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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.

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,

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

Through the 1950s and the early 1960s, fashion photographer Lillian Bassman worked with fashion magazines and Madison Avenue Advertising agencies to create a potent vision of women's lingerie: brassieres and bodices; corsets and girdles; camisoles and chemises; nightgowns and pajamas. Using the era's supermodels, she perfectly visualised a feminine ideal and captured women's imaginations. Fifty years later these images have lost none of their allure and the enormous cultural impact of the TV show Mad Men has given them new currency.

About the Author

Lillian Bassman, is a prominent and respected figure in the world of fashion photographers. Her signature style, once described by legendary photographer Richard Avedon as making "visible that heartbreaking invisible place between the appearance and the disappearance of things" offers a sensuous and intimate vision of modern women.

A selection of images illustrating the amazing clothing collection of Jacoba de Jonge
Contains contributions from fashion curators and experts as well as accompanying an exhibition at the Fashion museum in Antwerp

Living Fashion by Leen Demeester, explains the influence of fashion on the daily life of middle class women in Western Europe between 1750 and 1950. The text focuses mainly on high fashion as women from the middle classes tried to copy these styles as well as they could. The powerful rise of the bourgeoisie in the 19th century provided them with new possibilities and created an accessiblity to a pastime which stimulated the purchase of fashion.

A landmark fashion photography monograph chronicling the most famous and sought-after brand in the world

Since the 1920s, the images of Louis Vuitton-both advertising and editorial-have drawn the world into its ethereal, luxurious identity and have changed the way we see fashion, travel, art, and culture. These captivating touchstones of fashion photography have served as a glamorous, romantic porthole to one of the world's most prestigious luxury brands.

Louis Vuitton Fashion Photography is an unprecedented visual history of the company, seen through its presence in photographs.

This exceptional album features over two hundred images by the most important modern and contemporary photographers, including David Bailey, Henry Clarke, Patrick Demarchelier, Karl Lagerfeld, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, David Sims, Bert Stern, Juergen Teller, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber.

This book features images from iconic Vuitton advertising campaigns from the '20s through to the present, with magazine editorials from publications including Vogue, L'Officiel, Numero, V, Harper's Bazaar, Interview, W, Egoiste, Love, and Pop.

This elegantly designed mix creates a unique and exciting expression of the brand and its interpretation by top stylists and fashion editors.

Chronicling the style, history, and exquisite fashion through lavish, evocative photography, this volume is an absolute essential for lovers of fashion, art, and photography.

Trains and steamships transformed transportation in the mid-19th century and opened the world to a new breed of traveller. Louis Vuitton understood the need for more practical luggage, and strove to create products that were adaptable to all situations - and the travel trunk was born.

Authors Pierre Léonforte and Éric Pujalet-Plaà curate 100 of the finest trunks the Louis Vuitton company has produced on commission, including boxes made for movie stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sharon Stone and couturiers from Jeanne Lanvin to Karl Lagerfeld, as well as cases designed for Ernest Hemingway, Leopold Stokowski, and Damien Hirst. Illustrated with 600 images taken from the Louis Vuitton archives and new photographs made especially for this book, this is the definitive history of personalized objects of both practicality and luxury.

About the authors:

Patrick-Louis Vuitton directs custom workshop production and handles public relations for the company founded by his great-grandfather.

Pierre Léonforte has been contributing to Maison Louis Vuitton for many years and is currently the editor in chief of the City Guide Vuitton series.

Éric Pujalet-Plaà is assistant curator of fashion and textiles at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Louise Bourgeois, who has produced art since the 1930s, began in the 1990s to use her clothes and the clothes of her loved ones as components in her sculptures and drawings. It is as much a reincarnation of her past and her childhood as a confirmation of her relationship with memory. Her visual approach to fabrics transforms decorative accessories into emotional and personal references which, especially in her Cells and later in her drawings, create representations of a tormented and at the same time powerful womanhood. Further development of the artist’s work began in 2002: exploiting the iridescent colours and formal structural properties of pieces of her clothing, she created “The Fabric Drawings,” astonishing works alternating between floral figurative pieces and chromatic abstractions.

This set of images is collected here in its entirety for the first time, constituting the closest thing yet to a general catalogue.

• This collection of pictorial and sculptural images is brought together in this anthology in a unique and exhaustive way.
• The publication is a means of approaching her distinctive iconographic and visual explosions and adding to our knowledge of the artist herself.
• Bourgeois’s emotional and figurative strength, translated into compositions of colour and form, is further testimony to her important contribution to the history of modern and contemporary art.

Lee Alexander McQueen (1969–2010), whose design combined visionary aesthetics, emotional power, and extraordinary craft, was known for staging provocative shows that were as much performances as venues to display his couture creations. Charged with energy, informed by history and culture, and filled with fresh concepts, McQueen’s shows have become legends not only of fashion but also of art. Anne Deniau was the only photographer allowed backstage by McQueen for 13 years, beginning in September 1997 and ending with the final show in March 2010. She captured McQueen working with his close circle of collaborators - including designer Sarah Burton, milliner Philip Treacy, jewelry designer Shaun Leane, and model Kate Moss - to create his meticulously produced spectacles. Her book offers an inspiring homage, through the art of photography, to the work of a great artist.