Sunday afternoon is the perfect time to catch up on some non school-related reading, so we’re back again with another list of our favorite style-related books to add to your reading list. (In case you missed it, check out our list of our top 5 favorite general fashion books.) This time, we’re exploring the inspiring personalities who have made their marks on the industry over the years.

In no particular order, here are our top 5 favorite fashion biographies.

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1. D.V. by Diana Vreeland

D.V.

If you are a true fashion obsessive, this will, hands down, be the most amazing book you will ever read. Written by the legendary Diana Vreeland herself, D.V. is filled with exotic, bizarre and hilarious stories from her childhood in Paris, newly married life in England and of course, her tenure as editor of Harper’s Bazaar and then Vogue in New York City.

The book, of course, is not one hundred percent true, but that’s part of what makes it so great! Vreeland claims that she and her younger sister were the last ones to see The Mona Lisa before it was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, that she helped cure Jack Nicholson’s back pain, and that she watched Charles Lindbergh fly over her house during his most famous flight.

The book is filled with gems such as “Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute,” and “naturally, like everybody who drinks too much champagne, she began to get chins-but she kept her figure pretty well” in her personable, witty manner of writing that feels more like a conversation than a narrative.