Holidays 2016: three coffee-table books for fashion fans

Archive documents, rare photos, anecdotes, exclusive stories and sketches from some of the industry's icons can be found in a selection of fashion-focused coffee-table books out this holiday season. “Grace: The American Vogue Years,” published by Phaidon, is a coffee-table book that looks back over the work of American Vogue creative director at large Grace Coddington. As well as paying homage to the career of this international fashion icon, the book recaps her most emblematic fashion shoots, as well as exploring her sources of inspiration and artistic collaborations.

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Donatella Versace to release a book on the luxury fashion house

Fashion designer Donatella Versace is to release a book detailing the history of her career and the Versace brand reports WWD. The 336-page tome will tell Donatella's story of the brand, starting from 1997 when she took over the artistic direction of Versace after the tragic murder of her brother and the brand's founder Gianni. The book has been written in collaboration with fashion curator and professor at the IUAV University of Venice, Maria Luisa Frisa, and W Magazine's director Stefano Tonchi.

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Jeremy Scott to launch fashion career retrospective in Dallas

Jeremy Scott is set to celebrate his 20-year anniversary as a fashion designer with an exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary museum. The show will open in 2017 and will serve as a retrospective of his designs over the course of his career, spanning his position at the head of Moschino as well as his own eponymous label, WWD reports. “It's going to be my 20th anniversary next year, so to have the Contemporary do an exhibition of my work is a very exciting and thrilling moment,” he told the publication, adding that although he has been given the option of using the museum's surface area of 26,000 square feet, he is still thinking about how exactly to utilize the space.

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