These showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs – and, of course, the top fashion models who wore them on the runway.

After Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Vivienne Westwood, Versace and Chloé, Givenchy is the ninth in a series of high-end, clothbound books that offer an unrivalled overview of the collections of the world’s top fashion houses through original catwalk photography. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images. In 1952, the Bettina blouse, as well as the separates, was widely copied; so too the black sweater printed with a snarling Rottweiler head that appeared in 2011, which can still be seen on streets right across the globe. The book by New Mags has an inspiring content with interesting texts and big pictures perfect for the fashionista. Prior to this, from 2013 to 2016 Fury was fashion editor of the Independent, i and the Independent on Sunday newspapers.It really reminded me of how important it is that we continue to document the shows and not just the celebrities who attend them. The kimono is the ultimate symbol of Japan, revered within the country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded internationally as an exotic fascination.

Impressively heavy tome with wide ranging contents, but it doesn’t really bring the clothes to life and is a pale imitation of the exhibition at Bowes museum which is superb.Meanwhile, for Madsen, the house’s towering legacy as it stands today comes down to great style and the elusive properties of taste.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Founded as a luxury leather goods house in 1854, Louis Vuitton was for many decades one of the world’s leading trunk and accessories makers.On the 70th anniversary of Dior’s first ever collection (the iconic 'New Look’, launched in spring 1947), this book charts Christian Dior’s fabled collections and those of his successors Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, and Raf Simons, as well as Maria Grazia Chiuri’s debut presentations for the house. After Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Vivienne Westwood and Versace, Chloé is the eighth in a series of high-end, cloth-bound books that offer an unrivalled overview of the collections of the world’s top fashion houses through original catwalk photography. The book is not solely a visual catalog in so much as it is also a narrative coauthored by a fashion historian of sorts and a fashion journalist who give us a varied story rather than just the runway images.