With images of exotic coastlines, decadent yacht parties, gilded seaside mansions, the book is a stylish tribute to a bygone era. “The Swans of jet society had perfected the art of nonchalant elegance, never admitting to others or themselves that they lived primarily to wear clothes and certainly never letting slip that the remotest bit of work went into their appearance,” continues the author. Foulkes follows the Babe Paleys, Grace Kellys, and Fiona Thyssens from the French Riviera, to Acapulco and Marrakech, charting not only their movements but their marriages, divorces, friendships, and, of course, fashions. He’s referring to the year 1957, when the number of people traveling by plane finally surpassed those crossing the Atlantic by boat, and Jet Society was born. Swans: Legends of the Jet Society by Nicholas Foulkes “There was a time when the jet was not taken for granted, when it was an agent of societal change every bit as profound as television and the contraceptive pill,” writes Nicholas Foulkes in his preface to Swans. Because McQueen himself edited the book’s layout, “it is also a personal record of Lee’s imagination,” Waplington writes, “his vision of himself, and a tribute to the many important and lasting relationships he had with all those who worked alongside him.” (Damiani, October 31) Waplington’s photos of McQueen and his staff, including current creative director Sarah Burton, are interspersed with images of landscapes-the waste grounds near McQueen’s hometown, and landfills in the Negev desert in Israel-which make for additional commentary on the recycling theme of the collection. Titled The Horn of Plenty, the show was a history of the designer’s career to date, as he revisited his fifteen years of provocative, groundbreaking clothes and recycled ideas in a new collection. From a visual chronicle of Alexander McQueen’s final collection to the history of the signature Louis Vuitton bag to a new biography of iconoclast model turned photographer Lee Miller, here are ten new fashion books you’ll want to add to your shelf this fall.Īlexander McQueen: Working Process by Nick Waplington When Alexander McQueen commissioned Nick Waplington to document the making of his fall 2009 collection, the photographer had no idea he would be capturing McQueen’s final body of work. This time of year, the world is already training its eyes on the spring runways and the season ahead, but a host of new titles offers a refreshing perspective on some of fashion’s most fascinating moments and origins.
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