Vogue Looks Back at 120 Years of Covers

Dior Couture by Patrick Demarchelier

 Inside Patrick Demarchelier's book about Dior Couture

100 Shoes ... craziness

 

Yves Saint Laurent shoe, 2004

 

Manolo Blahnik boots by Damian Hirst, 2002

 

Ankle boots and pattens, 1825-30

 

Victor platform sandals, c. 1940

 

Alberto Dal Co’ shoe, 1958

 Beth Levine mule, 1962

"100 Shoes" (The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale, $25) is not a collection of fashion’s most vertically daring heels, despite the Vivienne Westwood platforms on the cover (and a preface by that stilt walker Sarah Jessica Parker). Instead it’s a brisk but dazzling 500-year shoe survey, booting the idea that foot fashion needs to be grounded: Moccasins were huge in Georgian England; American tango boots in the 1910s laced up like Grecian sandals; and that late-’60s prototype by Beth Levine — it kicks off the shoe slideshow above — seems to have come from a different planet.

Mulberry Release 40th Anniversary Celebration Photo Book

Mulberry, the luxury fashion brand, unveiled a celebratory book to mark its 40th Anniversary year. The book provides a candid glimpse into the life of this quintessentially English luxury brand. With art direction and design by London boutique design studio Construct, the sumptuous hardback captures the essence of the brand in this its 40th anniversary year, and celebrates Mulberry's recent successes and arrival on the world stage.
Behind the concept and content of the book is Georgia Fendley, founder and creative director of Construct and brand director of Mulberry.

"Rather than a dry historical round up of the past, the book is a glimpse inside our world, a fly on the wall, warts and all journey through the past two years of the brand's life," said Georgia. "It shows our public and private life, the highs and lows and the extraordinary Mulberry 'family' that work so hard together to make it all seem so effortless.