If the fashion industry has become a favorite mise-en-scène for television lately , the trend has extended over to our bookshelves too: Three new books out this month are dedicated to the stylish machinations of the fashion world. Yet they go where we have yet to see a show seriously go this year: the American fashion industry.
Empresses of Seventh Avenue by Nancy MacDonell Long before Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri stamped “The Future Is Female” on T-shirts, the fashion industry’s female players were pushing the same agenda. In Empresses of Seventh Avenue , author Nancy MacDonell spotlights the industry’s earliest movers and shakers: those women who helped make the industry what it is, and the visionaries who preferred to champion real people instead of mannequins.