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Whether it’s Beyoncé’s wild blue jacket, Rihanna in a Donald Duck dress, or outfit queen Lady Gaga in a jacket with sewn-on Kermit the Frog puppets, they have all worn his creations and made them famous.

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is a designer who knows how to dress women with courage and creativity. And for his somewhat unorthodox tastes, he has been nicknamed “King of the Unconventional.” After developing a collection for his mother’s fashion house in 1968, he started his own label in 1978. Since then, he has launched countless successful collections and struck up partnerships with the most unlikely people. Whether it’s robes for the Pope, costumes for the Woody Allen film Annie Hall, or clothes for TV series such as Charlie’s Angels and Sex and the City — for decades, de Castelbajac has been a style and fashion pioneer. Even better, he has always managed to fuse fashion with art, as evidenced by his partnerships with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Take a look behind the scenes at this fashion legend and learn about how this artist got his start and his ongoing history of success.

 - A very private look into the life and work of an exceptional designer
 - With commentary from Jean-Charles de Castelbajac himself, as well as many personal letters from his celebrity clients
 - A must-have for any true fashionista

JEAN-CHARLES DE CASTELBAJAC is an emblematic artist known for his polymorphic work. Since the beginning, his passion for art and design coupled with an enthusiastic and tireless character has urged him to collaborate with the best international industries and artists. His playful oeuvre and his approach to pop/rock culture has been seen around the world appealing to every generation in their own singular way.

She was a creature of contrasts: there was the Chanel of rococo mirrors and playful jewellery; but also the Chanel of the tailored suit, of the utmost restraint; of classicism à la française.
The jewellery that Chanel created presents one of the least-known aspects of her work: in complement to her ‘costume jewellery’, she invented jewellery that was unparalleled in luxury and refinement and unfettered in its imagination.

Using illustrations and documents, many of them previously unpublished, and based on archival research and interviews with Chanel’s colleagues and other witnesses of her life and career, this book presents her passion for fabulous jewels and improbable marvels.

Carrie Bradshaw adored them; Beyoncé sang about them; princesses wear them. From the first time a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes graced the red carpet, the brand has been favored by Hollywood stars, British royalty, and the world’s most fashionable women - as well as highly coveted by millions around the world. Founded in 1996 by Tamara Mellon, Jimmy Choo is known for its glamorous, creative, and whimsical designs that have inspired legions of fans worldwide.

Since launching the company, Mellon has been a creative and business visionary, turning out fashion and cultural icons regularly seen on loyal fans such as Reese Witherspoon, Madonna, Halle Berry, and countless other stars. Through red-carpet fashion photography and behind-the-scenes imagery from the company archives, this book gives an inside look at Mellon and the company’s creative inspirations, as well as showcasing the brilliant, colorful, and memorable creations that have already become fashion classics.

About the Author:

Jimmy Choo was founded by Tamara Mellon, OBE, in 1996, as a luxury footwear company. Today, Jimmy Choo encompasses a complete luxury brand with women’s shoes, handbags, small leather goods, belts, sunglasses, and eyewear. The brand’s products are available in the growing network of Jimmy Choo freestanding stores as well as in the most prestigious department stores, specialty stores, and duty-free stores worldwide.

A striking tribute to John Galliano's highly creative collections for his eponymous label (1996–2011), captured behind the scenes by American Vogue photographer Robert Fairer

Robert Fairer – American Vogue’s exclusive backstage photographer for over a decade – opens up his archive to unveil stunning photographs that were, until now, one of fashion’s best-kept secrets.

Presenting John Galliano’s creations for his eponymous label (1996–2011), John Galliano: Unseen celebrates the visionary and exquisitely multi-layered collections that acted as a showcase for the designer’s romantic, theatrical, radical ideas, granting rare behind-the-scenes access to a highly charged world of fantasy, collaboration and beauty.

Now creative director of Maison Margiela, John Galliano started his career in London in the late 1980s, straight after graduating from Central Saint Martins. After being appointed head designer of Christian Dior in 1996, Galliano continued to create two collections a year for his namesake brand. They acted in many ways as a laboratory of ideas, allowing him to let his imagination run wild, free from both the commercial pressures associated with a house as iconic and as global as Dior and the influence of the hallowed house’s iconic pieces – a pure expression of his personal design style.

Opening with an essay on the designer’s work, John Galliano: Unseen unfolds chronologically. Thirty collections are included, each introduced by a short text by Claire Wilcox, revisiting the designer’s most iconic creations and revealing previously unseen behind-the-scenes moments that capture models, hairdressers, stylists, makeup artists and John Galliano himself at their most creative. Robert Fairer’s stunning and high-energy photographs capture the glamour and frenzy that defined Galliano’s shows. A treasure-trove of inspiration, they make this publication a must-have reference for fashion and photography lovers alike.

About the Author:

British photographer Robert Fairer worked exclusively for American Vogue behind the scenes for over a decade. Beginning his career at British Elle in the mid 1990s, then Harpers Bazaar USA and finally at American Vogue, he covered the fashion zeitgeist of supermodel, designer and fashion excess from 1993-2011.His backstage archive has been published in three monographs, Alexander McQueen Unseen, John Galliano Unseen, and Marc Jacobs Unseen by Thames & Hudson, Yale University Press, Schirmer Mosel and Abrams. Robert’s work is published in The New York Times, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, i-D Magazine, and Visionaire, as well as fashion, portrait and lifestyle books, and anthologies. Robert continues to document the fashionable elite and collaborate with his editors and clients in uncharted fashion domains.

Years after her discovery at age fourteen at New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport and her quick ascent to the top of the supermodeling world and choice luxury-brand figurehead, Kate Moss represents an unusual success story: that of a middle-class teenager who became one of the best-paid models in the world with no apparent effort. Hers is a story of endless reinvention: more than twenty years later, despite tabloid scandals, drug use, rehab, and tumultuous high-profile romances, Kate Moss appears before us as a fresh creation each time, an ideal subject able to adapt to any circumstance, recast herself ceaselessly through self-staging and self-narration, and make the world fall in love with her over and over again.

In Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon, Christian Salmon’s insightful text, accompanied by more than sixty gorgeous images, explores this phenomenon - the story of an icon, a muse, a legend, an enigma - and how our culture has created the collective Kate Moss myth.

An extraordinary collectible, Kenzo creatively presents forty years of the Paris-based fashion house, founded by Japanese designer Kenzo Takada and now in a resurgence under artistic director Antonio Marras.

Established in 1970 by Kenzo Takada, who had arrived in Paris from Japan in 1965, Kenzo is one of the great French houses that transformed global fashion in the latter half of the twentieth century. Now under the artistic directorship of Antonio Marras, KENZO has again achieved critical and popular acclaim. Marras draws from the rich vein of Kenzo tradition as it engages the spirit of the new century. Armed with an unmatched vocabulary in prints and textiles, Marras mines both East and West, the present and the past, to create a collection that evokes, reveres, and reinvents the intentions of its founder.

The highlights of Takada’s tenure until his retirement in 1999 are also documented here. The first monograph on KENZO, this lavish volume comes in a real fabric cover, available in three different patterns, and with a pop-up that evokes the romantic textiles, envelopes, and paper craft for which the house’s fashion collection invitations are known.  Additional special features include three double-sided double gatefolds, folding out to the equivalent of eight pages, and three accordian gatefolds, folding out to five pages.  This book is truly an art object in and of itself.

About the Author

Antonio Marras was appointed designer of Kenzo’s women’s ready-to-wear collection in 2003, and in 2008 assumed artistic directorship of the entire brand. Bartabas is a renowned equestrian and performer who currently directs the Academy of Equestrian Arts at Versailles. Catherine Ormen is a curator and has written several books on fashion. Olivier Saillard is a curator at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris and writes on fashion. Bradley Quinn is an author and journalist with expertise in fashion, textiles, and design. Francesco Bonami is a curator, writer, and critic.

As a long-waited new volume in the best selling “The Kimono and the Colors of Japan” serial books, this fifth volume serves as an encyclopedia of motifs on kimonos. Not only motifs on kimonos and sashes but also those on various kimono ornaments are presented accompanied by the name of the motifs and some cultural backgrounds and descriptions of motifs. This is a “must” book for kimono fans,

In Know Your Style, style maven Alyson Walsh offers simple style formulae and playful advice to ensure that no matter what you’re wearing, you always look perfectly put together. Chapters cover workwear, weekend wear, layering, tailoring and special events, so you’re prepared for any fashion occasion. Interviews with iconic, creative women talk the reader through their favourite outfits in detail and give tips on honing your personal style. Learn how to wear glasses with hats or earrings, how to wear pattern and colour, and formulate your own silhouette that you feel comfortable in.

Creatively covering a range of outfits, trends, style icons and designs, Know Your Style will offer original ways to wear clothes and fresh styling ideas for women of all ages. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this is a stylish guide that celebrates women of all ages.

About the Author:

Alyson Walsh believes that you don’t have to have youth to have style. As former fashion editor for Good Housekeeping magazine and regular feature writer and columnist for the Financial Times, How to Spend It website, and her very own style blog That s Not My Age, Alyson has excellent fashion credentials. That’s Not My Age, in particular, has developed a loyal group of followers, all hungry for Alyson’s fashion advice and insider knowledge.

Kylie/Fashion is the official book celebrating twenty-five years since Kylie burst onto the music scene with ‘Locomotion’ and ‘I Should Be So Lucky’.

From the very beginning, the fashion she has worn has been key to Kylie’s persona and performances. Her status as style icon is unassailable. This dazzling book celebrates her numerous and groundbreaking collaborations with the world’s great fashion designers.

Produced by Kylie, and drawing on her personal archives, it showcases Kylie at all her key fashion moments, whether as ingénue in gold hot pants for ‘Light Years’, geisha/manga super-heroine in her ‘X’ era, or Grecian winged messenger for ‘Aphrodite’.

Curated by William Baker, Kylie’s acclaimed creative director, and introduced by Jean Paul Gaultier, the book also features specially written texts by some of the most important designers and stylists Kylie has worked with throughout her career, including Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, Christian Louboutin, Julien Macdonald, Stella McCartney, Laudomia Pucci, make-up artist Kabuki and photographer Stéphane Sednaoui. Kylie herself supplies additional commentary and an afterword.

Packed with iconic images as well as the very best rare and unseen archival photography, video stills, fashion sketches and ephemera, Kylie/Fashion is a collector’s item for fashionistas and fans worldwide, and a tribute to one of the most inspirational style icons of our time.

With worldwide record sales of around 70 million, a Grammy, a Brit and numerous other awards and honours, Kylie Minogue is one of the world’s most successful recording artists.

Au moment où la mode est devenue un art, il faut qu’une gazette de la mode soit elle-même un journal d’art. Telle sera "La Gazette du Bon Ton". Les artistes les plus exquis composeront pour elle leurs pages les plus délicieuses, les Chéruit, Dœuillet, Doucet, Paquin, Poiret, Redfern, Worth – ces inventeurs de chefs-d’œuvre qui ont fait la mode française, l’admiration et l’envie de l’univers – lui réserveront la primeur de leurs créations.

“Ainsi, on y trouvera, d’une part, les derniers modèles sortis des ateliers de la rue de la Paix, et d’autre part dans les aquarelles des peintures cet esprit de la mode, cette interprétation charmante et hardie qui leur appartient. Les artistes sont aujourd’hui pour une part les inventeurs de la mode : que ne doit-elle pas à un Iribe, qui introduit la simplicité des lignes et le goût oriental, à un Drian, à un Bakst, à un portraitiste épris de la souplesse et du raffinement des étoffes comme Antonio de la Gandara?

On trouvera donc dans chaque numéro de "La Gazette du Bon Ton", à côté de sept planches hors texte qui sont des modèles créés par les couturiers, trois planches qui sont des modèles inventés par les artistes. Et cette revue sera en même temps une œuvre d’art, on a voulu que tout y plût aux yeux, papier, format, caractères, textes, illustrations, les modèles de couturiers ne seront pas de simples reproductions, ce seront de véritables portraits de robes, peints et dessinés par de subtils artistes de notre temps...”

When it comes to dress, less can most definitely be more. In this striking new book, journalist Harriet Walker surveys one of the most wide-reaching movements in fashion. Minimalism has its roots in the early twentieth century, when women’s clothes became pared down and practical after centuries of complex construction. Walker reviews the work of designers who, over the decades, have adopted minimalist principles in their work, from Coco Chanel, who liberated women from Edwardian formal dress, to Donna Karan and Jil Sander, whose workwear offered women a feminine but credible alternative to power dressing; and from the avant-garde style of Japanese masters Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto to contemporary interpretations by Gareth Pugh, Roland Mouret, COS and Zara. With 250 colour illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs, Less is More is the engaging story of an abiding aesthetic that has subtly shaped modern fashion.

- The definitive guide to this influential fashion movement, from its origin in the early twentieth century to its current revival by cutting-edge designers and on the high street
- Includes the work of Chanel, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Armani, Prada, Jil Sander, Helmut Lang, Hussein Chalayan and many more
- Comprehensively illustrated with archival shots, original sketches, catwalk imagery and specially commissioned photography

Global fashion designer Malene Birger expands the focus of her design empire from exquisite clothing to equally enticing living spaces. This stunning photo exposé displays her talent for transforming homes into inspirational works of art. Ms Birger’s interior designs combine diverse international elements with the utmost sophistication. Striking silhouettes and clever contrasts appear in bold patterns and beautiful objects of desire, along with an intriguing intermingling of accents. It’s all part of her distinctive approach to style. An impressive composition reflecting her sublime sense of aesthetics and obsession with perfection. The result? An array of delicious dwellings for either high-end entertaining or curling up with a good book.

Known for a style that’s exclusive and accessible, Ms Birger’s designs resonate with anyone who appreciates a contemporary take on classics, high quality and a hint of the unexpected. A favourite of international fashion editors, her designs are sold in over 950 venues worldwide. Ms Birger divides her time between Spain and Scandinavia

- A distinctive sourcebook for living well with inspirational ideas for a memorable interior design
- This stunning volume embodies the knack of internationally well-known fashion designer Malene Birger for transforming homes into fascinating works of art