these are the last copies of the very rare and out-of-print publication. celebrating yohji yamomoto’s 20 years in fashion, the book compiles all the images produced during the five years preceding its release - years in which the creative collaboration between m/m (paris) and yohji yamamoto took place. a collection of daring and poetic images, now iconic photos, made in a context of great freedom in fashion. photographs are by paolo roversi, david sims, inez van lamsweerde and vinoodh matadin, craig mcdean. they feature maggie rizer, stella tennant, amber valetta, kirsten owen, hannelore knuts...
the alphabet
2001
with inez van lamsweerde and vinoodh matadin
[anne-catherine, bridget, carmen-maria, sophie dahl, eleonora, fanni, griet, hannelore, isabeli, jeisa, karen, laetitia, michelle, ann oost, christina p...]
28 pages to celebrate 20 years of m/m (paris) ...out this fall.
english edition published by thames and hudson
french edition published by les éditions de la martinière
read the press release on http://www.mmparis.com/
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson (22 Oct 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 050028993X
ISBN-13: 978-0500289938
A 528-page monograph presenting for the first time twenty years of works by M/M (Paris), one of the most emblematic and influential design practices and art partnerships of the twenty-first century. Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak originally established M/M (Paris) as a graphic design studio in 1992. Their close associations with the music, fashion and art worldshave led to their becoming one of the most distinctive and acclaimed creative voices of their generation, within graphic design and beyond. Published to mark their twentieth anniversary, this is the definitive monograph. It records hundreds of their mind-blowing projects, each represented in illustrations and photographs and arranged alphabetically from M to M. While print, drawing, photography and an unconventional approach to typography lie at the heart of M/Ms work, they have also produced films, objects or interiors. Our work is about expressing the idea of a dialogue. We transfer elements from fashion to music to art and back again, and keep using different mediums, they explain. Each work they produce is unique, but certain elements recur and reverberate leitmotifs that draw their output, despite its range, into a unified whole. The monograph features collaborations with the finest from a spectrum of creative worlds, including fashion works with the likes of Balenciaga, Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs and Yohji Yamamoto; music works with Benjamin Biolay, Björk, Kanye West and Madonna; magazines such as Vogue Paris, Arena Homme+ or Interview; art projects and exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern and Guggenheim Museum. Interviews with some of their closest collaborators such as Björk, Nicolas Ghesquière, Pierre Huyghe, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Sarah Morris or Glenn OBrien, as well as Amzalag and Augustyniak themselves, tell M/Ms story. These texts reveal their areas of interest, define their position both within graphic design and beyond and shed new light on the duos creative process. Internationally renowned art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist contributes a preface, while contemporary artist Philippe Parreno offers an essay about their joint projects. These multiple conversations and recollections of shared experiences paint an overview of the evolution of the creative world since the early 90s. This ambitious monograph is a rare document and unparalleled insight into the work and minds of Europes most thoughtful and influential image-makers.
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cool! I'm not sure I would pick the book up based on the cover (especially if I didn't know who they were... but I'm intrigued about what it contains...
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