Merrell 2008
256 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781858944609
20 x 29 cm English text. Hardcover
Famed for their high-concept catwalk shows and extravagant collections, the radical Dutch design duo Viktor & Rolf have taken the fashion world by storm over the last 15 years. This sumptuously produced book is the most comprehensive exploration of Viktor & Rolf’s work to date, and includes an essay by the fashion historian Caroline Evans, an interview with the designers, a detailed biography and perceptive texts on each collection. Particular attention is given to signature looks from such collections as Atomic Bomb and Russian Doll, which showcase the duo’s unique blend of cool irony and surreal beauty. Featuring style shots by some of the world’s most celebrated photographers, catwalk images, behind-the-scenes snapshots and portraits, The House of Viktor & Rolf is a stunning tribute to two of the most original designers in haute couture. Price: £35.00
AVA 2008
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9782940373642
16 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
Basics Fashion Design: Textiles and Fashion guides the reader who is interested in the integration of textile design with fashion and also the fashion designer who wants to fully integrate garment design with textiles.
Underpinned with many visual examples, the book covers the history of textiles and links between technical innovation and social development. The processes of textile design are supported by practical information on fibre production, dyeing, and finishing as well as construction techniques such as weaving and knitting.
Basics Fashion Design: Textiles and Fashion teaches the entire process of creating and using fashion textiles. Various surface treatments are explored and the way in which colour and trend influences fashion and textiles.
The book also includes a section on fashion and textile designers exploring what they do and how they use textiles in their work, fully illustrated with examples of projects and exercises.
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192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9782940373758
Basics Fashion Design: Construction is the third book in this series. It leads the reader through the essential stages of creating a garment, from pattern cutting and draping a mannequin, to finishing and haberdashery.
Construction is the foundation of fashion design; it takes passion and great skill to turn a two-dimensional drawing into a successful garment. Basics Fashion Design: Construction guides you through the process, teaching you the theory, practical skills and techniques you need to succeed.
Key features
Guides students through the complex background to fashion construction.
Inspirational visuals support a comprehensive text.
Fully illustrated with case studies by top designers and industry creatives.
Laurence King 2005 second edition
240 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1856694364
21.5 x 25.5 cm English text. Softcover
This is the first book to offer a thorough grounding in the principles of fashion design. It describes the qualities and skills needed to become a fashion designer, examines the varied career opportunities available and gives a balanced inside view of the fashion business today. Its broad, up-to-date approach unites history, theory and practice. Subjects covered include how to interpret a project; building a collection; choosing fabric; fit, cutting and making techniques; portfolio presentation, and fashion marketing and economics. This new edition introduces many of the new technological developments impacting the fashion industry in the 21st century. There are expanded discussions of drawing and making techniques; how to assemble a portfolio; new careers in fashion; and extensive resource lists and glossaries, all rounded out with updated photographs and illustrations. Price: £22.50
Laurence King 2009
311 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781856695817
21.5 x 25 cm English text. Softcover
Featuring designers chosen for their contributions to fashion textiles and interior fabrics, the book showcases today’s most forward-thinking and exciting work that signals new directions in textile practice and the emergence of new textile forms and fibre technologies. Whether speaking from style capitals, such as London, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Berlin, Tokyo, and New York, or in less-trafficked cities, the designers describe their output and inspirations in their own words.
The book not only features images of completed designs, but also previously unseen archive material, such as work-in-progress photographs and digital drawings. These unique visuals create a stylish picture of today’s textiles, as well as an essential reference guide for those interested in contemporary textile design.
RRP £24.95
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Rizzoli 2008
256 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780847832163
25.5 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
Inventive, enigmatic, and supremely creative, Stephen Sprouse made art and clothing that captured the mood of the eighties. One of the first American designers to mix graffiti and a punk aesthetic with fashion, Sprouse manipulated conventional notions of style, and his unique sensibility has inspired designers from John Galliano to Raf Simmons to Marc Jacobs. Sprouse’s career started in the late seventies, when, after working for Halston, he migrated to a warehouse on the Bowery and started making outfits for his neighbor, Debbie Harry. The fashion world quickly embraced his innovative, culturally relevant sensibility and downtown edge. But Sprouse’s inability to compromise his artistic vision for the rigid fashion business compromised his commercial success. The Padilhas possess the largest private collection of Sprouse’s work, and were given exclusive access to his archives by his family for this project. They also obtained never-before-published images from photographers such as Steven Meisel, Bob Gruen, and Mert and Marcus. The book features a foreword by the novelist Tama Janowitz, one of Sprouse’s closest friends. The release of this book coincides with a retrospective at Deitch Projects. The book will be available with four different jackets, each featuring a different Day-Glo color, an homage to Sprouse’s iconic album cover for Debbie Harry’s Rockbird.
"...gets the star treatment in Rizzoli's upcoming The Stephen Sprouse Book, providing unfettered access to his work and wild life." ~ELLE
"As the book’s extensive interviews with friends Anna Sui, Iggy Pop and Kate Moss attest, Sprouse was both very much of his time and way ahead of it." ~Black Book
RRP £35.00
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Steidl 2009
272 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783865217295
24 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Another Magazine, one of the most influential and groundbreaking magazines in the world today, presents the first in a series of collectable books. Another Fashion Book rediscovers the photographic stories commissioned exclusively for its fashion pages over the past 8 years. For the first time, Another Fashion Book brings together in one volume extensive work by the most iconic names in fashion and art photography including Craig McDean, Nick Knight, Mario Sorrenti, Sam Taylor-Wood, Horst Diekgerdes, Stephen Shore, David Sims, Terry Richardson, Willy Vanderperre and Glen Luchford. Often blurring the boundary between art and fashion, the images are a distinct record of photographic innovation during the start of this century. Through a highly-considered commissioning process, Another Magazine and its community of photographers and stylists bridged the gap between the European and American style-divide of the 90s, to evolve a new international fashion language that has in many ways come to define the look of this decade. Creative director David James has recontextualised the archive, allowing an entirely new appreciation of the work, focusing solely on the outstanding fashion photography. All the images selected for publication have been specially reprinted for the book.
RRP £45.00
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Taschen 2009
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783836514323
14 x 19.5 cm English / French / German
From hippie to disco to punk, this look book relives 1970s fashion via clothing advertisements from the decade. In between its covers you`ll find bell-bottoms and feathered hair mingling with platform shoes, Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dresses and endless amounts of polyester (what were they thinking?). Price: £4.99
Laurence King 2008
224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856695425
21 x 16.5 cm English text. Softcover
Customizing is hot. Everything can be customized; from pimped cars to retro furniture. This major trend is especially popular in footwear. Customizing your own shoes is a way of stepping out of the crowd, of showing your personality. Just about every sneaker brand has found a way to put street art into their products; rain boots have never been more hip; and there are even customizing festivals and exhibitions. Showcasing the work of 150 artists and illustrators who have been invited to show/create customized shoes, the book will appeal not only to sneaker freaks, fashion fetishists and trend watchers, but also to the graphic-design and art audience. The text examines the trend and asks: how did it start? What materials do the artists use? There are also tips and tricks on how to create your very own unique shoes.
RRP £12.95
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Marsilio 2007
256 pages Colour and B&W reproductions ISBN 9788831791557
16 x 20.5 cm English text. Softcover
Savile Row has been home to some of the most exclusive tailors shops in the world for more than 200 years, creating one-of-a-kind bespoke suits for a very select clientele - Sir Winston Churchill, the English Royal Family, Fred Astaire, Cary Grant, Mick Jagger, David Beckham, Madonna, Brad Pitt, and Pete Docherty, to name but a few. "The London Cut" is a richly illustrated volume that not only tells the story of more than two hundred years of undisputed elegance, but also the contemporary nature of a style that still represents the pinnacle of male haute couture. Price: £13.99
OUT OF STOCK
208 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1 85669 540 9
20 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
Menswear is the most creative and dynamic area in fashion today. Changing attitudes, a relaxation of dress codes and larger disposable incomes have all led to men spending more money on looking good than ever before. Modern menswear is defying convention and changing the fashion landscape. Creating this focus is a group of visionaries who have shifted the boundaries of menswear design. Designers who have broken with tradition to visualize radical and directional clothing. They are not concerned with the formalities and traditions of menswear but see their garments as an expression of contemporary thought. With a huge range of imagery, Modern Menswear showcases these fashion leaders, profiling big names and emerging talent from across the world. Designers featured include Marc Jacobs, Yoji Yamamoto, Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano, providing an insight into their design processes and their contribution to the contemporary fashion aesthetic.
RRP £25.00
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London College of Fashion 2008
384 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781903455074
17 x 23.5 cm English text. Softcover
"The Measure" is a unique publication that offers a fascinating insight into the thoughts and working lives of an eclectic and prolific cross-section of fashion and design practitioners, academics and historians, commissioned by the London College of Fashion during its centenary year. Contributors were invited to share their experiences of working in London in a series of more than eighty articles, interviews and comments. New and original content from fashion luminaries sheds light on their genre and celebrates the amazingly diverse nature of their work and expertise, accompanied by visuals and original photoshoots from their personal archives.The eclectic nature of submissions both in terms of content and approach, size and accent, mimic the very place of which they speak: a cacophony of voices, some still students when the pieces were written; some industry leaders at the pinnacle of their careers but all with the same passion for place, celebrating the effect the capital has had upon their work.
288 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780847830206
22 x 29 cm English text. Hardcover
When those in the magazine industry need inspiration, they look to Purple. It has influenced countless other magazines and spawned trends that have trickled down through all levels of culture. To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, this volume brings together the best in fashion, art, and culture from Purple’s illustrious history. Purple revolutionized fashion photography in the nineties by commissioning fine artists to shoot fashion editorials. What resulted was a raw, improvisational aesthetic, which continues to exert its power today. Many of our most promising artists contribute to Purple’s pages, including Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, John Currin, and Vanessa Beecroft. Among the celebrity muses who appear regularly are Kim Gordon, Chloe Sevigny, Kate Moss, Catherine Deneuve, and Vincent Gallo. Along with images, the book also presents essays by such renowned writers as Glenn O’Brien, Gary Indiana, and Dave Hickey. These texts further the book’s larger purpose: to chart the development of art and fashion during the past fifteen years. This is the ultimate deluxe collection for serious fashion, art, photography, graphic design, and magazine aficionados.
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Thames & Hudson 2009
208 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780500288030
24 x 25.5 cm English text. Softcover
Chloë Colchesters up-to-the-minute survey reveals a diverse, exciting and provocative field, one at the vanguard of extraordinary technological developments while also the source of astonishing works of beauty. From colour-changing, light-sensitive camouflage to emergency shelters of cement-impregnated fabric bonded to an inflatable plastic, from Eley Kishimotos gorgeous patterns to the astonishing colours of Morphotex, this dazzlingly fresh sourcebook of original and inspiring designs will appeal to all designers and anyone with an interest in textiles.
RRP £18.95
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240 pages Collour reproductions. ISBN 9781856695657
19.5 x 27 cm English text. Softcover
In recent years the sneaker scene has exploded with limited editions and artist/designer collaborations. These specialist shoes are invariably produced as short runs, using innovative or luxury materials and often have bespoke packaging. "Art & Sole" is the first book to focus exclusively on contemporary, cutting-edge sneaker design. It sets out to explore and to celebrate the creative side of sneaker culture, showing the best and most original rarities/collaborations and previewing the latest art and design. These are the shoes at the sharp end of sneaker culture not shoes that can be found in your average sports shop. The book also highlights how creative advances on the scene have been furthered by a growing number of artists who base their work on sneakers - from sculptures made from dissected shoes, to oil paintings on canvas, and even the customization of the shoes themselves. There is now a huge crossover between sneakerculture and the worlds of art and design.
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Thames & Hudson 2008
192 pages Colour illustrations. ISBN 9780500513972
23.5 x 28.5 cm English text. Hardcover
This is the ultimate in fashion illustration: 280 stunning sketches by a galaxy of international fashion designers – a must-have for anyone interested in fashion or the art of illustration.
Sixty celebrated contemporary designers, from all the major fashion capitals, showcase their extraordinary artworks – many produced exclusively for this book.
From the world-famous such as Christian Lacroix, Sonia Rykiel and Yves Saint Laurent to up-and-coming visionaries including Jens Laugesen, Rodarte and Roksanda Ilincic, all the designers display artworks that are guaranteed to amaze and inspire. Refined and elegant, cartoon-like and colourful, or edgy and graphic, they highlight the unique creative impulse behind each designer’s work and an astonishing variety of media, techniques and approaches.
Complete with contact details and concise texts introducing each designer, this book gives a rare glimpse into the world of fashion design.
Work by the following designers: 3.1 Phillip Lim, Aitor Throup, Alena Akhmadullina , Anna Molinari by Rossella Tarabini, Antonio Berardi, Antonio Ciutto, Badgley Mischka, Bas Kosters, Basso & Brooke, Betsey Johnson, Boudicca, Bruno Frisoni, Bruno Pieters, Burfitt Chapurin, Christian Lacroix, Christian Wijnants, Christopher Kane, Costello Tagliapietra, Denis Simachëv, Doo.Ri, Elise Overland, Gary Graham, Generra By Pina Ferlisi, Giambattista Valli, Gianfranco Ferré, Giles, Gilles Rosier, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, Gustavo Arango, Hall Ohara, Hanuk, Hervé L. Leroux, Isaac Mizrahi, James Thomas, Jens Laugesen, Jørgen Simonsen, Karl Lagerfeld, Michael Vollbracht, Molly Grad, Peter Som, Ramírez, Richard Chai, Rodarte, Roksanda Ilincic, Sonia Rykiel, Stephen Burrows, Susan Cianciolo, Terexov, Tibi, Tsumori Chisato, Tuleh, Véronique Leroy, Walter Van Beirendonck, Wunderkind by Wolfgang Joop, Y&Kei Water The Earth, Yoshikazu Yamagata, Yves Saint Laurent, Zandra Rhodes, Zang Toi.
Phaidon 2005
272 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0714845108
16.5 x 22.5 cm English text. Flexicover
Fresh Fruits is the second collection of Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan’s premier street fanzine. ‘Fruits’ was established in 1994, by photographer Shoichi Aoki, initially as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. The magazine has grown to cult status and is now avidly followed by thousands of Japanese teenagers who also use the magazine as an opportunity to check out the latest styles and trends. The average age of the kids featured in the magazine is between 12 and 18, and the clothes that they wear are a mixture of high fashion – Vivienne Westwood is a keen favourite – and home-made ensembles which when combined create a novel, if not hysterical, effect.
This second extensive collection of portraits represents a unique documentation of the continually changing face of street fashion. Price: £19.95
immprint 2004
180 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1903781086
17 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
Fashion Forever is a unique account of the aesthetic choices of British youth and a comprehensive guide to three decades of style driven subcultures. This book also presents a unique collection of portraits of distinctive individuals, their looks, their styles and their very personal statements. Being in the thick of it for three decades, Iain McKell has an eye trained for detail, an acute sense of occasion and an appreciation of the absurd. As contemporary scenes mingle and mutate, at an increasingly fevered rate, Iain's camera is forever busy. Price: £14.99
Thames & Hudson 2005
256 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0500512159
22 x 20.5 cm English text. Hardcover
The sneaker has moved out from the sports arena and exploded into popular culture, a fashion staple that transcends race and class yet defines who you are in today’s urban tribes.
This encyclopedic, profusely illustrated guide displays over 180 sneakers chosen for the impact they have made on sneaker culture worldwide. Eleven leading brands – from adidas to Vans – are discussed in detail with full histories, while a further selection – from well-loved or long-lost classics to new designs – will excite both the novice collector and the committed sneaker freak.
Packed with over 550 specially commissioned photographs, and featuring an indispensable directory of collectors’ shops, resources and websites, as well as practical tips on how to build and care for your collection, this is the definitive guide to the very best and most collectable sneaker designs. Price: £16.95
Prestel 2005
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3791331752
29 x 23.5 cm English text. Flexicover
In Xtreme Fashion authors Courtenay Smith and Sean Topham turn their attention to the fashion world, where haute couture is taking a backseat to serious concerns about the environment, personal safety, and privacy. Featuring more than 300 color photos and fascinating text, the authors show how real fashion starts on the streets, born of urban conditions from gang culture to teenybopper worship. They showcase the works of designers, artists, and other creative individuals such as Moreno Ferrari, Freddie Robins, Vexed Generation, Alicia Framis, Daniele Buetti, Lucy Orta, and Hussein Chalayan to illustrate the demand for clothing that can protect, extend, alter, mark or mask the human body. Putting forth the idea that truly extreme fashion is not designed to be outlandish, but useful, Xtreme Fashion looks beyond the latest hemlines and "new blacks" to clothing and accessories that respond to the world we live in. Price: £25.00
Booth Clibborn Editions 2005
224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1861542941
15.5 x 22.5 cm English text. Softcover
This delightfully unconventional view of contemporary fashion as seen in the creative ways that people around the globe adorn their bodies - is the brainchild of graphic designer Tibor Kalman, who had finished the picture selection and design when he died in May 1999. Completed by his wife, noted children's book author Maira Kalman, (un)Fashion will startle, amuse, engross and enchant as it adds posthumously to Tibor Kalman's reputation as one of the graphic design geniuses of the 20th century. The images are organized by theme. A section on headgear ranges from men in bowler hats to hats fashioned out of newspapers and even a watermelon. The 'uniform' chapter groups together such unlikely companions as matadors, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders and Australian lifeguards. Teeming with surprising sights, from a Russian military dog in full gas-mask regalia and a whole body costume made of flowers, to an Indian Elvis and French chimney sweeps, (un)Fashion scans the globe to show how real people dress: at work, on the street or for ceremonial occasions. With virtually no text, it pokes gentle fun at the elitism of the fashion world, presenting its provocative observations through dynamic images by some of the world's foremost photojournalists. Price: £12.95
Thames and Hudson 2005
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0500284016
21 x 30 cm English text. Softcover
Whether hand-knitted or industrially produced, whimsical or theatrical, ingenious or just plain beautiful, these pieces are all stunning examples of the new vogue in knitting.
From Julien Macdonald’s cobweb confections and Lainey Keogh’s filigree works of art, through Prada’s classics with a twist and Missoni’s rainbow zigzags and stripes, to Martin Margiela’s avant-garde deconstructions and Issey Miyake’s revolutionary clothing concept A-POC, today’s designers are bringing radical ideas to knitwear design.
Developments in modern technology, a revival of traditional craft skills and a new appreciation of couture workmanship have all ensured knitwear’s place at the forefront of fashion. But the innovation is not confined to clothes design. Artists are creating knitted installations for museums and galleries; accessory designers such as Jo Gordon and Hikaru Noguchi use knitting for their imaginative and colourful creations; product designers are capitalizing on the unique visual and light-filtering qualities of knitted fabrics to make remarkable furnishings, lighting and jewelry. Price: £17.95
Berg 2004
288 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1859737579
Architecture is making its presence felt in cutting-edge fashion. The pliable metals, membrane structures, lightweight glasses and plastics used in building construction are creeping onto the catwalk. As they do so, their impact on recent textile developments has produced fabrics that enable clothing to act as individual climate-controlled environments that can exchange information with embedded sensors, resulting in wearable 'dwellings' that act as both shelter and clothing. At the same time, architects are borrowing the techniques of pleating, stapling, cutting and draping from traditional tailoring to design buildings that are flexible, interactive, inflatable and even portable.
Although the relationship between architecture and fashion was recognized more than a century ago, the connection between them has rarely been explored by historians, designers or practicing architects. The Fashion of Architecture is the first attempt to investigate the contemporary relationship between architecture and fashion in considerable depth, by examining the ideas, imagery, techniques and materials used by visionaries such as Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, Tadao Ando and Daniel Libeskind. As mavericks ranging from Hussein Chalayan and Rei Kawakubo to Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid describe architecture's role in the formation of fashion identities, new readings of both areas emerge. Probing and far-reaching in its content, The Fashion of Architecture is the most comprehensive study of this exciting area to date.
'We've always admitted the links between car design and architecture, but buildings and fashion? It takes some bravery to talk of fashion in terms beyond superficial styling to clothing design innovations in the same breath as an architectural legend, but in doing so Quinn proves that the two disciplines are intertwined in more ways than we might think. The Fashion of Architecture reveals congruencies that many (in both industries) might prefer to ignore... to their peril.'
Henrietta Thompson, Editor, Blueprint
'Bradley Quinn traces the structures and spatial boundaries that are the common guidelines of fashion designers and architects and succeeds in pinpointing the similarities and differences these creative fields have gone through in the last century. "The Fashion of Architecture" is an accurate and detailed account of their mutual influences.'
Boris Moshkovits, Berliner Magazine Price: £19.99
Thames and Hudson 2004
184 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0500284997
23.5 x 29 cm English text. Softcover
Today’s illustrators don’t just depict trends
– they set them.
A few years ago, when Laird Borrelli’s bestselling Fashion Illustration Now was published, few commentators predicted the great renaissance in illustration that has now taken place.
Now, fuelled by the book’s publication, illustration is booming as never before.
Fashion Illustration Next focuses on the most innovative and exciting of the newly established names and a host of stars in the making, showing the highly distinctive styles of more than
40 international illustrators from 15 countries. It represents work not only from the world’s most influential fashion and style magazines, but also includes unpublished work either specially commissioned for Fashion Illustration Next or drawn from the artists’ own collections.
Complete with a self-portrait by each artist to accompany biographies and contact details, the result is one of the most irresistible and indispensable fashion publications of recent years.
Laird Borrelli is the Senior Fashion Editor at Style.com in New York City. A fashion historian and writer, her publications include Fashion Illustration Now and Net Mode. She has curated numerous international projects and exhibitions. Price: £16.95
Charta 2004
464 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8881584654
Today, producing a book on fashion in the '80s is not merely a question of immortalising one of the most feverish periods for invention, creativity and variety in our recent history. Excess is an exhibition on fashion which chronicles the achievements of the fashion establishment in Italy and the rest of the world through its protagonists and trends. A fashion establishment which has become an a conomic phenomenon, acquiring enormous influence in terms of culture and communication. The book is a catalogue of the exhibition but also a large index organised scientifically and informatively so as to become an indispensable point of reference for operators, critics and students. It is not chronological but proceeds by themes (career women, sexy women, American Gigolo, Night Clubbing, Wild Boys, Yuppies, graffiti...). There will also be a series of appendixes or indexes to relate and catalogue the new professions, new words and new fashions balanced between mainstream and underground. Price: £28.00
Metropolitan Museum of Art 2004
168 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0300103123
23. 5 x 30 cm English text. Softcover
Over time and across cultures, extraordinary manipulations of the body have occurred in a continuing evolution of the concept of beauty. Fashion can be seen as the practice of some of the most extreme strategies to conform to shifting concepts of the physical ideal. Various zones of the body--the neck, the shoulders, the bust, the waist, the hips, and the feet--have been constricted, padded, truncated, or extended through subtle visual adjustments of proportion, less subtle prosthesis, and, often, deliberate physical deformation.
The book shows that an undeniable if uncanny beauty abides in the bundled cylindricality of a geisha tottering on raised geta or clogs; the tea-tray supporting bustle of an 1880s French visiting dress; the double-door expanse of eighteenth-century panniered court gowns; the bound feet and caged nails of aristocratic Manchu women; the neck-extending chokers of the Masai, of Edwardian beauties, and of John Galliano?s designs for Dior; or the waist suppression of the sixteenth-century iron corsets and the cinches of early-nineteenth-century dandies. The photographs of fashion are augmented by paintings, prints, and drawings, including caricatures by Gilray, Cruikshank, Daumier, and Vernet. Price: £19.95
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9073285984
18 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition WOMAN BY at Centraal Museum Utrecht.
In the catalogue you'll find interviews with the nine contemporary fashion designers that are present in the exhibition: Vivienne Westwood, Christian Dior Couture, Maison Martin Margiela, Junya Watanabe, Ann Demeulemeester, Veronique Leroy, Bernard Willhelm, Viktor & Rolf and Hussein Chalayan.
In 2003 it seems that every fashion designer has their own story to tell. There is no single image of woman and no single fashion style, but many. But beneath the superficial diversity one can discern a number of clear lines that follow logically from the new sociopolitical situation in the early 21st century. The emancipation of women in the 1970s has influenced the way in which we experience femininity. In the 1980s the Japanese first succeeded in introducing a non-Western aesthetic in fashion, as a result of which Paris has since become a multicultural platform where Moslem designers such as Hussein Chalayan are able to find their way. Another explanation is to be found in the development of the fashion process itself. Why is it that that one ideal image and that single absolute ‘look’ is considered outmoded? Price: £30.00
Taschen 2003
640 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 382282187X
19.5 x 25 cm English/French/German text. Softcover
Fashion Now is the first comprehensive anthology of contemporary fashion. Compiled by the style-savvy staff of the seminal monthly i-D, Fashion Now profiles the work of the 150 most important designers around the globe, focusing on not only the biggest names but also the most exciting up-and-coming talent.
With A to Z designer entries that include exclusive interviews, biographical information, photos of recent designs by today’s leading photographers, and current catwalk shots, Fashion Now is a vital contemporary reference book and a beacon that will remain relevant for future generations. Price: £19.99
Laurence King 2003
544 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 1856693449
22.5 x 27 cm English text. Softcover
This updated and expanded edition of "The Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion" defines more than 15,000 fashion terms, including apparel and accessory items and their components, relevant fashion business terms, and textile and historical elements that relate to contemporary fashion. The terms are organized into 51 categories that cover such areas as active wear, blouses and tops, clothing construction details and footwear. In addition, the inclusion of pronunciation guides for foreign words, alphabetical page tabs and the cross-referencing of the categories to the alphabetical listing make this reference text easy to use. New illustrations and labelled "anatomical" drawings capture the details of fashion and show how the parts of fashion items fit together. Price: £29.95
UP& CO 2003
96 pages Colour reproductions. No ISBN
10 x 15 cm English text. Softcover
VERYstyleguide LONDON is the bi-annual pocketsize city-bible, a mixture of mini-mag and personal shoppers' diary. This new edition is the coming season's essential bag-filler. Seriously unisex, they fit snugly into jeans and jacket pockets. Recommendations are jotted down by the scenesters themselves, including boutiques, restaurants, bars, cafés, neighborhoods, clubs, theaters, spas and much more. Price: £5.00
VERYstyleguide New York is the bi-annual pocketsize city-bible, a mixture of mini-mag and personal shoppers' diary. This new edition is the coming season's essential bag-filler. Seriously unisex, they fit snugly into jeans and jacket pockets. Recommendations are jotted down by the scenesters themselves, including boutiques, restaurants, bars, cafés, neighborhoods, clubs, theaters, spas and much more. Price: £5.00
Berg Publishers 2003
224 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 1859736068
15 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
With so much focus on contemporary theory, it is easy to forget that the serious analysis of clothing and fashion has a long history. In fact, they have been the subject of intense cultural debate since the 19th century. "Fashion Classics" provides an interpretative overview of the groundbreaking and often idiosyncratic writings of eight theorists whose work has influenced the conceptual and theoretical basis of our contemporary understanding of clothes and the fashion system. Carter fully revives early "fashion theorists" - some canonical and others less well known - and examines them in light of more recent work. From Carlyle's fantastical character Professor Teufelsdrockh, through the first Freudian analysis of clothes by J.C. Flugel, the pioneering work of Spencer, Veblen, Simmel, Kroeber, Laver and finally Barthes' monumental work on the modern fashion system, this book explores and explains the foundations of fashion theory. Not only does it provide an historical outline of Western conceptions of clothes and fashion, but it also highlights how ideas intermix and build on one another. Carter's narrative shows that views on fashion have always been impassioned - perhaps most notably Carlyle's notorious attack on Dandyism and Veblen's suggestion that clothes should be made out of old newspaper. This book also makes sense of complex theory and is aimed at anyone seeking an overview of the history of fashion theory. Price: £14.99
Berg 2002
256 pages ISBN 1859736203
14.5 x 21.5 cm English text. Softcover
From digital-display dresses to remote control couture, this book exposes the revolutionary interface between contemporary fashion and technology. 21st century fashion makes a dramatic departure from traditional methods; rather than looking to the past for inspiration, designers now look to the hi-tech future. The result is "i-wear", the buzzword for intelligent clothing that fuses fashion with communication technology, electronic textiles, and sophisticated design innovations to express new ideas about appearance, construction, and functionalism. Price: £14.99
VERYstyleguide FASHION 1 is the global creative-biz directory for the international fashion/art/design set. Stylists, designers, photographers, film-makers and video-producers, the new global folks. With a penchant for the independent and avant-garde, VERYstyleguide FASHION serves as the ultimate "best-of" directory. Price: £5.00
VERYstyleguide FASHION 2 is the global creative-biz directory for the international fashion/art/design set. Stylists, designers, photographers, film-makers and video-producers, the new global folks. With a penchant for the independent and avant-garde, VERYstyleguide FASHION serves as the ultimate "best-of" directory. Price: £5.00
Tdm Éditions, Paris 2002
50 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 2912148030
20 x 26 cm Englsih text. Hardcover
Verhoeven is a leading fashion illustrator and regular contributor to Self Service, Dazed & Confused, The Face, the Independent on Saturday, and is the designer for the Spring/Summer 2002 Cacharel fashion show. For her first solo-exhibition she presents 40 lively drawings and painted collages inspired by her favourite pop songs.
Her work is introduced with an up-beat about women music essay by Bethan Cole. Price: £32.00
Die Gestalten Verlag 2002
160pp Colour reproductions throughout. ISBN 3931126870
23 x 27pp English/German text. Hardcover
The work of Laurent Fétis, Darling of the Paris Fashion Scene, situates itself at the cutting edge of French graphism avant-garde. Highly acclaimed for his modern take on 60s/70s psychedelia, Fétis colourful images are typically built from a mixture of photography, illustration and graphics combining both retro and techno styles. As an Art Director, Laurent Fétis has designed campaigns for labels like Anna Sui or Bless, CD covers for Tahiti 80, Mellow and Hideki Kaji as well as being a regular contributor to the worlds leading design magazines such as Vogue, Dazed and Confused or The Face. But it would be too easy to reduce Fétis work simply to his commercial assignments. As an artist he has contributed to several exhibitions, most significantly shown at the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, the French National Library and in the London Subway. Recently Fétis supervised the graphic work for Roman Coppola’s first feature film „CQ“: His first book, ABC+, allows a peek into the designers incredible versatile output, icluding photographs, illustrations, collages and typography. Price: £26.99
