This is a monograph devoted to Antonio Marras, one of the most interesting of today's fashion designers. The Italian designer's work is documented in a thorough but not celebratory way, through short essays that examine the different themes of his poetics. An interview, an accurate biography and a list of all his shows complete the volume. At the same time a lavish set of illustrations reflects the development of his ideas and creativity, all the way up to his most recent, prestigious appointment as artistic director of Kenzo Woman. Antonio Marras is an outstanding figure in the panorama of contemporary fashion. Mode is a series edited by Maria Luisa Frisa, which studies fashion as creative system of the contemporary world and analyzes its ability to generate products, images and ideas that have a determining influence on daily life, guiding and directing tastes and trends. It is a series that uses today's perspectives to look behind significant people and events to reconstruct the birth and evolution of a system that is constantly in motion. Mode's aim is to be a quick and versatile tool, featuring essays on a single topic and critical monographs on the new protagonists of the fashion system, with black-and-white and full colour illustrations that coexist in harmony in a format that is almost pocketsize, at a reasonable price, in Italian and English. It will be the ideal tool for the ever-growing number of students pursuing degrees in fashion and fashion-related subjects, for scholars, for members of the trades as well as for all those who want to know more about a topic which, along with architecture, art, cinema, design and photography contributes to defining today's landscapes. Maria Luisa Frisa is the fashion curator of The Fondazione Pitti Discovery, and chair of the new degree course in Fashion Design at the Faculty of Arts and Design, IUAV Venice.

Giorgio is the Italian designer that changed fashion history. This book, Giorgio Armani, is an incredible collection of images by the most famous photographers who have worked with Armani over the years (Steven Meisel, Mario Testino and Annie Leibovitz, among others).

Featuring full-colour illustrations, this title tells the fascinating story of Savile Row - the undisputed centre of male 'haute couture' for more than 200 years.

A lively and multifaceted portrait of a true icon of the fashion world of the 1970s. Universally renowned as the master of the total look, Walter Albini created his first collection in 1963. After a meeting with Mariuccia Mandelli he worked with the Krizia atelier and, during his latest season, beside Karl Lagerfeld. Research on dress-making and fabric is one of the all-time features of Albini’s work, to whom must be ascribed the birth of a new kind of relationship between the designer and the fabric manufacturer, opening a new groupage concept for advertising on specialized periodicals. This book addresses a crucial moment in the history of fashion: the birth of prêt-à-porter with the definitive overcoming of the atelier and the achievement of a certain democracy in fashion. Walter Albini was a protagonist of this moment, aware as he was of the necessity for change and innovation in people’s taste.

Reflecting ideas ranging from humanity's diverse cultural history to contemporary society and a future world that is conscious of its place in the cosmos, CTRLZAK's projects draw on tradition and cultural contexts to create a new hybrid future by learning continuously from the past. As a hybrid studio integrating diverse disciplines and cultures, CTRLZAK creates artworks, objects and spaces inspired by the natural world as well as the global experiences and rich cultural backgrounds of its founders. Above all, the studio crafts points of reflection where form follows meaning. Form Follows Meaning explores CTRLZAK's work from its inception in 2009--when it was founded by artists and designers Katia Meneghini and Thanos Zakopoulos--to the present day. Featuring a selection of the studio's projects, Form Follows Meaning goes beyond aesthetics and functionality to present creative work that is striking and meaningful. CTRLZAK's creations have been extensively exhibited in galleries around the world and have been selected by museums and institutions including MoMA, the Louvre and the Venice Art Biennale.

This peer-reviewed volume contains selected papers from the First EAGLE International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Cultural Heritage, held in Paris between September 29 and October 1, 2014. Here are assembled for the first time in a unique volume contributions regarding all aspects of Digital Epigraphy: Models, Vocabularies, Translations, User Engagements, Image Analysis, 3D methodologies, and ongoing projects at the cutting edge of digital humanities. The scope of this book is not limited to Greek and Latin epigraphy; it provides an overview of projects related to all epigraphic inquiry and its related communities. This approach intends to furnish the reader with the broadest possible perspective of the discipline, while at the same time giving due attention to the specifics of unique issues.