6+ Antwerp explores the international success story of Antwerp fashion – through the designers Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee, additionally Margiela who is referred to by the plus sign in the title.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the designer’s career, from the start of his fledgling label to the triumphs of his own world-renowned London house. It features his most iconic and radical designs, revealing how McQueen adapted and combined the fundamentals of Savile Row tailoring, the specialized techniques of haute couture, and technological innovation to achieve his distinctive aesthetic.
This magnificent survey of Calvin Klein is illustrated with era-defining photographs by the most distinguished names in fashion photography, from Irving Penn and Richard Avedon to Bruce Weber, and Patrick Demarchelier—among others. In it, the world’s most iconic models like Christy Turlington and Kate Moss, are captured in images that would define their careers. Every image was chosen by Calvin Klein to narrate his evolution as a designer—from couture to jeans, underwear, and fragrance—all categories in which he redefined what was chic and essential.
Green called upon long-term collaborator Jack Davison to photograph his SS21 Collection. Man and nature became one harmonious image in the striking black and white photographs, which have been reproduced in this book.
John Galliano has truly reinvented the art of haute couture, redefining its tropes into a new type of contemporary fashion and vision of Christian Dior. This book highlights the exceptional silhouettes he created for Dior collection after collection from 1996 to 2011, as photographed by Steven Meisel, Annie Leibovitz, Irving Penn and more.
In 1996, Alexander McQueen took over the Hawksmoor masterpiece Christ Church in London’s East End to present Dante – the seminal collection that would resonate throughout the young designer's career. This book features unique photographs shot behind the scenes, with raw, unseen pictures of the designer, models and clothes. The fashion creatives who worked with McQueen to make the show such a success recall this pivotal time in the designer’s career and reflect on what made the collection so groundbreaking.
Iconic British fashion designer, Jean Muir (1928-1995) was the doyenne of dressmaking. Her signature style married a distinctive purity of line with a soft fluidity on the body, to create the sensuous deceptively simple clothes that became her trademark, epitomised by her work in matte jersey, and in particular her jersey dresses, which brought her legendary status in an internationally-renowned career that spanned four decades. This book presents Muir's career across every aspect of the fashion world – including many of her sketches, as well as photography by Norman Parkinson, David Bailey, Eric Boman, and Deborah Turbeville.
Covering more than five decades, this publication gives a dazzling review of the great enfant terrible of French fashion, Jean Paul Gaultier (born 1952). Displaying Gaultier's oeuvre alphabetically--including iconic pieces such as Madonna's corsets and Kylie Minogue's stage costumes--Jean Paul Gaultier: From A to Z examines the designer's singular aesthetic from all angles while exploring his different influences: from cinema to dance, from Frida Kahlo to sailors.
In September 2020, Kim Jones was named head of Fendi’s couture and womenswear, marking a new era for the Italian brand. This publication examines Jones’s relationship to the legendary Bloomsbury Set: the early twentieth-century community of British writers, intellectuals, and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell, who inspired the collection and his creative process.
A photo-book by Luis Venegas made specially for the J.W. Anderson Workshop in Shoreditch – presenting the designer's collections, from archive pieces to present ones.
Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother. Her career has successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. This is the first and only biography written by Westwood in collaboration with award-winning biographer Ian Kelly, to describe the events, people and ideas that have shaped her extraordinary life.