Le designer Christopher Dresser a très bien compris comment tirer parti de la révolution industrielle dans le domaine du textile. Il a imaginé des motifs de tissus pour les plus grandes marques de son temps (Barlow & Jones, Tootal, Warner & Sons, Turnbull & Stockdale) devenant rapidement le plus prolifique designer de l'époque, d'autant plus que ses textiles étaient vendus à des prix abordables, le rendant populaire dans les journaux de mode. Son héritage est cependant peu connu aujourd'hui : cette première monographie sur Christopher Dresser vient remédier à ce manque de documentation.
Over 75 influential and celebrated fashion designers and personalities showcase their favourite dress, offering very personal insights into the reasons behind their choice Presents an exciting group of designers and key industry players, with an introduction by Suzy Menkes Sumptuous fashion photography complements these lavish creations A simple idea. A stunning result This lavishly illustrated publication is a commentary on the emotional attachment that various key fashion personalities from designers, celebrities, models, photographers, stylists and fashion editors have with the one thing that is treasured in their memory or wardrobe: their Favourite Dress. 75 designers and key industry players from around the world have described the very personal reasons behind their choice, through text, photographs by leading fashion photographers, fabric samples, original sketches and other ephemera their choices come alive on the page. The dresses selected by these individuals are intriguing and highlights the intimacy that the designer and wearer feels with their garment.
This book gives the audience an opportunity to explore how a dress can be a creative statement, a symbol of celebration, power, and individuality. My Favourite Dress is about choice, memory and a moment; a must have for any fashionista.
Designers featured include: Alber Elbaz for Lanvin, Alberta Ferretti, Alexander McQueen, Amanda Wakeley, Angela Missoni, Anna Sui, Anne Valerie Hash, Antonio Berardi, Anthony Price, Barbara Hulanicki, Bella Freud, Ben de Lisi, Bernhard Willhelm, Betsy Johnson, Betty Jackson, Boudicca, Calvin Klein, Caroline Herrera, Caroline Charles, Catherine Malandrino, Christian Lacroix, Clements Ribeiro, Daisy de Villeneuve, David Sassoon, Diane Pernet, Diane von Furstenberg, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karen, Dries Van Noten, Eley Kishimoto, Elie Sabb, Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein, Gianfranco Ferre, Giles Deacon, Giorgio Armani, Glenda Bailey, Hamish Morrow, Isaac Mizrahi, Isabel Toledo, Issey Miyake, Jane Bruton, Jasper Conran, Joe Casely-Hayford, John Galliano, John Rocha, Julie Verhoven, Julien McDonald, Louise Goldin, Luella Bartley, Margaret Howell, Maria Grachvogel, Markus Lupfer, Mary Quant, Max & Lubov Azria for Herve Leger, Michiko Koshino, Naoki Takizawa, Nicole Farhi, Oriole Cullen, Oscar de la Renta, Osman Yousefzada, Paco Rabanne, Paul Smith, Pearce Fionda, Ralph Lauren, Rick Owens, Rowland Mouret, Rosella Jardini for Moschino, Sophie Albou for Paul & Joe, Stella McCartney, Stephen Jones, Thierry Mugler, Tracey Emin, Tristan Webber, Valentino, Vera Wang, Vivienne Westwood, Zac Posen, Zandra Rhodes.
Femmes Fatales raconte l'histoire de la mode du point de vue de créatrices. Ce livre comprend des oeuvres de Coco Chanel, Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiapparelli, Lary Quant, Vivienne Westwood, Sonia Rykiel, Miuccia Prada, Maria Grazia Chiuri (Dior), Stella Mc Cartney, Clare Waight Keller (Givenchy) ainsi que des grandes créatrices hollandaises comme Fong Leng, Sheila de Vries et Iris van Herpen.
Depuis les années 1940, les collaborations entre artistes et fabricants de textile se sont multipliées. Ce livre de la série « Textile Design » présente de nombreuses créations par près de 80 artistes parmi lesquels Braque, Chagall, Calder, Dali, Derain, Matisse, Moore, Picasso, Paolozzi, Steinberg ou Warhol. De superbes photos, spécialement réalisées pour cette édition, révèlent des tissus méconnus et largement inédits.
Une monographie consacrée au créateur John Bates qui domina la scène de la mode britannique du début des années 1960 à la fin des années 1970.
On lui doit entre autres la garde-robe de Diana Rigg dans la série Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir.
This is the story of David Sassoon, the fashion designer whose name has been synonymous with the world of glamour for the last 50 years. . This is a fashion book with a difference -gossipy, fun, informative and revealing - it is a fascinating personal recollection of a sparkling career spanning 5 decades, dressing some of the world's most beautiful and charismatic women of their day, among them Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ava Gardner.As the formality of the '50s gave way to the swinging Sixties, the new design partnership of Bellville Sassoon soon became Britain's foremost couture label.
A designer roll call that includes John Galliano, Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Anna Sui, Valentino, Donatella Versace, Oscar de la Renta, Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen Supermodels and style icons that include Linda Evangelista, Catherine Deneuve, Isabella Blow, Naomi Campbell, Natalia Vodianova, Erin O'Connor, Kate Moss, Anna Piaggi, Anna Wintour, Shalom Harlow and Björk Celebrity front row faces that include Gwyneth Paltrow, Grace Jones, George Michael, Kate Winslet, Sean Combs, Liz Hurley, Tilda Swinton, Paris Hilton, Bernadette Peters, Nick Cave, Ivana Trump, Roman Polanski and RuPaul
Pop art created a fresh new outlook using everyday objects and design conflating high and low culture into a bright bold aesthetic. Fueled by the prestigious art schools in London specifically the Royal College of Art, the Pop artists of the late 1950s and early 1960s found their voice. A young, eager, and talented textile student, Zandra Rhodes, took inspiration from the Pop movement encircling her at the Royal College of Art and the energy and personalities that put London on the fashion map.
Zandra Rhodes was one of the most pioneering and influential textile designers of the late 1960s and 1970s who took her remarkable pop art inspired fabrics and revolutionised the fashion world. This book highlights Rhodes's early textile designs from her years at the Royal College of Art, to her first foray into the fashion world with designs for the legendary Swinging London duo Foale and Tuffin, to the launch of her eponymous collection as well as special commissions for Jacqmar, &Vice Versa, and Sekers Pty Australia. The book features stunning photography of never seen before textiles, drawings, and archival images combined with fashion photography by Clive Arrowsmith, Guy Bourdin, Henry Clarke, David Bailey, Helmut Newton, and Richard Traeger.
To any style conscious Londoner in the sixties just two places mattered: the King's Road and Carnaby Street. By the end of the decade the whole world came to see and be seen, to take part in the theatre that played out of the new boutiques and onto the street.
From the sleek modernist tailoring of 'Top Gear' and 'His Clothes' to the nostalgic dressing up box style of the World's End boutiques, at the heart of it all were the young designers whose conviction to make and sell clothes on their own terms generated an explosion of talent which lasted and evolved over twenty years, leaving an indelible mark in fashion history.
Boutique London follows the journey of the first risk-takers like Mary Quant and John Stephen, to the celebrity salons of Ossie Clark, 'Mr Fish' and 'Granny Takes a Trip', stopping along the way to include the weird and the wonderful, the glamorous and the bizarre.
With in-depth profiles of over thirty retailers and lavish illustrations, the clothes, interiors and characters of Boutique London are as diverse as they are colourful, vividly bringing to life a vanished London, which changed the way we shop forever.
A tribute to the life and work of the original Hollywood jeweller - Paul E. Flato (1900-1999) As well as images of the jewellery, sourced from auctions and private collections, this book includes photographs from the Flato family archives, important New York and Hollywood clients wearing Flato's jewels, film stills and studio portraits and the original drawings of the jewellery from private collectors as well as the Flato family archives
