10 Best Books on Street Fashion

Vice Dos and Don'ts: 10 Years of VICE Magazine's Street Fashion Critiques

by Suroosh Alvi (Grand Central Publishing)

From the creators of the runaway cult magazine sensation and arbiter of all that is cool comes the ultimate visual guide on how to be—and not be—a modern urban hipster.

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Street: The Nylon Book of Global Style

by (Universe)

Ask any designer, fashion editor, or art director where the hottest trends are coming from, and they'll tell you it's from the streets of certain cities. And if you ask them what magazine gives the best, most authoritative coverage of these outsider fashion incubators, chances are they'll say Nylon. Nylon here combines its street cred and international expertise (the magazine is read in major cities around the world, and has recently launched both Japanese and Australian editions) to reveal the … (continue reading)

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Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion - Tokyo

by Tiffany Godoy (Chronicle Books)

The Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo has become an international style mecca, a street-level fashion scene prowled by major designers looking for inspiration, and whose local, cutting-edge labels enjoy global cache. Style Deficit Disorder is the first book to explore this remixed, fast-forward fashion hotbed, profiling its most daring and influential designers, labels, stylists, and shops (including Comme des Garons, Hysteric Glamour, Super Lovers, A Bathing Ape, and Laforet). Featuring nearly 200 photos, essays by key Japanese fashion editors, and commentary … (continue reading)

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Fruits

by Shoichi Aoki (Phaidon Press)

This is a collection of 45 Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier fanzine. "Fruits" was established in 1994, by photographer Shoich Aoki, initially as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. The magazine has since grown to cult status and is now avidly followed by thousands of Japanese teenagers who also use the magazine as an opportunity to check out the latest styles and trends. The average age of the kids … (continue reading)

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lastnightsparty: Where Were You Last Night?

by Merlin Bronques (Harry N. Abrams)

WELCOME TO NYC’S HOTTEST UNDERGROUND PARTIES. If you missed last night’s party, here’s your VIP pass to New York City’s deliciously sexy club scene. It’s a voyeuristic spin with today’s downtown demimonde, where hipsters, rockers, celebrities, and drag queens meet and misbehave with unabashed enthusiasm. Bared flesh, intertwined tongues, and de rigueur attitudes are all captured by Bonques’s lens in photographs that are fresh, fun, and hot. If this is your scene you may find yourself here; if not, welcome … (continue reading)

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The Tokyo Look Book: Stylish To Spectacular, Goth To Gyaru, Sidewalk To Catwalk

by Philomena Keet (Kodansha USA)

Tokyo is home to the most creative and stylish fashion in the world. The Tokyo Look Book takes us on a dazzling journey through the streets, clubs, and boutiques of this trendsetting city to introduce us to the people who wear the latest fashions and the people who make them. Crammed with cool, full-color photographs of Tokyo's trendy teens and twenty-somethings captured candidly as they work and play, this is a comprehensive look at the richly varied fashion scenes that … (continue reading)

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Fresh Fruits

by Shoichi Aoki (Phaidon Press)

Presented in an identical format to Phaidon's previous Fruits, published in 2001, Fruits Too is a collection of Tokyo teenage street fashion portraits selected from Japan's premier street fanzine of the same title. Published every month by Shoichi Aoki, who is also the sole photographer for the magazine, Fruits was established in 1994 as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. Over the last decade the magazine has grown to cult status … (continue reading)

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New York Look Book: A Gallery Of Street Fashion

by Amy Larocca (DK ADULT)

Since 2004, New York magazine has been celebrating New York City style in a feature called "The Look Book": a centerfold-with its subject shot at random anywhere and everywhere across Gotham-along with an interview about the subject's personal style. The New York Look Book collects more than 200 of the best Look Book features, and a special "Where to Find It" section offers readers not only store listings, but also an insider's guide to New York's distinctive neighborhoods.

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The London Look: Fashion from Street to Catwalk

by Christopher Breward (Yale University Press)

From Savile Row to Carnaby Street, from the bohemian dress of the Oscar Wilde circle in the nineteenth century to the punk street styles of recent years, London has been a significant source of fashion style. This stunning book, a rich and stimulating history of two hundred years of London fashion, explores the circumstances and characteristics that have made the London look” distinctive. Focusing on the design, production, marketing, and consumption of clothing during this period, the authors place these … (continue reading)

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