Yves Saint Laurent in unvergesslichen Zitaten
Yves Saint Laurent revolutionierte die Mode mit gewagten Entwürfen, die Frauen stärken sollten. Nach seinem Abschied von Dior gründete er 1962 sein eigenes Haute-Couture-Haus. Inspiriert von Kunst, schuf er ikonische Kollektionen. Dieser Band zeigt seine Ansichten über Mode, Design und Inspiration in seinen eigenen Worten.
Christian Dior in unvergesslichen Zitaten
Kluge Worte eines legendären Designers Christian Dior gilt als Schöpfer einiger der luxuriösesten und eindrucksvollsten Haute-Couture-Designs aller Zeiten. 1947 wurde er mit der Kreation seines „New Look“ über Nacht zur Modeikone. Der darauf folgende weltweite Ruhm beruhte nicht zuletzt auf dem subtilen Verständnis des Couturiers für Mode, Stil, Eleganz und Frauen – eine Sichtweise, die am besten in Diors eigenen Worten zum Ausdruck kommt, die hier zum ersten Mal gesammelt wurden. Dieser elegante Geschenkband stellt zahlreiche Einsichten Christian Diors zusammen, angefangen bei der Art sich zu kleiden bis hin zu seinen Einblicken in den kreativen Prozess.
Haute Couture Embroidery
The definitive monograph on the most luxurious and illustrious Haute Couture embroidery house in the world, featuring specially commissioned photography of Maison Lesage’s historic creations. The most prestigious Parisian Haute Couture artisans, Maison Lesage has collaborated with the biggest names in fashion, from Chanel, Schiaparelli, and Yves Saint Laurent, to Cristobal Balenciaga, Valentino, and Alexander McQueen. Founded in 1924, when the Lesage family bought the eminent firm of Michonet (then a supplier to such fashion legends as the House of Worth), Maison Lesage has created exceptional embroidery motifs—often requiring hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of precise beadwork—for star fashion designers for decades. Perhaps best known today for the masterpieces it creates for Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel collections, the house was bought by Chanel in 2002 as part of its Paraffection group to ensure the survival of the house’s unique history and extraordinary skills. Illustrated with specially commissioned photography of the house’s historic creations and illuminated with texts by Patrick Mauries, who has written extensively on Chanel, Maison Lesage is both a tribute to exceptional craftsmanship and a journey through more than one hundred years of fashion at its most sumptuous and inventive. This book will be coveted by anyone interested in luxury fashion.
Coco Chanel ist nicht nur als Designerin eine Legende. Mit messerscharfem Verstand und trockenem Humor formulierte sie ihre Einsichten zu Stil, Luxus und Mode, aber auch zu ihren Zeitgenossen. Die besten ihrer überlieferten Gedanken und Zitate sind in diesem edel gestalteten Geschenkbuch versammelt, begleitet von eleganten Illustrationen. Egal, ob es über Arbeit, Geschmack oder vermeintliche Gesellschaftsnormen geht – Coco Chanel war nie um einen Spruch verlegen, und so zeitlos wie ihre Mode sind auch ihre Bonmots. Das perfekte Geschenk für alle Fashionistas!
The best-selling Chanel Catwalk was the first book to gather every Chanel collection ever created by Karl Lagerfeld in a single volume - a unique opportunity to chart the development of one of the world's most influential fashion brands and discover rarely seen collections. Now fully updated (with twenty-two new collections) and concluding with Lagerfeld's final collection for the house, the book will be a lasting tribute to Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel. 0 This definitive publication opens with a concise history of Karl Lagerfeld's time at Chanel and a brief biographical profile of the designer. It goes on to explore the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images, showcasing hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs - and of course the top fashion models who wore them on the runway. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book
Le sol inondé, à certaines périodes de l'année, d'un café vénitien, sous les Procuraties ; le service de porcelaine blanc et orangé du café Greco à Rome ; les murs de miroirs et de mogano, acajou sombre et poli, du Baratti à Turin... C'est à la fascination pour ces endroits immatériels, transitoires par essence, que ce petit livre veut donner corps. Le sol inondé, à certaines périodes de l'année, d'un café vénitien, sous les Procuraties ; le service de porcelaine blanc et orangé du café Greco à Rome ; les murs de miroirs et de mogano, acajou sombre et poli, du Baratti à Turin... C'est à la fascination pour ces endroits immatériels, transitoires par essence, que ce petit livre veut donner corps. En brassant, sans fausse pudeur, réminiscences, descriptions, anecdotes, bavardages - sinon médisances - sur des rites perdus, des boissons merveilleuses, des muphtis d'Arabie, des amoureux lunatiques et des excentriques de toutes sortes, parmi lesquels le regretté Tabacchino, chien, amateur de café, dont l'émouvant éloge funèbre, qu'on lira ici, fut justement prononcé dans le lieu qu'il hanta, l'air gourmand, le regard vide, une vie durant.
A smart, sophisticated compendium of fashion’s most trenchant quotes, from Oscar Wilde to Kanye West, with color illustrations specially hand-drawn by Christian Lacroix The fashion world has long been celebrated for its scintillating salon wit. The sharpest tongues and quickest repartee has always sprung from the lips of fashion royalty. From Oscar Wilde to Miuccia Prada, fashion’s words of wisdom have become our daily bread. Fashion Quotes compiles hundreds of the snappiest quotations, selected from over three centuries: from the society beaux of the eighteenth century and the literary wits of the nineteenth century to the celebrity elite of the twentieth century and today’s hippest Twitterati. Christian Lacroix has gilded the pages with creative inspiration, his illustrations perfectly expressing the color and panache that we expect from fashion’s finest. The collection is divided into quotations from different spheres, including: Elegance, Shoes, Taste, The Little Black Dress, Dandyism, High Heels, The Cleavage, Eccentricity, Fashion Follies, and Vanity. Fashion Quotes will be the must-have gift for every fashionista and aspiring wit, or for anyone looking for the ultimate cheeky pick-me-up, whip-crack wisdom, or poisonous punchline.
Karl Lagerfeld’s world-famous cat dispenses essential advice on lifestyle, diet, fashion, beauty, and international travel for the uber-fashionable feline. Choupette—the constant feline companion of designer Karl Lagerfeld, creative director at Chanel—is a celebrity pet like no other. She has it all, from her own iPad to private jet service. She eats from Goyard silver seated next to Karl at the table, has been immortalized in Tokidoki figurines with the Kaiser, and has inspired his couture collections. "I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat," Mr. Lagerfeld said in a CNN interview. Choupette delivers words of wisdom to her 37,000+ Twitter devotees, but here, for the first time, she shares her complete lifestyle guide. Humorously themed chapters cover diet, beauty, healthcare, fashion tips, secret loves and pet hates for the pampered cat, along with observations and advice from Madame Horn (her vet), and Madame Françoise (her lady’s maid). Photographs taken by Karl himself include his Sacred Cat of Burma on fashion shoots with Laetitia Casta and Linda Evangelista. The book is completed with drawings, poetry, and photographs of literary cat-lovers including Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Saul Steinberg, Dorothy Parker, and Edward Gorey. This season’s most talked-about cat book is the perfect chic gift for cat lovers, the fashion-conscious, and style-aware readers.
Erik Desmazieres is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. This book locates Desmazieres and his work in the long tradition of artist-printmakers, surveys the world of 17th-century antiquarianism and its intriguing cast of characters; and examines today's reawakened interest in cabinets of rarities and curiosities.
