FASHION GAME BOOK ANGLAIS. - Couverture souple

Muller, Florence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2759402924 ISBN 13 : 9782759402922

Editeur : Assouline, 2009

Synopsis

Fashion Game Book A compendium of intrigue, lore, who's who and what's what of fashion.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Which designer prefers people with bad taste ?
Who "invented" haute couture ?
Which princess once compared one of Paul Poiret's designs to a body bag ?
Which of yesterday's avant-gardes have become the classics of our modern era ?
How did YSL, Christian Dior, Gabrielle Chanel, and Ralph Lauren get their starts in fashion ?
Fashion has history, and knowing its past allows one to better understand contemporary creations and separate the fads from the fabulous. Fashion Game Book introduces you to the minds of the great masters and takes a playful approach to design-from the basics to the outer limits of haute couture-with more than 400 photographs and illustrations. A true anthology, this book offers the ideal key to unlock the enviable world of fashion with style and ease.

Florence Müller is an art historian and expert on contemporary fashion and the history of fashion. She is a professer at the Institut Français de la Mode and Paris' fashion editor of Surface magazine. She has contributed to numerous exhibitions, publications, and documentaries, including Yves Saint-Laurent (Abrams, 2008), Costume jewelry for Haute Couture (The Vendôme Press, 2006), Art & Fashion (Assouline) and Histoire du look (a series of documentaries, 2007, ARTE).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Assouline
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 2759402924
• ISBN 13: 9782759402922
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384