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Inspirational and informative, this book focuses on the British designers who, since 2000, have made their influence resonate globally: designers such as Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano, Julien Macdonald, Giles Deacon, Matthew Williamson and Paul Smith. The chapter on each designer defines visually how Britishness informs their work, showing final collections, process work and studio space. Text in the form of questions and answers or running text illustrates each designer’s British influence and distinct style.

Whenever one watches the Us Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on TV, one cannot but notice her extravagant jewellery. Few people realise, however, that the restrained beauty of this jewellery is often invested with an unmistakable message: After the Iraqi press portrayed her as a she met with Iraqi officials. During the difficult Middle East peace talks, a dove of peace adorned her shoulder and watched over the proceedings. Mrs Albright employs her diplomacy, a weapon barred to men. 61 artists from 16 countries responded to the challenge suggested by Helen Drutt from Philadelphia, to create highly individual brooches themed with Albright's strategic use of adornment. The results are a glittering show of jewellery covering a wide spectrum of shapes, materials and meaning. Each artist interpreted the challenge in a different way. While some boldly emphasized thier political meassage, others choose a more oblique presentation.

On one side, Dita Von Teese shares the beauty of the burlesque world, with bubblegum dreams and show tunes to strip to. Flip over for fantasies in fetish with dramatic costumes and the allure of submission.

Burlesque and the Art of the Teese

"I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute."

I'm a good dancer and a nice girl, but I'm a great showgirl. I sell, in a word, magic. Burlesque is a world of illusion and dreams and of course, the striptease. Whether I am bathing in my martini glass, riding my sparkling carousel horse, or emerging from my giant gold powder compact, I live out my most glamorous fantasies by bringing nostalgic imagery to life.

Let me show you my world of gorgeous pin-ups, tantalizing stripteases, and femmes fatales. I'll give you a glimpse into my life, but a lady never reveals all.

Fetish and the Art of the Teese

You may have come for the fetish. Or you may just be sneaking a peek at this mysterious and peculiar other side. No matter what you've come for, there is something for you to indulge in.

My world of fetish may not be the one that you would expect. As a burlesque performer, I entice my audience, bringing their minds closer and closer to sex and then -- as good temptress must -- snatching it away. As a fetish star, I apply the same techniques. . . .

An opera-length kid leather glove, a strict wasp waist, an impossibly high patent leather heel, a severely painted red lip. . . . Come with me into my world of decadent fetishism.

One of today’s most trendy luxury brands behind cult fragrances and home goods celebrates over 15 years of hit collaborations and innovative projects.

Founded in 2006 in Stockholm by Ben Gorham — a former basketball player turned self-taught perfumer — Byredo is one of today’s most popular global brands known for its fragrances, makeup, home goods, and accessories. With the desire to translate memories and emotions into unique experiences, Byredo is an innovative force in modern luxury.

This volume explores the brand’s heritage and identity through a dictionary format, with such entries as Art, Eyes, Paris, and Water. Readers discover iconic candles and fragrances, hit collaborations, and boundary-breaking campaigns. Photography by some of fashion’s luminaries — including Craig McDean, Paolo Roversi, and Inez & Vinoodh — illustrates Byredo’s singular universe. Candles take inspiration from Stockholm’s cold winter nights. Partnerships with the late fashion designer Virgil Abloh, a close collaborator who imagined candles, T-shirts, and bags; rapper Travis Scott, who developed a candle and perfume; and jewelry designer Charlotte Chesnais, who designed a line of unisex gems, demonstrate creative breadth. Chapters on diverse product offerings, from hiking boots to Italian-made leather goods, enliven the pages. Crafted with the same attention to detail and inventiveness as the brand’s products, this fascinating publication comes alive with 26 die-cuts interspersed throughout its 336 pages and a supple latex paper cover.

About the Author:

Ben Gorham was born in Sweden in 1977 and grew up in Stockholm, Toronto, and New York. He founded Byredo in 2006, setting up offices in Paris and Stockholm. He lives in Stockholm with his wife and children. Grace Johnston is a UK-born, Paris-based writer, editor, and curator.

What is "camp"? Drawing from Susan Sontag’s seminal essay, this striking volume explores its meaning and its expression in fashion from its origins to today

Although an elusive concept, “camp” can be found in most forms of artistic expression, revealing itself through an aesthetic of deliberate stylization. Fashion is one of the most overt and enduring conduits of the camp aesthetic. As a site for the playful dynamics between high art and popular culture, fashion both embraces and expresses such camp modes of enactment as irony, humor, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and exaggeration.

Drawing from Susan Sontag’s seminal essay “Notes on Camp,” the book explores how fashion designers have used their métier as a vehicle to engage with the camp aesthetic in compelling, humorous, and sometimes incongruous ways. As a sartorial manifestation of the camp sensibility, this thought-provoking publication contributes new theoretical and conceptual insights into the camp canon through texts and images. Stunning new photography by Johnny Dufort highlights works by such fashion designers as Virgil Abloh, Thom Browne, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Alessandro Michele, Franco Moschino, Miuccia Prada, Richard Quinn, Yves Saint Laurent, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jeremy Scott, Anna Sui, Gianni Versace, and Vivienne Westwood.

About the Author:

Andrew Bolton is the Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

"Carine, and her vision of French Vogue, embodies all that the world likes to think of as Parisian style: a sense of chic that's impeccable and sometimes idiosyncratic and which forever lives on a moonlit street as seen through the lens of Helmut Newton." - Anna Wintour Karl Lagerfeld once said that if you close your eyes and imagine the ideal French woman, it would be Carine Roitfeld. She is a fashion visionary and a muse. Since the start of her career in the early 1990s, through her collaborations with the legendary photographer Mario Testino, Roitfeld has been credited with launching Tom Ford's career at Gucci, as well as turning French Vogue into one of the industry's most worshipped magazines.

This elegant volume is a visual history of Roitfeld's fearless career. A daring instigator, she is known for pushing the limits with her subversive styling ideas. Featuring a selection of 250 magazine tear sheets and covers from pivotal editorial shoots and advertising campaigns, as well as intimate visual ephemera, this book gives an inside view into Roitfeld's creative thought process and sensibility. A must-have for those interested in cutting-edge fashion and femininity, this book will empower women to follow Roitfeld's lead and take risks with their personal style.

About the Author:

Carine Roitfeld is a legendary stylist and former editor in chief of French Vogue. Olivier Zahm is an art critic, renowned curator, and art director. He is the editor in chief of Purple Fashion. Alex Wiederin at Buero New York is creative director of Vogue Hommes International. His work in fashion, photography, and graphic design is highly acclaimed.

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Chris Moore is the undisputed king of catwalk photography. His six-decade career includes images of all the iconic catwalk shows because he was at them all. This is the ultimate and only edit of Moore’s work throughout his career and covering the changing face of the catwalk.

Covering each of the decades images are accompanied with essays by award-winning fashion critic Alexander Fury, based on extensive interviews with Moore, exploring Moore’s career along with key catwalk moments.

From John Galliano’s graduation to Alexander McQueen’s final show, supermodels to showstoppers, Alaïa to Vivienne Westwood and more, Catwalking presents the definitive catwalk highlights captured by the man who has seen and shot it all.

About the authors:

Alexander Fury is an award-winning fashion journalist and critic. He was the first menswear critic at US Vogue.com, chief fashion correspondent at T: The New York Times Style Magazine and fashion editor at the Independent newspapers.

Chris Moore has been at the forefront of fashion photography since the 1950s and founded Catwalking.com, the first online archive of catwalk photography. Over his career he has worked with every leading national newspaper in the UK and is a long-standing contributor to The Sunday Times, the Financial Times and Grazia magazine, and was an important contributor to the International Herald Tribune. He received lifetime achievement awards for his contribution to fashion from the British Fashion Council and Graduate Fashion Week, and received honorary doctorate awards from the University of the Arts London and Northumbria University.

Стиль Шанель - непреходящая ценность, эталон высокой моды. Ее имя - синоним сдержанной элегантности и утонченного шика. Коко Шанель сыграла, пожалуй, главную роль в моде XX века. Карл Лагерфельд, нынешний ведущий дизайнер Дома Chanel, однажды сказал о Коко: "Она пережила всех". И оказался прав: творения Шанель, давным-давно ставшие классикой, до сих пор служат источником вдохновения для современных молодых дизайнеров. Жером Готье, собрав уникальные работы самых ярких фотографов минувшей эпохи и наших современников, показал эволюцию этого знаменитого стиля и его ключевых элементов - от маленького черного платья до знаменитого костюма Шанель.

Посмотреть англоязычное издание книги Chanel. Энциклопедия стиля - Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style

For almost a century, the name of Chanel has been inextricably linked to elegance, modernity and fashion innovation. It was Chanel who single-handedly made striped jerseys and loose trousers chic, costume jewellery desirable, the little black dress the height of sophistication, and tweed suits a staple of every stylish woman's wardrobe.

In this beautifully illustrated book, dress historian Amy de la Haye celebrates Gabrielle Coco Chanel as the couturier who changed the way stylish women everywhere dress, then and now. She examines the creative output of this most famous of fashion houses, from its infancy in the 1920s to the present day as it continues to prosper under the direction of Karl Lagerfeld.

About the Author:

Amy de la Haye is a curator, writer, dress historian and fashion critic.

Charles James, often considered to be America’s first couturier, was renowned in the 1940s and 1950s as a master at sculpting fabric for the female form and creating fashions that defined mid-century glamour. Although James had no formal training as a dressmaker, he created strikingly original and complex designs, including intricate ball gowns worn by members of high society in New York and Europe. This lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive study of James’ life and work, highlighting his virtuosity and inventiveness as well as his influence on subsequent fashion designers.

Featuring exciting new photography of the spectacular evening dresses James produced between 1947 and 1955, this publication includes enlightening details of these intricate creations alongside vintage photographs and rarely seen archival items, such as patterns, muslins, dress forms, and sketches. A detailed and illustrated chronology of James’ life describes his magnetic personality, his unorthodox design processes, his colorful supporters — such as Salvador Dalí, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, and Cristobal Balenciaga — and profiles of a number of his famous clients, such as Gypsy Rose Lee. With flair and style echoing that of its subject, Charles James brings to life one of the most fascinating and creative figures in American fashion.

Цей гарний том описує піднесення модного дому Chloé, горнила творчості для деяких найвидатніших дизайнерів моди.

Модному бренду Chloé, можливо, шістдесят років, але він все ще випромінює молодіжну елегантність та жіночність. Як перший паризький модний дім високого класу, який продавав виключно одяг готового до використання, Chloé з того часу переосмислив свій образ для сучасної жінки завдяки привабливим кольорам, якісним матеріалам та серії обов'язкових сумок It.

Chloé розпочав свою діяльність у 1952 році, коли Габі Агіон винайшла революційну ідею розкоші prêt-à-porter, взявши майстерність високої моди та зробивши її доступною для ширшої аудиторії. Її зосередженість на красивому, але водночас зручному для носіння, надала лінії популярності серед шикарних молодих жінок. Народившись у Єгипті в 1921 році та переїхавши до Парижа, коли їй було за двадцять, Агіон одягала одних із наймодніших та найвпливовіших жінок свого часу, включаючи Джекі О, Грейс Келлі та Бріджит Бардо. Її бачення завжди зберігалося протягом усієї тривалої кар'єри компанії.

Жива та свіжа енергія компанії підтримувалася протягом десятиліть частково завдяки пошуку нових талантів, зокрема 28-річного дизайнера Карла Лагерфельда, який розпочав роботу в компанії в 1966 році.

Книга досліджує його кар'єру в Chloé, а також кар'єру Мартін Сітбон (у 1988 році), Стелли Маккартні, яка приєдналася до Chloé у віці 26 років (у 1997 році), та Фібі Філо, яка відповідала за масштабне переосмислення Chloé з 2001 по 2006 рік, де їй приписують чуттєвий та особистий штрих до лінії. Наразі її очолює Клер Вейт Келлер, яка раніше відродила лінію одягу Pringle of Scotland. Chloé, коротко кажучи, — це сучасна жінка — вишукана та переосмислена.

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Погортати книгу Chloe: Attitudes

Christian Dior pulled off a coup that would revolutionise the international fashion scene when he showed his first collection on 12 February 1947. Thus was the ‘New Look’ born, which made his Paris fashion house world-famous overnight. Today Dior’s early collections symbolise the rebirth of Paris haute couture after 1945. Within only a few years Christian Dior rose to rule over a flourishing luxury empire and was celebrated throughout the world as the monarch of fashion until his sudden death in October 1957. His twenty-two haute couture collections – including the celebrated A and H, as well as Tulip lines – comprising some three thousand models, represent a design legacy that more than any other wrote 20th-century fashion history.

The present publication marks two anniversaries: it is published sixty years after the first Christian Dior collection was launched and fifty years after his untimely death. For the first time, the links between Christian Dior and Germany in the founder years of Maison Dior (1947–1957) are focused on. Twenty original, for the most part, unpublished Dior models from German museums are shown, including the fabulous Marlene Dietrich Collection in Berlin. The twenty-four Dior fashion jewellery sets made in Pforzheim presented here are astonishingly fine and richly diverse. This sumptuously illustrated publication contains an extensive annotated catalogue as well as essays by five distinguished specialists in fashion and jewellery on the fashion jewellery made under a licensing agreement in Germany for Dior, the early Dior fashion shows in Germany, Christian Dior’s sole postwar visit to Germany as well as the reception of Dior fashions as echoed in German-language journals and magazines of that time.

Мабуть, найвідоміший модельєр ХХ століття, Крістіан Діор створив жіночий одяг, який хотіли, носили та наслідували жінки в усьому світі.

Цей щедро ілюстрований том досліджує блиск драматичних творінь Діора, які відродили всю паризьку індустрію високої моди після руйнувань Другої світової війни.

У цьому томі представлена ​​колекція від кутюр Королівського музею Онтаріо, яка супроводжується ескізами та матеріалами зі спадщини Крістіана Діора, а також фотографіями колекції, зробленими всесвітньо відомим фотографом Dior Лазізом Хамані. Окрім демонстрації найяскравіших дизайнів Dior, від денного до вечірнього вбрання, у книзі досліджується, як легковажний і рельєфний «New Look» змітає похмурість і серйозність силуету часів війни, а також пояснюється інноваційна техніка пошиття одягу, що стоїть за ключовими підписами Dior.

Крістіан Діор — обов’язкова книжка для тих, хто цікавиться модою, мистецтвом, культурою та історією.

Lacroix is one of the most inventive and admired fashion designers in the world. He is also incredibly well-versed in fashion history, and he brings that expertise to bear in this delightful imaginary museum of historic and contemporary fashion.

‘I chose those that were most inspiring, those that best told the story of fashion that I would have wanted to tell if I were the museum curator that I intended to be when I was a student.’ – Christian Lacroix

Each featured piece – whether from costume collections of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs or the House of Lacroix – is distinguished by its cut, its detail, its colour and its texture,
and the pieces are juxtaposed and photographed in a way that emphasizes their relationships across the centuries.

The world of vintage clothing is a fun, exciting, rewarding area of collecting. This is particularly true of the fashions of 1940s, 50s, and 60s. Unlike earlier eras, these creations can be worn and enjoyed everyday. And there is something for every taste...from the formal to the whimsical and from the chic tailored suits of the 1940s to the free-style fashions of the late-1960s