David Bailey’s *Eighties* gathers the photographer’s fashion work from a decade defined by enlarged silhouettes, emphatic colour and theatrical self-presentation. Drawn from assignments for publications including *Vogue Italia*, *Vogue Paris* and *Tatler*, the book considers 1980s fashion not simply as a succession of trends, but as a public language of ambition, glamour and display. Bailey, already associated with the transformation of British fashion photography in the 1960s, meets this later period on its own exuberant terms.

The photographs move across couture, runway and ready-to-wear, encompassing designs by Azzedine Alaïa, Comme des Garçons, Guy Laroche, Missoni, Stephen Jones, Valentino and Yves Saint Laurent. Their clothes are animated by a remarkable cast: Catherine Deneuve, Princess Diana, Grace Jones, Jerry Hall, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Tina Turner and others. The resulting ensemble places celebrity portraiture, editorial image-making and fashion history in close conversation. Bailey’s characteristic directness tempers the decade’s spectacle with wit, allowing pose and personality to remain visible beneath the styling.

Published by TASCHEN in 2025, this 296-page hardcover includes an introduction by Grace Coddington and a foreword by Bailey. Together, these elements frame the photographs from both editorial and authorial perspectives. Rather than reducing the period to familiar emblems—padded shoulders, high heels, bright surfaces—the volume shows how designers, models, performers and magazines collectively constructed its visual codes.

For collectors of fashion and portrait photography, the book’s importance lies in the concentration of Bailey’s 1980s editorial work within a single sustained publication. It offers a focused view of how commercial commissions can become historical documents: records of clothing, certainly, but also of gesture, confidence and changing ideas of public identity. At a moment when the decade’s maximalism continues to recur across fashion and popular culture, *Eighties* provides a useful primary perspective on the images that helped establish that vocabulary.