abound in more and less scholarly titles. This accessible work stands out by contextualizing fashion alongside major social change—the Youthquake, birth control, the civil rights movement, and Vietnam War protests.
Kawakubo calls her clothes "objects for the body," and this catalog allows those objects to speak to readers who understand that fashion goes beyond what you're wearing to work tomorrow.
This absorbingly readable collection lets us peek over authors' shoulders into cabinets of curiosities around the world where exhibit cases become time machines and objects become stories. For museum lovers and skeptics alike.
Many books record Beaton's sharp-eyed views of what other people wore; this one examines his own wardrobe as another legacy of the prolific photographer, designer, and writer. For fans of the man and his style.