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The Fashion Book
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.Backstage & Frontrow is an all-access pass to the heady world of fashion and glamour, via the eyes of Gauthier Gallet. For almost ten years, Gallet scanned behind-the-scenes and the front-rows at the ready-to-wear and couture shows in Paris, Milan, New York and Tokyo, as well as some of the most star-laden parties of the past decade. Gallet’s uncalculated images reveal the strength of his subjects and capture, in a split-second, the “now,” the moment. His unique working relationship with models, designers and celebrities, their mutual trust, is reflected in his lasting images. Backstage & Frontrow is at once a tribute to his work and a testimony to a great talent.
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Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Epoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewellery; the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark. Early in the Roaring Twenties, Chanel made the first ever couture perfume - No. 5 - presenting it in the famous little square-cut flagon that, inspired by Picasso and Cubism, became the arch symbol of the Art Deco style. No. 5 remains the most popular scent ever created. Chanel knew instinctively that the road to success lay in being absolutely at one with her own time. And what a time! The era of Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Visconti - all of whom 'Coco' knew and collaborated with, even as she matched their modernist innovations by liberating women from the prison of 19th-century fashion and creating a whole new concept of elegance.
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Front Row: Anna Wintour
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Glamorous "Vogue" magazine editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is the most powerful style-maker in the world. She influences designers, wholesalers, and retailers globally from Seventh Avenue to the elegant enclaves of Avenue Montaigne. And every month millions of "Vogue" readers turn the pages of the chic and trendy style wish book that she has controlled with an iron hand in a not always so velvet glove. Now in her mid fifties, as she nears her remarkable quarter century at the helm of "Vogue", comes this revealing biography that will shock and surprise both Anna's fans and detractors alike. Based on scores of interviews, "Front Row" chronicles the insecure and creative climb of this powerhouse to the top of the bitchy, competitive fashion magazine world, exposing for the first time how she artfully crafted and reinvented herself along the way.
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Four Hundred Years of Fashion
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Four Hundred Years of Fashion tells the story of men’s and women’s fashionable dress through the ages, covering clothes for all occasions and including a wide range of accessories such as shoes, fans, hats and even undergarments. Illustrations are wide-ranging, from the magnificent 18th-century court manuta, sumptuously embroidered with silver thread, to Vivienne Westwood’s psychedelic punk outfit.
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Unseen "Vogue": The Secret History of Fashion Photography
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."A lavish and beautiful celebration, UNSEEN VOGUE is testimony to the truth that unofficial history is often more intriguing" - Observer
.Style A to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty, and Everything Glamour
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.From red carpet premieres to hot nights, Rachel Zoe personally decides what Hollywood's 'it' crowd is wearing. Now, she offers full access to the style secrets that skyrocketed clients such as Lindsay Lohan, Cameron Diaz, and Mischa Barton to the top of best dressed lists worldwide. Readers will discover how to develop their own individual style in every part of their life, from clothing to entertaining to home decorating- on a realistic budget. STYLE A TO ZOE includes tips on must-have accessories and wardrobe staples for every occasion, on packing and traveling like a jet-setter, and on when to save and when to splurge on handbags, shoes, and more. With original interviews and contributions from fashion A-listers like Michael Kors, Donatella Versace, and Roberto Cavalli, as well as never-before-seen colour photographs of Rachel's celebrity clients and her Hollywood home, readers will soon be creating their own red carpet moments.
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. A visual journey through the decades, "Vintage Fashion" is a book for those interested in collecting and acquiring vintage but it also caters for the woman who is 'beyond fashion', who will always be looking at past influences for inspiration when developing her individual look. Featuring the work of Coco Chanel, Christian Lacroix and Muccia Prada among others, it will be of interest to fashion students, designers and any fashionista.
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.The twentieth century saw the effective end of haute couture, the rise of pret a porter and, finally, the triumph of street fashion. "A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th Century" unravels the complexities and contradictions behind these changes to chart the history of modern fashion. What caused the demise of haute couture in the twentieth century? What does the 'democratization' of fashion actually mean? Which key designers bridged the gap between 'couture', with its associations of elite class and taste, and 'street style', a product of tribalism and of popular culture and protest? If fashion imitates art and art imitates life, does life imitate fashion - do we wear the clothes or do the clothes wear us? Setting fashion within its social, cultural and artistic context, "A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th Century" presents an engaging history of the interplay between commerce and culture, technology and aesthetics, popular culture and pastiche, and fashion and anti-fashion.
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Fashion History
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Louis Vuitton City Guide 2008, an invitation to travel
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