Chloe Catwalk

The first comprehensive overview of Chloe’s collections presented through runway photography, published in collaboration with Chloe to celebrate the house’s 70th anniversary in 2022. Founded by Egyptian-born Gaby Aghion in 1952, Chloe pioneered luxury ready-to-wear that was all about ease and femininity, offering chic bohemian style for the modern, liberated Parisian. Resolutely contemporary, the house spotted and hired a young Karl Lagerfeld as early as the 1960s – he stayed for more than two decades, achieving worldwide fame and recognition through his work for Chloe, before Stella McCartney (and her then assistant Phebe Philo) made it straight out of fashion school. This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the House of Chloe before exploring the collections themselves, which are organised chronologically. Each new era in the Chloe story begins with a brief description and biography of the new designer, while individual collections are introduced by a short text revealing their influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully selected catwalk images. An enriched reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book. After Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Vivienne Westwood and Versace, Chloe is the eighth in a series of high-end, print books offering an unrivalled overview of the collections of the world's greatest fashion houses. Original catwalk photography.