Product, Fashion and Car Design

Design products on nature's model, where waste becomes food for the next cycle.

Chanel's origins, her creative work and her private suffering, from new research.

The standard biography before Chaney and Vaughan.

The foundational biography; every later book argues with it.

The house history of Louis Vuitton, the brand at the centre of its luxury group.

As-told-to: Morand's record of her 1946 conversations, published posthumously.

House-access biography; good on the business, softer on the war.

Academic study of how IKEA constructed its Swedishness.

Reads the brand as politics; the most intellectually serious account.

Galliano and McQueen inside the LVMH and Kering machine.

How Marie Antoinette used fashion as a political weapon, and how it led to her fall.

An A-to-Z perfume guide whose authors praise, joke about and scold each scent.