The Fashion Book

Following the format of "The Art Book", this volume looks at the fashion world and the people who created and inspired it. It contains an A-Z guide to the 500 most important names in fashion since the 1860s, from Coco Chanel and Issey Miyake, to Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton. http://www.dropshippers.co.za/

Following the format of "The Art Book", this volume looks at the fashion world and the people who created and inspired it. The book contains an A-Z guide to the 500 most important names in fashion since the 1860s, including clothes and accessory designers, photographers, models and iconic individuals who instigated or symbolize a fashion movement. Designers represented include Paul Poiret, Christian Dior, Balenciaga, John Galliano, Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Jeanne Lanvin and Issey Miyake. The book provides a survey of fashion photography with work from Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, Guy Bourdin, Irving Penn, Steven Meisel, Nan Goldin, Eve Arnold, Craig McDean, Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton. The book is arranged alphabetically, and a cross-reference system and glossary explain collaborations and techniques used in fashion. http://www.dropshippers.co.za/

The Fashion Book's production quality is a glossy-magazine junkie's dream - heavy, shiny white paper and graphically designed to within an inch of its life. And its content lives up to the way it looks - something of a rarity in the way of fashion books. It's essentially an A-Z of 500 movers and shakers in the fashion world, from Richard Avedon to Zoran, Balmain to Yamamoto. Its alphabetical format cuts through narrow categories and places models next to photographers, designers and fashion icons - where else would you find the late rock star Kurt Cobain next to Jean Cocteau? Enough pictures (one on every page) to be sumptuous, enough text (and glossaries and listings) to be informative - what more could you ask for? (Kirkus UK) http://www.dropshippers.co.za/

• Title: The Fashion Book
• New edition
• Illustrations note: 264 colour and 236 b&w duotone photographs, glossaries
• Imprint name: Phaidon Press Ltd
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