You might have a walk-in closet of epic proportions and a fantastic collection of shoes, but you're not truly a grown-up fashionista until you've amassed an impressive fashion library. We're talking books upon books about Coco Chanel and fashion history, street style magnum opuses and piles of fashion magazines—a collection that speaks volumes, no pun intended, of your love for style.
Whether you already have a library or are just getting one started, these brand-new books belong on your shelves.
1. How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
Sophie Mas, Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan and Caroline De Maigret have covered French chic before, and this latest tome is their best yet on the subject. De Maigret, Instagram queen of cool, is the familiar face here, but the book is filled with valuable input from all four authors. Tips, recipes and sultry photography—infused with a dash of humor—make for an enjoyable afternoon of reading.
2. Women in Clothes
This sophisticated tome includes conversations, interviews, philosophical essays and memoir pieces from everyone who's anyone in the fashion industry. It's not a breezy read, but it's an experimental, daring and essential one.
3. Fashionable Selby
Todd Selby, fashion photographer and artist extraordinaire, has consistently delivered coffee table-ready winners as part of his Selby series—and his latest is no exception. This stunning tome showcases the lives of the fashionable elite—from models to shoemakers—with trademark visual pizzazz. Time to make room on that coffee table.
4. Men In This Town: London, Tokyo, Sydney, Milan and New York
Shot by street style photographer and blogger Giuseppe Santamaria, this dapper book is all about the men—stylish, slick, inspiring men. Sold.
5. Lulu de la Falaise
This book's eponymous model and muse, best known for her intimate relationship with iconic French designer Yves Saint Laurent, finally got the book she deserves. Interviews with fashion royalty, exclusive materials and over 400 pictures by the world's best photographers fill readers in on an important piece of fashion history.