Full name: The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

Author: Alicia Drake Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fashion, Non Fiction, History, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316768016 0316768014

Drake presents a sublime and dramatic narrative about the high-chic fashion wars of 1970s Paris where two titanic geniuses and rivals, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagefeld, collided and sparked a tumultuous decade. Similar books: The House of Gucci by Sara G. Forden Parisian Chic by Ines de La Fressange The Gospel According to Coco Chanel by Karen Karbo The Glass of Fashion by Cecil Beaton Empress of Fashion by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart What Not to Wear by Trinny Woodall The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style by Kim France Coco Chanel by Justine Picardie Chanel and Her World by Edmonde Charles-Roux The One Hundred by Nina Garcia The End of Fashion by Teri Agins Front Row by Jerry Oppenheimer The Little Black Book of Style by Nina Garcia The Lucky Shopping Manual by Andrea Linett D.V. by Diana Vreeland The Coat Route by Meg Lukens Noonan The Art of Dress by Jane Ashelford Adorned in Dreams by Elizabeth Wilson Alexander McQueen by Andrew Bolton Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail by Lucy Johnston