Fashion Designers A-Z. 45th Ed.

Covering more than a century of fashion, this book presents the designers who defined the 20th and 21st centuries, from Azzedine Alaïa and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen and Yves Saint Laurent.

This updated edition shows photographs of hundreds of garments from the permanent collection of the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT and founding editor of Fashion Theory, edited and wrote the book, with the fashion critic Suzy Menkes as co-author and illustrations by Robert Nippoldt. Published in the 45th Edition series, the hardcover has 512 pages, in English.