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‘You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.’ – Christian Dior

There is an indefinable magic, mystique and fascination about high-heeled shoes that passes all understanding or logic. How can you explain that the simple act of pointing your toes and gently slipping them into a pair of towering heels can be such a powerful experience physically, psychologically and emotionally? As British Vogue has charted over the last hundred years, by stepping into a pair of heels, a woman’s personality is instantly transformed. 

Divided into the categories of Fancy Footwork, Enduring Classics, Step Up and Rainbow Heels, British Vogue‘s archive of fashion photos has been plundered to showcase the most beautiful, memorable, rule-breaking and trend-setting heels to be photographed in its 100-year history.

Published simultaneously with Vogue Essentials: Lingerie. This irresistible new series from Conran Octopus and British Vogue explores the key pieces in a stylish woman’s wardrobe and features photographs from Vogue‘s peerless archive of more than a million pictures.

‘Rolfe explores the fascinating link between heels and both physical and psychological power. Divided into four shoe categories and accompanied by archival images from the pages of British Vogue, the book provides charming documentation of what is arguably fashion’s most powerful accessory – from sleek Chanel sling-backs to brazen creations by Balenciaga.’ – British Vogue 

Illustrated with fabulous images from Vogue‘s archive, Vogue: The Jewellery is the ultimate book for fashion and jewellery lovers.

From couture to costume jewellery, the brilliant pieces featured on the pages of British Vogue for more than a century have encapsulated the fashion zeitgeist of each new age for which they were created. Adorning princesses and rock chicks alike, the jewels shown in Vogue: The Jewellery reveal a dazzling array of styles and moods – from fairytale romance to Jazz-age glamour, sculptural modernism to timeless elegance. On every page sumptuous jewellery is the star of the show, nourishing dreams in us all.

Carol Woolton has curated a collection of more than 300 fabulous images within five thematic chapters: Show-stoppers, Rock Chick, Minimalist, Exotic and Classic. From diamond-encrusted tiaras and intricate jet chokers to sculptural silver cuffs and simple strings of pearls, the book provides an evocative celebration of a century of jewellery, while showcasing British Vogue’s best photographers including Norman Parkinson, David Bailey, Arthur Elgort, Corinne Day, Cecil Beaton and Tim Walker.

In Vogue: The Shoe, Harriet Quick has curated more than 300 fabulous images from a century of British Vogue, featuring remarkable styles that range from the humble clog to exquisite hand-embroidered haute couture stilettoes via fetishistic cuissardes and outrageous statement heels.

Contains some of the best fashion photography available, including shots from Vogue's peerless archive of fashion images by the likes of Hoyningen-Huene, Irving Penn, Corinne Day, Norman Parkinson, Arthur Elgort and Nick Knight.

Reissued with a luxurious real cloth cover, this is essential reading for fashionistas everywhere.

Includes a foreword written by Alexandra Shulman, former editor-in-chief of British Vogue.

'Whatever the style, shoes have a message to be heard, and nowhere is it clearer than in this collection of some of the best fashion images of their age.' - Alexandra Shulman

About the Author:

Harriet Quick is an award-winning journalist, editor and author. She is a Contributing Editor to British Vogue and previously Fashion Features Director (2000-12) and Editor of Frank magazine (1998-2000) Harriet has worked in the fashion and design arena for 20 years. She won the prestigious Vogue Writing Talent Award and the Guardian/Jackie Moore Award and now contributes to a wealth of global titles including Vogue in the UK and China, Modern Weekly, WSJ Magazine, Love, Modern Weekly, the Financial Times and Wallpaper*. Harriet is the author of Catwalking: A History of the Fashion Model (Hamlyn 1996), Richard Prince (Sadie Coles Gallery 2003) and contributed to Sample (Phaidon 2006) and London Uprising (Phaidon 2017). Harriet works as editor-at-large for Lane Crawford and copywriter for brands including Chanel, Holland & Holland, Ochre and Manhattan Loft Corporation.

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Anyone can learn to knit — and who better to learn from than the authorities at Vogue Knitting?

With this ultimate guide, you will learn all about yarn, needles, patterns, and, of course, those two basic stitches: knitting and purling. Follow along with beautiful step-by-step photographs that teach how to cast on, bind off, and knit up a collection of stitches ranging from basic stockinette to basket weave, bobbles, cables, and more. Links to video instruction are included for a complete how-to experience. Aspiring knitters will be able to put their new skills to use with more than 20 accessible, stylish patterns taken from the pages of Vogue Knitting magazine, which include beginner staples like scarves and hats, as well as beginner friendly shawls and sweaters.

Must-have info on getting into the knitting groove abounds throughout for a complete learning experience, creating a guide that is truly the ultimate for beginners.

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Пролистать книгу Vogue® Knitting:  The Learn to Knit Book: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners

First published in 1989 to meet the needs of the growing fashion knitting community, Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book instantly became a trusted and beloved resource for knitters. The second edition, released in 2002, only further cemented its place as the most trusted knitting resource. To date, more than 1 million copies across both editions have been sold. The past fifteen years have seen many exciting advances in knitting, and it is once again time for an update. The library of cast-ons, increases, decreases, and bind-offs has been expanded with new essentials. Brioche, entrelac, double knitting, and mosaic knitting — former trends that are now favorite techniques — each have an in-depth section. The design and construction chapters, formerly only covering sweaters, now also includes dozens of options for hats, mittens, socks, gloves, and more than 25 shawl shapes.

New comprehensive chapters on lace and cabling incorporate everything a knitter could possibly need to know when increasing, decreasing, reading charts, working borders, and much more. Information about knitters' tools, correcting errors, finishing, embellishing, and garment care have all been expanded to provide a masterly understanding of every stage of knitting.

With updated, revised, and new material throughout, more than 70 additional pages, and more than 1,600 photos and hand-drawn step-by-step illustrations, Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book, Completely Revised and Updated is surprisingly easy to navigate with thorough indexing and footnote cross-referencing. From beginners needing to learn the very basics to seasoned knitters needing a refresher on a complex technique, this is a guide that every knitter will cherish for years and years to come.

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Пролистать книгу Vogue® Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book: Revised and Updated

Our largest and most comprehensive stitch dictionary yet, Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Stitch Dictionary combines the best of the Vogue Knitting Stitchionary series with 100 new patterns. With more than 800 stitch patterns pulled from designs that have appeared in Vogue Knitting magazine, this volume includes: knit and purl designs, mesmerizing cables, stunning lace patterns, traditional and modern edgings, vibrant colorwork, and a plethora of unique stitches, textures, and combinations. With patterns that span all skill levels, this collection is a diverse and beautiful source of inspiration for every knitter.

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Пролистать книгу Vogue® Knitting: The Ultimate Stitch Dictionary

Enchanting watercolors from the art of design

In the rank of great Danish designers, Finn Juhl (1912–1989) is mentioned in the same breath with Hans J. Wegner and Arne Jacobsen. He became particularly well known for his sculptural, seemingly organic tables, chairs, and sofas. However, the complex interior designs he developed in the forties and fifties were also enormously successful. These include the Danish Embassy in Washington, D. C., or the conference room of the United Nations Trusteeship Council in New York. Only the most adept would be aware of the fact that Finn Juhl was also a talented watercolor painter. For the first time, this publication allows readers to take a unique look at the designer’s working method. More than 125 subtle works on paper communicate the ingenuity of their creator: Finn Juhl’s furniture classics, living concepts, and interior designs can finally be experienced in all their complexity, as one can trace their development from the beginning onwards.

Заснований на телевізійному серіалі BBC, Джон Бергер Ways of Seeing – це унікальний погляд на те, як ми сприймаємо мистецтво, опублікований як частина серії Penguin on Design у Penguin Modern Classics.

«Побачити перед словами. Дитина дивиться і впізнає, перш ніж заговорити».

«Але є й інший сенс, у якому бачення стоїть перед словами. Саме бачення визначає наше місце в навколишньому світі; ми пояснюємо цей світ словами, але слово ніколи не може скасувати той факт, що ми ним оточені. Відношення між тим, що ми бачимо, і тим, що ми знаємо, ніколи не є встановленим».

Ways of Seeing Джона Бергера — одна з найбільш стимулюючих і впливових книг про мистецтво будь-якою мовою. Вперше опублікований у 1972 році, він був заснований на телевізійному серіалі BBC, про який критик Sunday Times прокоментував: «Це відкриває очі в кількох аспектах: концентрація на тому, як ми дивимося на картини. . . він майже напевно змінить ваш погляд на фотографії». Зараз він має.

Джон Бергер (нар. 1926) — мистецтвознавець, художник і прозаїк. Народився в Хакні, Лондон.
Його роман G. (1972) отримав премію пам’яті Джеймса Тейта Блека та Букерівську премію.

Якщо вам сподобалися Ways of Seeing, вам може сподобатися книга Сьюзен Зонтаг Про фотографію, яка також доступна в Penguin Modern Classics.

«Берґер має здатність пройти крізь містифікацію професійних мистецтвознавців... він визволитель образів: і як тільки ми дозволили картинам працювати на нас безпосередньо, ми знаходимося в набагато кращому становищі, щоб зробити значущу оцінку»
Пітер Фуллер, Arts Review

«Вплив серіалу та книги... був величезним... Це відкрило для загальної уваги сфери культурологічних досліджень, які зараз є звичним явищем»
Джефф Дайер у Ways of Telling

«Один із найвпливовіших інтелектуалів сучасності»
Спостерігач

Про автора:

Джон Бергер народився в Лондоні в 1926 році. Його відомі твори як художньої, так і наукової літератури включають основоположні Ways of Seeing і роман G., який отримав Букерівську премію в 1972 році. У 1962 році він покинув Британію назавжди, щоб жити в маленькому селі у французьких Альпах. Помер у 2017 році.

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Artist Joe Roberts has spent more than a decade honing a deeply unique and unapologetically hallucinogenic style of art. Through paintings, drawings and mixed-media works, Roberts navigates a world of cosmic imagery, pop cultural detritus, and shifting geometric forms, bringing to life both the creeping unease and the uncanny humor of the psychedelic experience. Collecting over 100 new and recent works along with an introduction by Hamilton Morris (Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia), We Ate the Acid is the latest product of Roberts’ visionary journeys and a testament to his expansive, singular imagination.

About the Author:

Joe Roberts is an artist and illustrator. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, he later studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. Known for his work with found objects, Roberts creates mixed media pieces, collages, and paintings that create an ever-changing surreal world. His much sought-after work has been shown in notable galleries including Slow Culture in Los Angeles and Marlborough Gallery in New York. We Ate the Acid is the second publication from Roberts. He currently lives and works in San Francisco.

Études is a fresh and a comprehensive look at a hot fashion-and-art at collective, documenting its evolution into an arbiter of contemporary cool.

Based in Paris and Brooklyn, Etudes is one of most innovative brands in fashion and street wear today. With a look dominated by bold graphics and a sleek, relaxed silhouette intended for both men and women, the brand's unique, transatlantic style has drawn a young, sophisticated following. Established in 2012 by Aurélien Arbet and Jérémie Egry, Études' star rose rapidly, making it on the official calendar of Paris Fashion Week less that two years after its founding. Occupying a role more in keeping with insurgent Japanese brands from Harajuku, Études is a fashion label, a creative agency and publishing house with a focus on art & photography. With a goal of becoming a total lifestyle label, the brand's approach is demanding, coherent, consistent and resolutely contemporary.
This book presents the wide array of fashion, art, and style that Études has facilitated since its founding. Filled with over 200 photographs and illustrations documenting work and collaborations with highly applauded artists and brands including Kara Walker, Ari Marcopoulus, RETROSUPERFUTURE, Devonte Hynes, Matthew Chambers, Mark Gonzales as well as a selection of interviews and essays commissioned specially for this book, Études is an engaging volume that highlights an ethic of collaboration that is one of the most fashion-forward of any contemporary fashion and street wear labels.

About the Author:

Ari Marcopoulos is an American artist whose photographs and films have been exhibited, collected, and published around the world. His photographs have been acquired by such institutions as SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art and have been featured in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Interview, Snowboarder, and Blind Spot. His books include Ari Marcopoulos: Not Yet. Gus Van Sant is an American director and screenwriter. Mark Gonzales is an American professional skateboarder and artist. Pedro Winter is a French DJ, music producer, and record label owner.

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Celebrating the centenary and legacy of Charley Harper, a master of mid-century American illustration.

Ladybugs, dogs, owls, otters: Charley Harper’s geometric illustrations are more than a source of delight. With a never-ending curiosity for the natural world, especially for wildlife and flora, Harper developed a unique style that influenced generations of artists and designers.

Wild Life celebrates the centenary and legacy of Charley Harper, a master of midcentury American illustration: a vast collection of works originally created as posters, magazine covers, murals, and more. Compiled by design writer Margaret Rhodes and the artist’s son, Brett Harper, this definitive monograph offers a glimpse into Harper’s creative universe and considers him anew in different contexts: as a student, a professional artist, a husband, an honorary naturalist, and a conservationist.

Telling the story of his life and of his masterpieces, Wild Life is essential for enthusiasts of the American master and for anyone interested in midcentury visual culture.

About the Authors:

Brett Harper who wrote the preface and is the co-editor of Wild Life -The Life and Work of Charley Harper is the artist’s son. He leads the Charley Harper Art Studio, which is dedicated to preserving and promoting the American illustrator’s work. Charley Harper's art is a beloved treasure who inspired an entire generation of artists and designers.

Margaret Rhodes is an independent writer and editor specializing in design. She previously worked in-house at New York Magazine, WIRED, and Fast Company.

African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work.

Before Off-White, before Hood By Air, before Supreme, there was WilliWear. Willi Smith created inclusive and liberating fashion: "I don't design clothes for the queen, but the people who wave at her as she goes by," he said. A rising star from the time he left Parsons, Smith went on to found WilliWear with Laurie Mallet in 1976 and became one of the most successful designers of his era by his untimely death in 1987. Smith broke boundaries with his streetwear, or "street couture," and trailblazed the collaborations between artists, performers, and designers commonplace today in projects with SITE Architects, Nam June Paik, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Spike Lee, Dan Friedman, Bill T. Jones, and Arnie Zane. Essays by leading figures from the worlds of fashion, art, architecture, and cultural studies paired with never before-seen images and ephemera make Willi Smith essential reading for the history of streetwear culture and the evolution of fashion from the 1970s to today.

About the Author:

Alexandra Cunningham Cameron is the curator of contemporary design and Hintz Secretarial Scholar at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York.

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Мріючи та розслабляючись, із привабливим дизайном Вільяма Морріса, ця чудова нова книга подарує вам багато годин задоволення та спокою. Надрукована на високоякісному папері, ця нова книга містить 45 потужних робіт Вільяма Морріса, які ви можете розфарбувати, пропонуючи припущення про те, як виглядав оригінал, а також ключову інформацію, таку як назва та дата. Морріс, мабуть, найвідоміший художник-ремісник у світі, і його сміливі та візуально виразні картини резонують і сьогодні. Ця книга перенесе вас у приємну подорож, де задоволення від створення приголомшливих творів мистецтва поєднується з повторним відкриттям радості розфарбовування. Ви можете використовувати найрізноманітніші ручки: від гелевих і олівців до пігментних і кольорових олівців, від кулькових і роликових до хайлайтерів, хоча краще уникати важких фломастерів. Кожна сторінка перфорована біля корінця книги, тож ви можете вирвати й оформити рамку чи просто розмістити своє чудове творіння на стінах свого дому, можливо, навіть надіслати його як подарунок своїм близьким. Оживіть Ink!

Про автора:

Дейзі Сіл — талановита, вдумлива письменниця книжок для подарунків, свят і загадок. Вона давно спостерігала за тісними зв’язками між навколишнім природним світом і нашими пошуками міцного духу людства. Попередні публікації: «Натхнення», «Роздуми», «Будь спокійний», «Дружба».

A powerful and inspired collection of essays and real-world advice on style, beauty, and motherhood from the popular blogger LaTonya Yvette

LaTonya Yvette, the blogger and stylist behind the eponymous site, is unapologetically candid about life’s trials, including motherhood, love, death, and racism. Her first book, Woman of Color, is part memoir, part lifestyle guide ― packed with moving essays, gorgeous original and archival photographs, and practical style and beauty advice. At the very heart, though, it’s about LaTonya’s experience growing up as a woman of color in Brooklyn.

Each beautifully designed chapter covers a different topic―the meaning behind her name, how vitiligo has shaped her definition of beauty, her childhood hairstyles, raising her children as a 20-something mom ― and ends with thoughtful advice and lifestyle takeaways like how to tie a headwrap or incorporate new, bold colors into your wardrobe. Woman of Color is real life, real style for women from all walks of life. In it, LaTonya has written a love letter to women, filling this book with vulnerable, imperfect truths from a black woman blogger, a voice not often seen on bookstore shelves.

This is the catalogue of the important exhibition dedicated to Wanda Miletti Ferragamo, which focuses on female empowerment in various domains from the 1960s onward.

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Women in Balance at the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence. The project arose as a tribute to Wanda Miletti Ferragamo, who guided the Salvatore Ferragamo company from 1960 until her death in 2018.

The volume aims to tell the story of the women who balanced their roles as mothers and wives with their work during the years of the Italian “economic miracle” and beyond. The story of Wanda Ferragamo’s life is accompanied by the voices of women from diverse fields who embodied their time and helped to shape it.

Focus is placed on women who have been pioneers in their fields (politics, literature, photography, cinema, art, music, business, science, and technology). This catalogue seeks to trigger reflections on gender relations in contemporary society and the balance needed to reconcile women’s private lives with their passions and professional aspirations.

About the Author:

Stefania Ricci studied art history at the University of Florence. She has been the director of Museo Salvatore Ferragamo since 1995 and of Fondazione Ferragamo since March 2013. Elvira Valleri has a degree in humanities and a PhD from the European University. Her research focuses on contemporary history and autobiography and biography from a gender perspective.