Holiday Gift Guide: Top 5 Street Style Fashion Books

BY: MAEGAN J

InStyle Australia

Are you looking for a gift for the fashion-lover in your life? Or maybe you're looking to up your style game and unleash your inner street style star? We've crafted a unique holiday gift guide of books that focus solely on street fashion and personal style.  So whether you want to marvel at street fashion photos, explore how our garments define and shape our lives, or read revealing tips on dressing with confidence and livening up your workwear, each of these books would make a welcome addition to any fashion-lovers library.
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Fresh Fruits by Shoichi Aoki

Fresh Fruits is a collection of Tokyo teenage street fashion portraits selected from Japan’s premier street fanzine of the same title.

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Women in This Town by Giuseppe Santamaria

In his follow-up to Men in this Town, photographer, art director and blogger Giuseppe Santamaria brings together a unique photographic collection showcasing the styles of the modern woman on the streets of London, Tokyo, Paris, Madrid, LA, Melbourne and New York.

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Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton

Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities—famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old—on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives.

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Know Your Style: Mix It, Match It, Love It by Aylson Walsh

In Know Your Style, Alyson Walsh speaks to fashion experts and creative women from around the globe, to gather ideas and information and reveal how to dress with confidence and lead a stylish life.

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Time After Time: Flashback Fashion for Modern-day Play by Minna Gilligan

In Time After Time, fashion icon Minna Gilligan imparts her wisdom and penchant for mixing and matching fashion, and details contemporary ways to wear vintage things, in combination with current 'new' items of clothing.

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Maegan J 
Maegan J is a wardrobe stylist, costume designer for Soft Cage films and contributor to THE FASHION MAP.

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