Couture Culture
Title | Couture Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy J. Troy |
Publisher | MIT Press (MA) |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780262701037 |
A study of the multiple connections between art and haute couture, in particular the activities of Paul Poiret, focusing on the tension between originality and reproduction in fashion, theater, and visual art.
Paris Fashion
Title | Paris Fashion PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Steele |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2017-09-21 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 1474245498 |
Paris has been the international capital of fashion for more than 300 years. Even before the rise of the haute couture, Parisians were notorious for their obsession with fashion, and foreigners eagerly followed their lead. From Charles Frederick Worth to Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent, fashion history is dominated by the names of Parisian couturiers. But Valerie Steele's Paris Fashion is much more than just a history of great designers. This fascinating book demonstrates that the success of Paris ultimately rests on the strength of its fashion culture – created by a host of fashion performers and spectators, including actresses, dandies, milliners, artists, and writers. First published in 1988 to great international acclaim, this pioneering book has now been completely revised and brought up to date, encompassing the rise of fashion's multiple world cities in the 21st century. Lavishly illustrated, deeply learned, and elegantly written, Valerie Steele's masterwork explores with brilliance and flair why Paris remains the capital of fashion.
Couture Confessions ebook
Title | Couture Confessions ebook PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Golbin |
Publisher | Rizzoli Publications |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2016-06-28 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0847849058 |
Late legendary couturiers of modern fashion speaking eloquently about life, design, and inspiration. Vionnet, Chanel, Dior, Saint Laurent, McQueen—these names define haute couture, and long after the designers have passed away, their influence on fashion continues to be profound. In an exceptional compilation of the original words of these couturiers, Couture Confessions provides a unique and in-depth look at the lives and work of these fashion icons. In this engaging, beautifully designed book, Pamela Golbin, acclaimed chief curator of twentieth-century fashion and textiles at Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs, has ingeniously constructed conversations in the designers’ own words that highlight their compelling personal stories as well as essential fashion "moments"—from designers Paul Poiret, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Madame Grès, Alexander McQueen, Madeleine Vionnet, and Gabrielle Chanel to Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent, Jeanne Lanvin, Pierre Balmain, and Christian Dior.Featuring striking illustrations by internationally recognized illustrator Yann Legendre, each "interview" asks the questions every fashion lover has always wanted to ask, making these legends approachable, human, and ever more inspiring.
Ruth E. Funk
Title | Ruth E. Funk PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth E. Funk |
Publisher | Panache Partners LLC |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Costume |
ISBN | 9781933415819 |
An illuminating exploration into the engaging world of artist Ruth E. Funk’s remarkable body of work, this beautifully compiled visual catalog is replete with brilliant imagery and layered with enlightening insights into her craft. This inspiring collection is complemented by the stunning photographic documentation of her work, showcasing Funk’s unique design aesthetic as applied to wearable art, her passion for the medium, and her innate understanding of evolving fashion. Exemplifying the artist’s versatile design techniques through her hand-sewn and embellished one-of-a-kind pieces - coupled with her vast knowledge of garment-making and fiber art jewelry - this delightful monograph is an authoritative historical documentation of a talented and beloved American artist’s contribution to the fiber and style community worldwide and an essential textile art guide for the design and fashion enthusiast.
Willi Smith
Title | Willi Smith PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Cunningham Cameron |
Publisher | Rizzoli Publications |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2020-03-24 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0847868192 |
African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work. Before Off-White, before Hood By Air, before Supreme, there was WilliWear. Willi Smith created inclusive and liberating fashion: "I don't design clothes for the queen, but the people who wave at her as she goes by," he said. A rising star from the time he left Parsons, Smith went on to found WilliWear with Laurie Mallet in 1976 and became one of the most successful designers of his era by his untimely death in 1987. Smith broke boundaries with his streetwear, or "street couture," and trailblazed the collaborations between artists, performers, and designers commonplace today in projects with SITE Architects, Nam June Paik, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Spike Lee, Dan Friedman, Bill T. Jones, and Arnie Zane. Essays by leading figures from the worlds of fashion, art, architecture, and cultural studies paired with never before-seen images and ephemera make Willi Smith essential reading for the history of streetwear culture and the evolution of fashion from the 1970s to today.
Traditional Couture
Title | Traditional Couture PDF eBook |
Author | Tillmann Prüfer |
Publisher | Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Clothing and dress |
ISBN | 9783899555721 |
Traditional clothing is essentially haute couture. Made with high quality fabrics and elaborate workmanship, it embodies cultural heritage and style. Encompassing a surprising variety of garments, it represents premium handcraft, an awareness of tradition, a sense of belonging, and an affinity to one's homeland. At the same time, folkloric clothing is inspiring some of today and tomorrow's most ambitious and radical fashion designers. In 'Traditional Couture,' photographer Gregor Hohenberg succeeds in building a visual bridge between the outmoded and the avant-garde in German folkloric fashion. He portrays the individuals, young and old alike, who wear traditional attire in all the regions of his homeland, as well as their surroundings.
Punk
Title | Punk PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Bolton |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2013-05-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300191855 |
Examines the impact of punk on fashion, focusing on its do-it-yourself, rip-it-to-shreds ethos, the antithesis of couture.