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1 Featuring 50 never-before-published photographs, “Kate” (Phaidon) is a photographic portfolio that examines Kate Moss’ undiscovered years. Specifically, the photographs that leads up to Moss’ Calvin Klein Obsession campaign. The photographs showcased were taken in the early 1990s by her thenboyfriend, Mario Sorrenti.
2 Bill Cunningham was a highly acclaimed American fashion photographer for The New York Times. When he died in 2016, he left behind a vast archive and secret memoir. Entitled “Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs” (Penguin Press), the biography charts his early years to his first attempt to break into New York Fashion Week.
3 Published after the exhibition of the same name launched last February, “Italiana: Italy Through the Lens of Fashion 1971-2001” (Rizzoli) highlights the progress and establishment of an Italian fashion system in that great “Made in Italy” period. The book also contains unpublished essays and an anthology of texts previously published by Italian writers in the aforementioned years.