From the Chanel suit to the Wonderbra, via Jackie Kennedy, Ziggy Stardust and Alexander McQueen, respected fashion journalist and editor Paula Reed explores each of the styles and visionaries that have defined the way we dress.

Spanning fifty years - from the 1950s to the 1990s - and accompanied by striking photographs throughout, Fashion Evolution is the definitive story of the style moments that changed the world.

Experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation and decay. This seminal publication offers an unexpected discussion of cutting-edge fashion in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties. Caroline Evans analyses the work of innovative designers, the images of fashion photographers and the spectacular fashion shows that developed in the final decade of the twentieth century to arrive at a new understanding of fashion’s dark side and what it signifies...

Having garnered high acclaim at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris in 2013, the exhibition Fashioning the Body: An Intimate History of the Silhouette was on view at Bard Graduate Center from April to July 2015 and presented the many devices and materials that women and men have used to shape their silhouettes from the seventeenth century to today, including panniers, corsets, crinolines, bustles, stomach belts, girdles, and push-up brassieres, alongside examples of period garments that were molded by these distinctive understructures. The exhibition also looked at how lacing, hinges, straps, springs, and stretch fabrics have been used to alter natural body forms...

This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the social ladder through fastidious management of self-image. These bourgeois dandies' agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the sixteenth century: one has to dress to impress, and dress to impress they did...

An engaging survey from the Middle Ages to the present, presenting fashion as a complex process that reflects economic, social, and political changes...

What woman can resist imagining herself in a beautiful designer dress? Here, for the first time ever, are 100 fabulous gowns from the permanent collection of the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each of which is a reminder of the ways fashion reflects the broader culture that created it....

This book brings together the work of fifty contemporary artists of different backgrounds and generations.These include major figures in the industry such as Bil Donovan, Aurore de la Morinerie, Piet Paris and Cecilia Carlstedt, a new wave of acclaimed illustrators such as Bijou Karman, Laura Laine and Connie Lim, as well as young talents who burst onto the scene with great success such as Alexandra Grahame, Samuel Harrison and Ángel Hernández. The book is divided into a series of thematic blocks that groups the chapters devoted to the artists. Each chapter comprises a selection of their magnificent and unique artwork, in addition to a brief presentation of their career, sources of inspiration, themes,techniques, influences and select clients. Showing countless and highly diverse artistic languages and styles (abstraction, realism, expressionism, figurativism), the anthology seeks to reflect the different ways of interpreting fashion from the perspective of the fine arts. Ana de Izaguirre is a linguist, editor, and writer. After graduating in philology, she completed studies in publishing, graphic design, and photography.

Over the past 40 years, Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art and ideology, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that both creative and commercial enterprise is possible in today's international fashion industry, and have refused to compromise their ideals, remaining autonomous and independent in their design, business affairs and distribution methods. The inspirational Miyake, Yamamoto and Kawakubo have gained worldwide respect and admiration and have influenced a generation of designers and artists alike...

"One is never over-dressed or under-dressed with a Little Black Dress" - Karl Lagerfeld

Ninety years after British Vogue dubbed Coco Chanel's simple short black 'Ford' dress 'the frock that all the world will wear', Chloe Fox celebrates the best LBDs in Vogue Essentials: Little Black Dress. From the bold, dramatic designs of Zandra Rhodes to the eye-catching LBDs by Vivienne Westwood, from the pared-down simplicity of Calvin Klein's shift dresses to an asymmetric shoulder evening gown by Versace, Vogue Essentials: Little Black Dress celebrates the very best of the LBD...

Mióta logó a logó? Mitől jó és miért értékes? És mi történik akkor, ha egy tervező grafikus nem a logótervezés fortélyaira keresi a választ, hanem a márkák belső működését firtatja? Nem lesz trendi, viszont megérti, hogyan hat az, amit tervez. Ez a könyv leás a vizuális érzékelés alapjaiig, körbejárja az identitás fogalmát, bepillant a márkák működési mechanizmusába, és rendszerezési sémát ad a tervezők, kreatív szakemberek kezébe. A vizuális identitás megtervezett érzés. A kreatív szakmákban tevékenykedők mindezt a márkafogalommal azonosítják. ..

Az időgép egy olyan, egyelőre csak elméletben létező szerkezet, melynek segítségével a múltba vagy a jövőbe repíthetjük fizikai testünket. A virtuális időutazás ezzel szemben hosszú előzményre tekint vissza: a művészek évszázadok óta ábrázolják az elmúlt és jövendő korokat saját tudásuknak, elképzeléseiknek, vágyaiknak megfelelően az irodalom, a képzőművészet vagy a film eszközeivel, miközben műveikben dokumentálják saját korukat is. A Ludwig Múzeum új kiállítása nem az időutazás tudományos-fantasztikus lehetőségével foglalkozik, hanem az idő és a művészet viszonyát vizsgálja különféle szempontokból, és magukat a műveket tekinti olyan időgépeknek, melyek lehetővé teszik számunkra a mentális utazást. Az Időgép című kiállítás eredeti szándékai szerint a jelenből kiindulva vizsgálta volna a múzeum gyűjteményét, a kétezres évek munkáit állítva a fókuszba...