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Books that celebrate fashion as so much more than the clothes we wear.

As New York fashion photographer Bill Cunningham once eloquently put it, ‘Fashion is the armour to survive the reality of everyday life’. And as a mash-up of pop-culture, design, history, religion, art, subculture, ideology, functionality and classism, the outfits we choose each day play no small part in how we express ourselves to the world. Whether you’re ahead of the trend or struggling to keep up, here are some books where the clothes steal the show.