 | 9 Heads: A Guide to Drawing Fashion by Nancy Riegelman
Buy used from: $38.95 9 Heads is a great book for basic fashion sketching. It has modern flats and poses. It's a bit pricey but worthwhile if you are seriously considering a fashion career.
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 | Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now by Valerie Steele
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $12.98 Great for inspiration from past designers. Beautiful, not cheesy display of clothes on headless mannequins.
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 | Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed by Harold Koda
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $9.35 Expand your avant guard-ness. If you are interested in that sort of thing.
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 | Fashion by Cathy Newman
Buy used from: $8.13 Cultural inspiration. "Real life fashion"
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 | Stylishly Drawn: Contemporary Fashion Illustration by Laird Borrelli
Buy used from: $6.36 A great display of many different ways to illustrate your fashions.
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 | The Fashion Book by Editors of Phaidon Press
Buy used from: $5.73 I own this book, but I wouldn't put it in my top ten. It's a good coffee table book, and brief learning of the essential players in fashion.
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 | Faeries
Buy used from: $0.01 Every real artist loves this book. That's a gross generalized statement, but whatever. I love it. It has beautiful illustrations and is interesting.
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 | Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers by Linda Tain
Buy new: $44.00 / Used from: $13.13 Doesn't everyone recommend this? But there is a reason for this. yeah.
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 | Yohji Yamamoto: Talking to Myself by Peter Lindbergh
Buy used from: $855.00 I don't own this book, but I highly respect Yohji Yamamoto and what he is doing to make fashion a true art.
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 | Mario Testino: Portraits by Mario Testino
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $43.35 Pretty fashion photographer images. yeah. he's good.
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 | Kate: The Kate Moss Book by Kate Moss
Buy used from: $56.80 Everyone should have a muse. Kate Moss is who I would love to wear everything I design.
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 | Made in Britain: Tradition and Style in Contemporary British Fashion by Catherine McDermott
Buy used from: $2.99 British Designers. Don't own. Let me know if it actually sucks.
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 | Halston
Buy used from: $14.50 He was great until he made that Halston 3 line for JC Penney was it?
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