The 50 Greatest Fashion Designers by Emma Baxter-Wright

370 pages

Fashion & Photography

Four stars****

Pub date: 01 August 2026

My thoughts:

This book offers a brief introduction to each of fifty fashion designers. Readers can look for their favorites (Chanel, Dior, Balenciaga, Quant-to name a few) or page through this title in order. Readers may also discover some creators who are new to them.

For each designer, find out when they lived and what they looked like, learn a bit of their biography, understand something about their fashion ethos and see examples of their work. If anything, readers will just wish for more on their favorites.

This book is currently only ninety-nine cents of Amazon. Take a look and think about buying it today.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Arcturus Publishing for this title. All thoughts are my own.

Pub date: 01 August 2026

Description:

from the publisher

Fashion writer Emma Baxter-Wright introduces 50 of the world’s most influential fashion designers and a selection of their most celebrated pieces, showcased with full-colour photography.

Starting with the foundation of the 19th century House of Worth, perhaps the first real fashion house, through the designs of the hugely influential Coco Chanel, Christian Dior and Yves St Laurent, to Japanese designers such as Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake whose designs ‘deconstructed’ fashion in the 1980s and 1990s and the emerging stars of the present day, this stunning book is a fascinating history of how fashion has developed over the past 160 years. Two double-page spreads are dedicated to each designer, outlining their influences, the legacy of their ideas and revealing the beautiful designs that have made them famous.