Dior V by Galliano

The photos of his Central Saint Martins student work alone are worth the price—I had no idea how theatrical even his earliest designs were. Text is minimal, but the imagery carries it.

The section on his time as a dresser at the National Theatre is what really got me — I had no idea that costume work fed so directly into the shows he later put together. The print quality holds up nicely too, the images are sharp enough to actually study the details.

The photos of his Central Saint Martins student work are worth the price alone—I had no idea how theatrical those early designs were. It reads like a proper fashion history book rather than a glossy tribute, and the paper quality holds up to repeated flipping.