Chanel (Fashion Memoir Series)

Arts & Photography

Baudot, François

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Christian Lacroix founded his own fashion house in the 1980s, launching elegant collections, and bringing new life to the haute couture. This book reveals a shy man who loved theatre, literature and tradition. His nature seems more like that of an artist, and he nourishes himself on "remembrance of things past" and the culture that influenced his designs.

Lacroix (Fashion Memoir) /anglais

Biographies & Memoirs

Designer Elsa Schiaparelli remains one of the most extraordinary figures of the fashion world between the wars. Her eccentricity and wit, and the surrealist and baroque influences in her work, have often placed her in opposition to Chanel, her great rival. She shocked, amazed and stunned in a world where elegance rhymes with extravagance.

SCHIAPARELLI (FASHION MEMOIR)

After working for a number of different houses, Paul Poiret set up on his own in 1904 and a few years later was influential in creating a fundamental change in female dress - flowing clothes inspired by orientalism. This text presents his work in textiles, perfumery and decorative arts.

PAUL POIRET (FASHION MEMOIR)

Following his first show in Paris in 1981, Yamamoto became an instant success and has risen to the ranks of the world's top designers. This volume explores his pioneering approach to fashion - his loose, unstructured garments which have become a striking alternative to Western style.

Yohji Yamamoto (Fashion memoir)

Thames and Hudson

Muscular and macho, a mystery behind his signature shades, Mugler has always loved to shock. In his teen years, Mugler was a dancer at the Ballet du Rhin, which inspired his passion for movement and theatrical effect. At the same time, he was a student at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs which developed his knowledge of design. At twenty he got a job at Gudule, the first of Strasbourg's "swinging" boutiques, and two years later was working as a freelancer for couturiers in Paris, Milan, and London. In 1973 he created his first independant collection that was the first intimation of the super-cool, ultra-feminine style that was to become his own.Whether she manifests herself as an astronaut, rodeo girl, Russian peasant, lady vampire, or blue angel, la muglerienne is versed in Freud, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and comic strips. So daring is his vision that such popular icons as Verushka, Dee-Lite, Diana Ross, Ivana Trump, Darryl Hannah, Jerry Hall, and Patty Hearst have willingly participated in his mega fashion shows. Then came the Muglerman, with impeccably cut clothes to echo the male figure, with pronounced shoulders and waist and tapered trousers. In addition, Mugler has designed for the stage and screen, has created a perfume called "Angel" which is only outsold by Chanel No. 5, and is a highly respected photographer. He is truly a superstar in a leather jacket.

THIERRY MUGLER (FASHION MEMOIR)

Beauty and practicality with striking modernity

EILEEN GRAY (DESIGN MEMOIR) /ANGLAIS

The empire of the Empire style was that of Napoleon, and the style was deliberately created to legitimize and glorify his rule. Sober forms drawn from Ancient Greece and Rome, and for the first time from Egypt, were enriched with gilding and sumptuous silks; new furniture shapes were invented. From its most lavish to its most austere, the Empire style influenced cultures as far removed as those of tsarist Russia and republican America. This volume shows both hidden treasures and key examples from the French imperial heartland - interiors, designs, furniture, porcelain and textiles.

Empire Style

History

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

The creations of Azzedine Alaia are considered by many to be the sexiest, trendiest, and most utterly original clothes produced by any contemporary designer. Alaia's talent and reputation, spread largely by word of mouth, has won him the adoration of an extraordinary suite of faithful clients, among them Naomi Campbell, Tina Turner, and Jessye Norman. Here the story of the young designer is told with flair and intelligence and is lushly illustrated with top-echelon photography of Alaia's signature creations - in all their exuberance and sensuality.

Alaia (Universe of Fashion)

Graphic Design

Universe

Gabrielle Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli both had enormous influence in all the spheres in which they orbited, and both left a permanent mark on the taste of our time. Elsa, nicknamed Schiap, was truly grand; her mother was a Neapolitan aristocrat, her father a renowned scholar and bibliophile. From childhood, Schiaparelli browsed through the priceless illuminated manuscripts curated by her father, developing a lifetime passion for the makers of fine art, many of whose talents she employed in the magnificent fashion house she created at an early age. Schiap started her career in New York, and, during the Jazz Age, she opened a small shop near the Place Vendome where she sold her first collection devoted to sportswear, then all the rage for liberated women. Inspired by the geometrical vocabulary of art deco and cubism, taking advantage of the flexibility of new synthetic fibers, and inspired by the paintings of Picasso, Braque, and Mondrian, Schiap created a sensation. Schiap's career didn't really survive World War II, since a shattered public was no longer in tune with the eccentricities of the Jazz Age. Schiap's comet-like appearance remains a main event of fashion history and is succinctly and elegantly documented in this book.

Schiaparelli (Universe of Fashion)

Fashion

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