“Silver and Suede is an educational and entertaining glimpse into New York life during the 70s and 80s when the city and its lucky inhabitants feasted on life every night and day.”
Words that immediately come to mind are exaggerated, fetishistic, derivative, historical, and sculptural to name a few. Guido Palau is at once artist, designer, stylist, inventor, and iconoclast.
Art/Fashion in the 21st Century is a bit misleading as a title because such collaborations actually began in the first half of the 20th century with Poiret and Schiaparelli.
While Deanna Farneti Cera has written extensively and eloquently about vintage jewelry, this latest title from her seems to be a bit too general and open ended for her area of expertise.
The year is 2008. The mission is to create a photo journal/diary of the 45 days that lead up to the March catwalk show for the Fall 2009 collection of Alexander McQueen in Paris.
The title Perry Ellis: An American Original can either be construed as a possible misnomer for the book or as one of the great moments of understatement used to describe a title in this ge
Just when you thought you have read everything about the legendary Christian Dior along comes one more fabulous book that exposes still one more facet of the man and his brand and what propelled th
This expansive and exhaustive study is described as a “taxonomy” (classification; especially orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships).
Lee Miller was a woman who would have been perfectly at home in the 21st century. She outshone many of her contemporaries and lived a life that anyone would envy no matter the time frame. Becky E.
From Project to Object might be an apt subtitle for this glorious love letter about one of the most revered and notable jewelers or “maisons of jewelry” that the world will ever know.
Fashion House is an ambitious undertaking on a subject that has probably entered every fashioncentric person’s mind at one time or another: How does a certain designer live his or her life
