Do you enjoy people watching in cafés, parks, museums, and fashionable shopping promenades? Would you enjoy browsing through backstage photographs captured during the era when supermodels sashayed down Paris runways? If so, consider adding one or both of these intriguing new/upcoming book releases to your bookshelf.
Quirky. Unique. Very New York City.
Union Square & Co.
On sale September 8, 2026
Character Study is a close-up view of the interesting characters artist Carly Kuhn observed at fashion shows, cafes, bars, museums, parties, and on the beach. Kuhn accompanies her sketches with personal observations on fashion ( “I’ve never met an accessory I could ignore”) interesting people, and favorite places (“Every time I go back to New York, I become a tourist in my own town.”).
Rewind to Paris Fashion Shows in the 90s: Runway Is Your Backstage Pass
By Kevin Merrill with a Foreword by Cindy Crawford
Union Square & Co, New York
On Sale October 6,2026
Backstage, the air was aways thick with cigarette smoke. Champagne flowed freely before and after every show. Featuring L.A. based photographer Kevin Merrill’s black and white 1990s Paris Haute Couture Week images, this coffee table photography book is a celebration of an extraordinary era in Paris haute couture runway shows. Merrill’s candid captures are a nostalgic recap of the days when mononymous supermodels (Naomi, Cindy, Linda, Tatjana) and designers( Karl, Andre, Oscar, Gianni, Yves) ruled the fashion runways.
