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Fall's 4 Most Sumptuous Fashion Books

This season has yielded an exquisite bounty of fashion books: pick one and swoon into a style reverie

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Fall's 4 Sumptuous Fashion Books
<i>Dressing for the Dark: From the Silver Screen to the Red Carpet</i>
1 / 4 Keira Knightley in Atonement (Photo: Universal Studios/Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection)

Dressing for the Dark: From the Silver Screen to the Red Carpet

No celebrity stylist in recent history has been more influential on the red carpet than Kate Young (notable Oscars ensembles include Natalie Portman’s 2011 aubergine Rodarte gown and Michelle Williams’ canary-yellow Vera Wang in 2006). Young’s photo-packed first book is an ode to the off- and on-screen chic of the film stars who inspire her—Marlene Dietrich, both Hepburns—interspersed with ruminations on style from wits like Dorothy Parker: “There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.”

Kate Young, Assouline, $45