Night-Table Reading

Anne McNally, muse for Tocca: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, introduction by Vyvyan Holland (Harper Perennial). "It stands for everything I like. "

Lady Amanda Harlech, muse for Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel: Other Men's Flowers, edited by Lord Wavell (Pimlico). "Points of definition— the coordinates of a passionate, courageous integrity that push you to make the leap of understanding. "

Lisa Eisner, muse for Isaac Mizrahi: Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell, by Deborah Solomon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). "Cornell was the first stargazer to see God in Garbo and Garbo in God. Anyone who could inspire Warhol, Lennon, Rauschenberg and Tony Curtis is more than a genius— he's an artisticJesus."

Carine Roitfeld, muse for Tom Ford, Gucci: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy (Penguin). "Fear, passion under a formal harmony: a real pleasure! I love Russian writers because they bring me back to my roots."