The Killer Detail: Defining Moments in Fashion: Sartorial Icons from Cary Grant to Kate Moss

This book comes with a variety of interpretations from different characters from Julie Christie, to Simone De Bouvoir, Frida Kahlo, Grace Kelly, Sigourney Weaber.It depicts a cartesian perspective of each celebrity personal style interpretation.Also extolles the wham factor in each personality.LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!

Great fun to browse. Interesting info - and an unexpected plus - gives me leads to things I'd like to look into further - facts about artists, books, movements I didn't know, etcetera. Wish the book were larger; would have given it 5 stars. But it's big enough. Not really so much about fashion - that's just an excuse to organize these celebrities of all types together.

The book teaches and explains distinctions in style vs fashion with elegant writing and excellent photo choices. It's well thought out and offers grand instruction in self-definition through personal style and attitude.

Interesting profiles of some of the world's most inspiring and inspired fashion icons--some known and others not. Each profile is accompanied by a single photo of the subject.

Great pictures - but really needed to be titled "another book of great icons". Did not show any reason these people were different in any detail. Nothing to grab hold of. Just sensational.

Great point of view

It's an enjoyable book, even though there are many famous people included here who were in no way style icons. Just because Ingrid Bergman was once seen wearing sandals, and Robert Montgomery and Ramon Navarro were in the same film wearing boots - doesn't in any way make them style icons. There are also people included who had very similar style, so the somewhat lofty text is manipulated to create the idea that they were one offs. Not so. One image of Jayne Mansfield in sling back pumps doesn't make her a a style icon. She was anything but.

This book is not what I expected (a volume focused far more on the technical fashion details that the individuals within started, added life to, or made iconic with many more detail-oriented photos and specific information). I suppose the iconic part is there, but the details are more generalist-ic than I expected. Still, this is a gorgeous book with excellent, well-paced writing that pulls me in and on to the next profile. Some of the individuals included provide a unique take on established fashion elements. This is a fashionista's book, for those of us from whom fashion and its details are, in the end, always about the wearers.

日本でも名前や顔の知られた方々のファッションスナップ集です。見開き片側にその人物の説明文、もう片側にスナップ写真という構成です。時代も幅広くとても良い写真集だと思います。