STYLE SHELF

Vanities/Books

Nine books that dwell in the world of aesthetics, from the fashions of Dublin streets to the sumptuous interiors of New York City

In almost 10 years of talking and working together with Bowie, I learned that he had a deep faith in art as cultural transformation. If a song were a pathway to another way ofbeing or a different society, why not a magazine page?" —Dean journalist, in the Ray Gun retrospective

I thought who I was, what I wore when caught off my guard, was much more interesting than anything I could have planned. Also I felt that my life, every thought I had, every gesture I made, was authentic." —Isaac Mizrahi, author and deaigner, in hia memoir

[Ethan James] Green isa counterculture portraitist, alive to a New York that still feels, somehow, like a freewheeling Wild West. His subjectsmusicians and designers and all manner of 'cre atives'—are emissaries from a generation that has bushwhacked new expanses of gender expression and been reared on the self-curating powers of social media." —Hari Nef, model and actress, in the foreword to Green's monograph