The Met is celebrating American photographer, Irving Penn’s 70 year career with a retrospective of his work.  Penn was known for his fashion photography and portraits.  The photograph above is an iconic fashion study of his wife and muse, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn in a Balenciaga Mantle coat for Paris Vogue 1950.

I love this new book by Terry Newman.  It features literary icons like Samuel Beckett, Joan Didion and Patti Smith, to name a few, and the influence that clothing has on the worlds they inhibit. If you like writers and like style..you’ll love this book!