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Marilyn
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Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
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High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly
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Jacqueline Kennedy, The White House Years: Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library & Museum
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4.53 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn
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3.88 avg rating — 4,464 ratings
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America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Helmut Newton: Portraits
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4.34 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Vogue: The Covers
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4.32 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Grace Kelly Style: Fashion for Hollywood's Princess
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4.08 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Hollywood and History: Costume Design in Film
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4.09 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990
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4.27 avg rating — 1,174 ratings
score: 269,
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Dior
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4.56 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 260,
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Dior: Couture
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Patrick Demarchelier (Photographer)
4.65 avg rating — 49 ratings
score: 255,
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The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten
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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 245,
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Vogue Women
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Georgina Howell (Editor)
3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 242,
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Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten
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4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 241,
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Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style
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4.38 avg rating — 122 ratings
score: 198,
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In My Own Fashion: An Autobiography
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3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 195,
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The Noir Style
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4.13 avg rating — 98 ratings
score: 193,
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The Beatles: The Biography
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4.09 avg rating — 13,312 ratings
score: 189,
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Chanel: Key Collections
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Born This Way: Friends, Colleagues, and Coworkers Recall Gia Carangi, the Supermodel Who Defined an Era
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3.85 avg rating — 201 ratings
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The Grace Kelly Years: Princess of Monaco
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3.97 avg rating — 117 ratings
score: 187,
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Dressing Diana
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4.19 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 184,
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Legends: Women Who Have Changed the World; Through the Eyes of Great Women Writers
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John Miller (Editor)
3.93 avg rating — 108 ratings
score: 179,
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House of Worth the Gilded Age 1860-1918
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 178,
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Helmut Newton
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3.94 avg rating — 127 ratings
score: 177,
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The Little Dictionary of Fashion: A Guide to Dress Sense for Every Woman
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4.02 avg rating — 1,303 ratings
score: 161,
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Hemut Newton: Pages from the Glossies
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Helmut Newton (Photographer)
4.56 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 156,
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In Vogue: An Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine
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4.25 avg rating — 869 ratings
score: 142,
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A Girl Called Dusty
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3.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
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A Dress for Diana
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4.29 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The Windsor Style
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4.18 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
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3.25 avg rating — 1,050 ratings
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Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover
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3.77 avg rating — 244 ratings
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By Her Own Design : A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register
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Piper Huguley (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 8,056 ratings
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Streetstyle: From Sidewalk to Catwalk
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4.04 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Vogue Weddings: Brides, Dresses, Designers (Vogue Lifestyle Series)
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Hamish Bowles (editor)
4.03 avg rating — 67 ratings
score: 99,
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Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 405 ratings
score: 99,
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Vintage Weddings: One Hundred Years of Bridal Fashion and Style (Vintage Fashion Series)
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4.04 avg rating — 80 ratings
score: 98,
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A Thousand Days of Magic: Dressing Jacqueline Kennedy for the White House
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4.31 avg rating — 158 ratings
score: 97,
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The Wedding Dress
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3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 96,
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Blonde
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3.93 avg rating — 16,910 ratings
score: 94,
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Fortuny
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Royal Style: A History of Aristocratic Fashion Icons
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3.54 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Wedding Dress: The 50 Designs that Changed the Course of Bridal Fashion
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4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Grace Kelly: Icon of Style to Royal Bride
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4.11 avg rating — 45 ratings
score: 93,
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The Duchess of Cambridge - Our Style Icon: Kate's Fashion and Fitness Secrets Revealed
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era
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4.57 avg rating — 217 ratings
score: 92,
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The Wedding Dress: 300 Years of Bridal Fashions
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3.93 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 92,
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Diana: Her Life in Fashion
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4.39 avg rating — 64 ratings
score: 91,
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The Beatles Anthology
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4.37 avg rating — 17,796 ratings
score: 90,
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Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style
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3.70 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Chanel's Riviera: Peace and War on The Côte d’Azur
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3.67 avg rating — 1,561 ratings
score: 90,
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The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe
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3.79 avg rating — 4,788 ratings
score: 89,
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The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles
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4.10 avg rating — 3,365 ratings
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Grace Kelly: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon
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4.46 avg rating — 102 ratings
score: 88,
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Annie Leibovitz at Work
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4.12 avg rating — 5,478 ratings
score: 87,
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Audrey Hepburn: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon
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4.51 avg rating — 386 ratings
score: 87,
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Women
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4.22 avg rating — 2,281 ratings
score: 86,
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Christian Dior: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Master
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4.27 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Coco Chanel Special Edition: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon
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4.33 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Women Seeing Women: A Pictorial History of Women's Photography from Julia Margaret Cameron to Annie Leibovitz
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4.38 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Coco Chanel (Little People, BIG DREAMS, #1)
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Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
score: 84,
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A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
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Annie Leibovitz (Photographer)
4.21 avg rating — 2,198 ratings
score: 83,
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Fashion in Colour
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Illustrated World of Couture
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4.16 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Elegance: The Beauty of French Fashion
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4.29 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Iconic: The Masters of Italian Fashion
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4.32 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Work in Progress
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Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women
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Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair
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Michael Cunningham (Photographer)
4.18 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
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Michael Cunningham (Photographer)
4.39 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Great Life Photographers
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4.58 avg rating — 393 ratings
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People in Vogue: A Century of Portraits
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Robin Derrick (Editor)
4.21 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 69,
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