STORIA DELLA MODA, STILISTI

Quale donna può resistere immaginandosi in un bellissimo abito firmato? Qui, per la prima volta in assoluto, ci sono 100 favolosi abiti della collezione permanente del rinomato Costume Institute al Metropolitan Museum of Art, ognuno dei quali è un promemoria dei modi in cui la moda riflette la cultura più ampia che l'ha creata. Con disegni di Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel, Madame Gres, Yves Saint Laurent, Gianni Versace, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen e molti altri, questa collezione unica nel suo genere presenta una straordinaria varietà di capi. Che vanno dagli abiti abbottonati della fine del 17 ° secolo ai design all'avanguardia dei primi del 21 ° secolo, gli abiti riflettono la sensibilità e gli eccessi di ogni epoca fornendo un quadro vivido di come gli stili sono cambiati, a volte radicalmente, nel corso degli anni . Un abito di lana della fine del 1600 con un sorprendente tocco di filo d'argento; un abito di raso rosso molto vivace del 1800; un abito da ballo corto degli anni '20 luccicante; un abito da cocktail glamour degli anni '50; e un miniabito degli anni '60 - ognuno racconta una storia del suo periodo e funge da testimonianza dell'ingegnosità duratura dell'arte dello stilista.Le immagini degli abiti sono accompagnate da un testo informativo e arricchite da dettagli ravvicinati, nonché foto da passerella, piatti di moda, opere d'arte e ritratti di designer. È incluso anche un glossario di termini correlati.

Questo catalogo riccamente illustrato accompagnerà una mostra al Brighton Museum and Art Gallery nel 2006. Gli oggetti esposti sono tratti dall'ampio guardaroba di quattro generazioni della famiglia di Lord Snowdon: Messel-Rosse-Linley-Sambourne-Snowdons. Il libro utilizza questi esempi per tracciare l'evoluzione dell'elegante abito inglese dalla fine del XIX secolo agli anni '70 e viene portato ai tempi moderni attraverso oggetti prestati da familiari viventi.

Un simbolo di intimità e seduzione, il basso, profondo fino alla pelle, ha rivoluzionato l'approccio artistico del nudo femminile. Fotografie, dipinti, manifesti, spot pubblicitari, da Courbet a Degas, Lautrec, Picasso, Van Dongen, Cappiello, Gruau, Molinier, Man Ray o Klossowski; rivelare il potere erotico dell'arte.

Lo stretto legame tra moda e arte espressa dai più famosi stilisti: Poiret, Dior, Balenciaga, Vionnet, Vivier, Issey MiyakeUn universo tra moda e arte tutto da scoprire grazie al libro di Valérie de Givry che riassume ciò che la moda può immaginare di essere: creativa, sfarzosa, insolita, sconcertante e frivola che incontra l'arte e ne diventa elegante alleata creando soluzioni uniche. Arte e moda ci permette di apprezzare le complicazioni estetiche, stilistiche o concettuali tra couturier e artisti nel corso del ventesimo secolo.

Questo è il libro più informativo disponibile per chi ama i bottoni, scritto da un collezionista di seconda generazione che ha viaggiato in tutto il mondo per espandere la sua conoscenza di questo emozionante oggetto da collezione. Il libro presenta oltre 10.000 bottoni di tutti i materiali immaginabili dal 150 d.C. ad oggi a colori e la loro storia e sviluppo in tutto il mondo. I bottoni sono stati la parte in più rapida crescita nel mondo del collezionismo negli ultimi anni; questo libro diventerà sicuramente la "Bibbia" per gli appassionati di bottoni, i commercianti o chiunque ami gli oggetti belli.

This beautiful reference work showcases 50 iconic outfits from one of fashion's most influential and exciting decades. Featured designers and style icons will include Jimmy Choo, Prada, Sarah Jessica Parker, Marc Jacobs, Princess Diana (post divorce), Kate Moss, Corinne Day, Grunge, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cool Britannia, Topshop, Julian Macdonald, Modern Preppy, Herve Leger, Matthew Williamson, Gianni Versace, Hip-hop and the Rachel haircut. With Paula Reed's lively and informative text and a wealth of fabulous photography, it is vital reading for design students, collectors of vintage, and everyone who truly loves fashion.

The most popular 1940s styles, from couture to everyday workclothes, ensembles, sportswear, lingerie, and evening dresses, plus toys, needlework, and gifts, are presented here in 550 color photographs of pattern envelopes from companies like Advance, Butterick, Hollywood, McCall, Simplicity, Vogue, and others. A wide array of pattern-related items is presented, including publications and advertising, display dolls, tools, and various forms of packaging. The pattern envelope illustrations are wonderful period drawings of '40s fashions. All who enjoy these great styles will find Blueprints of Fashion to be a refreshing approach and an important first book on this growing field of interest.

Interviste ai più importanti nomi della moda: Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Paul Smith e Hussein Chalayan; così come grandi nomi internazionali provenienti da Giappone, Italia, Francia e Stati Uniti: Rei Kawakubo di Comme des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake, Tom Ford, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana, Donatella Versace, Sonia Rykiel e altri. Le interviste forniscono uno spaccato della vita dei designer, dettagli biografici completi e analisi del modo in cui pensano e lavorano, oltre a registrare il clima culturale in quel momento. Il libro è illustrato con ritratti e scatti di alcuni dei migliori fotografi di moda di oggi - sia più affermati che emergenti - tra cui Robert Wyatt, Juergen Teller, Donald Christie, Julie Sleaford, Mark Aleski, Justin Smith e Jane McLeish.

American Dior contiene disegni dettagliati dalle basi elaborate, immagini della collezione New Look e altro. Con l'introduzione del New look, Dior è diventato l'agente provocatore per eccellenza della moda americana giocando sull'appetito del paese per la novità e per il savoir-faire francese. La collezione ha rivoluzionato l'abito femminile: i suoi disegni erano più voluttuosi con l'uso di tessuti foderati in percalle, corpetti in stile bustier, imbottiture per i fianchi, corsetti e sottoveste a vita di vespa, dando ai suoi modelli una forma molto sinuosa. Dior diceva che il suo cliente avrebbe dovuto essere "la donna più elegante del mondo", che si è rivelata vera, vestendo, tra le altre, un elenco di icone americane come Lauren Bacall, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe ed Elisabeth Taylor.

Casual clothing, swimwear in particular, is strongly associated with the California lifestyle, and the design and manufacture of casual clothing has long been the foundation of California's garment industry. This book explores that industry as it developed in California from the 1930s through the 1970s, with emphasis on clothing and textile designs suffused with the sunshine spirit. Included are fashions from major swimwear companies such as Catalina, Cole, and Rose Marie Reid; sportswear from leaders like Koret and Alice of California; and a wonderful chapter paying tribute to that most western of fabrics, blue denim. More than 330 photographs and advertisements illustrate the colorful, cheerful, and charming nature of vintage casual clothing. Collectors, designers, and fashion historians will appreciate the profiles of California artisans and their influence on fabric technology. Includes price guide and a helpful glossary of fashion and fabric terminology.

Il 21 gennaio 1971, il couturier Yves Saint Laurent ha presentato la sua collezione haute couture Primavera-Estate. Ispirata ai capi degli anni della guerra, la collezione comprendeva abiti corti, scarpe con plateau, spalle squadrate e trucco esagerato. La mostra ha suscitato indignazione tra il pubblico, la critica e la stampa allo stesso modo, guadagnandosi il titolo di "collezione più brutta di Parigi". Tuttavia, i design haute couture della passerella si sono fatti strada sui boulevard, dando piena influenza alla tendenza "retrò" che ha rapidamente conquistato le strade.

This lavisly illustrated book tells the history of Horrockses Fashions, one the most famous postwar British ready-to-wear labels. In the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, Horrockses’ created designs with a fresh, distinctive look, and were celebrated for their lively floral prints and full-skirted summer dresses, which were popular with women of every background, including the royal family. In addition, they collaborated with contemporary artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, Alastair Morton, and Graham Sutherland to design textiles. The book includes interviews with many of the people who made, wore, and designed these dresses and reproduces magazine spreads and illustrations from the period.Horrockses maintained an air of exclusivity for the brand with an emphasis on good quality fabrics, especially the finest cotton, with custom-designed patterns and an emphasis on couture styling.  Their fashions are highly collectable today. Horrockses Fashions tells the story of this iconic label and its role in the history of British fashion while also exploring the connections between couture and ready-to-wear fashions in the post-WWII decades.

Jacqueline Groag was probably the most influential textile designer in Britain in the post Second World War era. Although originally Czech, she studied textile and pattern design in Austria in the 1920s. During the late twenties and early thirties she designed textiles for the Wiener Werkstatte in Vienna and subsequently designed and produced unique hand printed lengths of fabrics for many of the leading Parisian fashion houses, including Chanel, Lanvin, Worth, Schiaparelli and Paul Poiret. She was awarded a gold medal for textile design at the Milan Triennale in 1933 and another gold medal for printed textiles at the Paris World Fair in 1937. Jacqueline was not only a serious and highly respected contender in the field of textile and pattern design but, with her husband, the Modernist architect Jacques Groag, was also deeply immersed in the intellectual life of Vienna.In 1938 the sophisticated world of Jacques and Jacqueline was brutally shattered when the Anschluss, the political unification of Austria and Germany, occurred and the German army entered Vienna. Faced with the actuality of the Nazi terror the Groags, who were Jewish, fled to Czechoslovakia and their home city of Prague. After a brief respite they were once more forced to flee in 1939, this time to London. On their arrival in England they were welcomed and championed by leading members of the British design fraternity, amongst whom were Sir Gordon Russell, the doyen of British architects Sir Charles Reilly and Jack Pritchard, founder of the modernist design company, Isokon. Much of the Contemporary style of the textiles and wallpapers shown at the 1951 Festival of Britain were heavily indebted to Jacqueline's influential designs of the 1940s. Many examples of her work were featured prominently at the Festival and from then on she became a major influence on pattern design internationally. She developed a large client group in the United States during the fifties and sixties, amongst whom were Associated American Artists, Hallmark Cards and American Greetings Ohio.In the later 1950s and throughout the 1960s she became increasingly involved with Sir Misha Black and the Design Research Unit (D.R.U.), working on the interiors for boats and planes and trains, particularly the design of textiles and plastic laminates for BOAC and British Rail. One of her last commissions from Misha Black, in the mid-seventies was a distinctive moquette for London Transport, for seating on both buses and tube trains. Her work and influence did not just extend to the large corporations and exclusive couturiers but was familiar to the general public through stores and companies such as John Lewis, Liberty of London, David Whitehead, Edinburgh Weavers, Sandersons, Warerite and Formica. Her remarkable achievement finally received public recognition in 1984 when, at the age of 81, she was made an R.D.I. - a Royal Designer for Industry - the ultimate accolade for any designer in Britain.

This fascinating publication presents the roles two men have played in turning a small workshop in nineteenth-century Paris into one of the most successful and recognized brands in the world. Known for both craftsmanship and must-have high design, Louis Vuitton the luxury house was started by its eponymous founder in 1854. The first half of this publication traces the innovations by Vuitton, who turned the little-known guild profession of emballeur (packer) into the foremost luxury trunk maker in Paris, with a clientele that included in his lifetime the French nobility as well as the elite of a prosperous empire. Prime and never-before-seen examples of Vuitton’s craftsmanship, along with the fashion that went into them, are the highlights of these chapters. The second half of the book examines the role of Marc Jacobs as Louis Vuitton’s creative director (since 1997), who took the Louis Vuitton house into a new era with a series of collaborations with artists and designers—such as Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, and Stephen Sprouse—as well as designing a line of highly successful and desired clothing for the company. By examining two divergent but often similar careers one hundred years apart, Louis Vuitton / Marc Jacobs is not only a layered study of the evolution of a luxury brand in the past 150 years but also a celebration of technical and design innovations in the new century.