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The Hidden Facts of Fashion
Fashionary · 2019
The Hidden Facts of Fashion is not just a book of random facts - it's a combination of fashion, fun, surprise, knowledge, and helpful hacks. Brought to life with photographs and illustrations, The Hidden Facts of Fashion will enrich your fashion knowledge across 80 different topics, revealing phenomena, unexpected history, fun stories, and more.
Maison Martin Margiela
Maison Martin Margiela · 2009
Graduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion design and a polemical approach to luxury trends. Working first with the house of Gaultier, Margiela absorbed the radical design of Japanese deconstruction, making it wholly his own with the founding of his own label in 1988. Margiela propounds a singular, enigmatic look, moving beyond the recognizable tropes of deconstruction—a monochromatic palette, outsized garments, non-traditional fabrics, exposed seams, or roughly appliquéd details—to develop a fully considered worldview, one with elegance, mystery, and menace in equal measure. This book provides an inside look at the design process from a craftsman who creates pieces prized for their originality, delicacy, and daring. In the spirit of Margiela’s garments, the book is a work of art in itself, designed exclusively by Margiela and complete with silver inks, ribbon markers, a variety of lush paper types, twelve booklets, and an embroidered white-linen cover. This book provides a window onto the intimate, handmade world of a unique designer.
Margiela. The Hermes Years
Kaat Debo, Sarah Mower, Rebecca Arnold, Vincent Wierink, Suzy Menkes · 2018
Issey Miyake
Midori Kitamura · 2024
In 1983, Japanese designer Issey Miyake told The New Yorker that he aspired “to forge ahead, to break the mold.” With the boundary-defying fashion lines that followed, he not only broke molds, but recast clothing altogether. With a unique fusion of poetry and practicality, his creations blur the boundaries between tradition, modern technology, and everyday function.<br/><br/>This definitive history of Miyake’s clothes from 1960 to 2022 offers expert insight into the designer’s vision and daring. Initiated and conceived by Midori Kitamura, the book looks at the texture-driven originality of Miyake’s materials and techniques from the very earliest days of his career, before he had even established the Miyake Design Studio. Drawing on nearly 50 years of collaborative work with Miyake, Kitamura creates an encyclopedic reference of his material and technical innovations through the clothes based on A Piece of Cloth concept, Body Series of the 1980s, Miyake Pleats series, and such practical, everyday designs as Pleats Please pieces.<br/><br/>Stunning photographs capture his clothes in their particular quotidian originality. In her far-reaching essay, meanwhile, leading cultural figure Kazuko Koike offers both a complete chronology of Miyake’s work, and an unprecedented personal profile, looking at the ambition and inspirations that have driven his repertoire from tender teenage years. A must-have for designers, students, and fashion devotees, this is a timeless tribute to one of the most innovative makers of our age.
Fluence: The Continuance of Yohji Yamamoto: Photographs by Takay
Terry Jones, Yoichi Ochiai · 2020
An elegant, large-format homage to the Yamamoto look<br/>A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2020<br/><br/>This volume celebrates the creative power and style of the great Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto. Shot in sensuous black and white, primarily in Tokyo, these previously unpublished images―by photographer Takay―respond to the iconic black designs and silhouettes of Yamamoto’s clothing, featuring some of Japan’s most accomplished actors, musicians and models, such as stage director Yukio Ninagawa, photographer Daido Moriyama, actress Rie Miyazawa, media artist Yoichi Ochiai and musician Char. The locations hark back to Japan of the 1980s, the end of the Showa era.<br/><br/>The seed for this book was planted many years ago, at the start of Takay’s career, when he worked on a Yamamoto project, and came to fruition after he was offered the use of the Yamamoto archive, which spans 40 years of designs. For Takay, Yohji Yamamoto’s work exemplifies a strong, avant-garde, masculine style, mixed with a keen Japanese sensibility and elegance.<br/><br/>Takay (born 1973) is a Japanese photographer based in New York, whose photographs have been featured in major fashion publications such as Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, L'Uomo Vogue and I-D, as well as in global advertising campaigns. His work has appeared in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s exhibition Men in Skirts, which traveled to the Metropolitan Museum in 2003; the Couture Chanel exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing; and the Met’s Spring 2013 Costume Institute exhibition Punk: Chaos to Couture. In 2016 Takay published the monograph Echos.
COMME DES GARCONS (FASHION MEMOIR)
GRAND FRANCE · 1999
Rei Kawakobo, The Japanese Designer, Is One Of The Most Influential And Subversive Figures In Contemporary Fashion. - The Book Looks At Her Innovative And Redefining Style.
MARTIN MARGIELA
Collectif · 2018
Cet ouvrage est publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Margiela/Galliera 1989-2009" présentée au Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode la Ville de Paris, du 3 mars au 15 juillet 2018. Martin Margiela: acteur majeur de la mode contemporaine. Diplômé de l'Académie royale des beaux-arts d'Anvers, section mode, seul créateur belge à s'installer à Paris. Première collection printemps-été 1989, dernière collection printemps-été 2009. Par désir d'anonymat et pour préserver sa vie privée, choisit de ne montrer que ses créations, griffées d'une étiquette vierge. Perçu comme "destroy", puis "minimaliste" et enfin "conceptuel", questionne le système de la mode, de sa conception à son usage, par sa ligne "artisanale" de vêtements récupérés et détournés, et par des présentations hors normes. Attiré par ce que la mode a toujours caché, érige doublures et étapes de fabrication au rang de vêtements. Goût marqué pour le passage du temps et les différences d'échelle à l'origine de collections de référence: reproductions à l'identique de pièces anciennes, garde-robe de poupée agrandie à taille humaine et modèles XXXXL. L'ouvrage: par Martin Margiela et le Palais Galliera. Présente son parcours créatif, de la première à la dernière collection. Chronique à la fois complète et personnelle de l'influence de ce créateur sur l'histoire de la mode.
