book binge

Books are one of my simple pleasures in life.  Whether they’re fiction or filled with photos, books provide a platform in which my imagination can swim.  Apart from hording fashion, art, and other assorted coffee table books, I aim to collect as many classics, well-known novels, and rave-reviewed books as I can in the hope that I’ll have time to read them.  Here are a few fashion and celebrity culture picks that are on my wish list, and of course who can resist a cache of colorful cocktails thrown into the mix?

(Clockwise, from top left)

Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters (Marilyn Monroe, Bernard Comment, Stanley Buchthal)

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (Andrew Bolton, Solve Sundsbo, Tim Blanks, Susannah Frankel)

Vintage Cocktails (Brian Van Flandern, Laziz Hamani)

50s Fashion (Jim Heimann, Laura Schooling)

Edie Factory Girl (David Dalton, Nat Finkelstein)

Influence (Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen)

Fashion Illustration 1930 to 1970 (Marnie Fogg)

Allure (Diana Vreeland, Marc Jacobs, Christopher Hemphill)

Harper’s Bazaar Fashion: Your Guide to Personal Style (Lisa Armstrong, Meenal Mistry)

(Photos, various via Google)