Books and fashion: an ongoing love affair

To present its fall-winter 2019-2020 haute couture collection, Chanel transformed the Grand Palais into a spectacular library, a tribute to Karl Lagerfeld’s passion for books. Photo: AFP

Deeply enmeshed with pop culture, fashion has for years, if not decades, had a parallel and even more intimate relationship with another art form that, like fashion, has long been interested in expressing ideals of beauty.

From Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to Jack Kerouac’s manuscripts and Truman Capote’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s, we look back at some of the most beautiful love stories between the worlds of fashion and fashion designers and literature.