There’s no higher present than an excellent ebook. And for the style lovers in your listing, this vacation season is brimming with delights that received’t simply accumulate mud on a espresso desk. Take, as an illustration, Annie Leibovitz’s Wonderland, compiling the legendary photographer’s most enchanting vogue imagery (with contributions from Anna Wintour), or Slim Aarons: Style by Shawn Waldron and Kate Betts, which teems with images of the stylish topics of Aarons’s fascination (C.Z. Visitor, Nan Kempner, Marisa Berenson, and Oscar de la Renta amongst them). Iain R. Webb’s Rebel Stylist: Caroline Baker—The Woman Who Invented Street Fashion captures the lightning-in-a-bottle brilliance of a rule-breaking vogue editor, whereas The United States of Fashion: A New Atlas of American Style celebrates American designers of all stripes working in cities as varied as Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Santa Fe, Nashville, and Flint, Michigan.
For these riveted by little-known lives, there’s Caroline Bongrand’s Louis Vuitton: L’audacieux, serving up a fictionalized account of the home’s namesake in Nineteenth-century France, and Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture, charting the triumphs and travails of Christian Dior’s heroic youngest sister, Catherine. The fashionable males in your life are lined too: Tom Ford printed a personally edited sequel to his debut ebook, movie and vogue scholar Llewella Chapman has forged her vital eye on the costuming of James Bond, and Phaidon has created a information to the five hundred biggest names in males’s vogue.
