Recommendations : Books About Fashion & Designers

[ad111714]

Does anyone know any good books on branding?

Uche Okonkwo: Luxury Fashion Branding. Trends, Tactics, Techniques. Basingstoke, Hampshire 2007: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

[Scott]

btw,long-time MMM fans....there is a new book being released in october compiling his career from beginning to i believe his anniversary collection. as well his art,design and performance. not sure what the latter means exactly...presentations or actual theatre??
it seems well worth the purchase considering it's got much of his early career covered. i dunno how different though it will be from the STREET publication except perhaps it includes more of his most recent works.

and its being edited by margiela himself as well as contributions from andree putman,vanessa beecroft,susannah frankel and even gaultier who was his former mentor.

you can actually pre-order.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/08...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=481918051&pf_rd_i=507846

*amazon.com

 

[Boomer]

^Looks like I have to start learning German again, nein?

No, I'm sure some nice tFSer will translate it for us...the whole book...

 

[Chanelcouture09]

i must get both the lagerfeld one (if its translated , cant see why not) and the margiela book (a must) the margiela book looks interesting

 

[romeoelliott]

wow i need to learn french and german

 

[ilaughead]

No, I'm sure some nice tFSer will translate it for us...the whole book...

Of course someone will. What would tFS be without these charitable members? Achtung an alle Deutschen, die guten Freunde bei TFS wollen eine Übersetzung. Sie werden vor nichts halt, bis sie es bekommen.

(Blame the Google translator for the bad grammar, I tried to do it myself, but naturally my two years of high school German apparently weren't enough!)

 

[Elise1986]

^^ well 450 pages is a lot to translate

 

[Boomer]

^^ well 450 pages is a lot to translate

Yeah, but it's Karl!! Dropping out of school or quiting one's job to spend several months translating is a small price to pay for spreading the gospel...

 

[Elise1986]

Yeah, but it's Karl!! Dropping out of school or quiting one's job to spend several months translating is a small price to pay for spreading the gospel...

well, maybe someone decides to give up the own life and spread Karls wisdom

didn't Karl once say that he doesn't like translations

 

[Boomer]

^ Yes, I think so...The only solution, obviously, is for Karl himself to do an audio book reading the whole thing...That way it will 1) Be available in English and 2) Will be no more understandable than if it was in another language!!
I have a new favorite book to recommend: The Gospel According To Coco Chanel by Karen Karbo- a wonderful little book by a non-fashion writer who has amazing insight to all things Chanel and the meaning of it all- highly recommended!

 

[xirja]

BOOK: Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster by Dana Thomas

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster by Dana Thomas

An interesting read about how 'mass' the business has become. She highlights
a few family companies that have resisted the trend to go public and/or
get acquired. However most of the book deals with the big players and how
and why they have taken luxury mainstream.

A question that comes from reading this book is:

Are most of us compelled to purchase an item based on exclusivity and
popularity rather than genuine quality?

 

[Sanya]

Fashion Illustration by Fashion Designers by Laird Borrelli

 

[ChicChanel01]

The Satorialist- Scott Schuman (been in loads of mags recently such as Grazia and Vogue) Its all about street style and the beauty of individuality. Not a bad price too at the moment on Amazon!
AND I still love the Dita Von Teese book -released last year I think. Some amazing photographs that show amazing creativity and passion! As well as being rather sexy at the same time

 

[Chanelcouture09]

i think to do with quality it can reflect in the price , like a classic chanel bag can cost upwards of £1,000 and you do have to sit and think why its so expensive , because its well made and the quality is going to be the best

a book id recommend would be Balenciaga Paris , its got to be one of the best books i've ever bought , it details Cristobal's years in alot of detail i.e legal documents , letters , floor plans of the salon and alot of pictures , some of which i've never seen
it also details Nicholas' years but as it was published in 2006 it doesn't contain alot of his work but his best show is covered , that being Fall 2006

 

[VogueParisLover]

I recently purchased Babeth and I will be able to open it for an early Christmas present.
I am excited, I really hope it is good... anybody else have it?

 

[maaxzc]

Anyone have the teen vogue handbook? how is it? is it a good purchase?

 

[BerlinRocks]

while browsing amazon (images source) ....
* tFS is once again having a problem. hope this will work.

found this :

* Rei Kawakubo and Comme Des Garcons / Deyan Sudjic / Rizzoli International Publications; illustrated edition (octobre 1990) / Collection : Blueprint Monographs

* ReFusing Fashion: Rei Kawakubo / Various Authors / Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (December 1, 2008)

One of the most influential figures in contemporary fashion design receives critical attention in this volume published after the exhibition ReFusing Fashion: Rei Kawakubo at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit. The purpose of the exhibition was to present Kawakubo's clothes, shops, designed ephemera-like posters and advertisements, and her collaborations with architects, photographers, and the great dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Kawakubo, through her clothing line Comme des Garcons, has re-formed and re-thought fashion from the widest of perspectives, combining ideas from the fashion and cultural histories of Asia, Africa and the West in assembled garments, or by tearing things apart to transform inherited ideas and make something very new. Cathy Horyn writing in the New York Times Style Magazine for Spring 2008 explained, Kawakubo, working more in the spirit of an artist than any designer today, attacks the problems of consciousness. The museum's exhibition committee, a group of artists, art historians, collectors and curators, took a fine art approach to the organization, seeing the exhibition as an installation, and a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art: all the pieces together revealing the whole. To understand the work, you need to see, sense and witness its majestic variety and uncompromising originality -- a dress with four arm holes in 1979; a jacket with the back cut up then tied together in 1988; a jacket with four sleeves: two regular, two kimono from 2003; garments sewn, tied, wrapped, pinned and assembled from others; seams frayed turning inside out, holes made and found, fabrics invented, pop art flowers, motorcycle jackets shaped like baseball gloves, capes with the geometry of an Amish quilt or Navajo blanket and a bride so contemporary that the decorations on her gown are printed images not made of actual fabric, but reproducible histories.
The book was designed to capture the flowing exhibition from all angles. The book designers and exhibition photographer developed a system of standing in fixed locations throughout the space and taking photos while turning around in a 360 degree circle. The photos start on the cover and continue throughout the book, alternating with pages of text, to create a sense that the pages have insides and outsides similar to clothing.
In addition to photographs of the exhibition, the book includes photos by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders of Kawakubo's costume designs for Merce Cunningham, photos from select Comme des Garcons fashion shows, a chronology, and essays by Harold Koda, curator in charge at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, architect Sylvia Lavin, Judith Thurman, writer for the New Yorker, and art historian Michael Stone-Richards.

* Soon to be released (feb-april 2010 - on pre-order on amazon) : Face Hunter by blogger Yvan Rodic (4 different covers). On sale in Paris (Colette) next week or so ....

* Histoire idéale de la mode contemporaine : Les plus beaux défilés de 1971 à nos jours [Ideal History of Contemporary Fashion : The Best ShowCollections from 1971 to nowadays] / Olivier Saillard / ed. Textuel (21 septembre 2009) / in FRENCH only.

 

[Elise1986]

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster by Dana Thomas

An interesting read about how 'mass' the business has become. She highlights
a few family companies that have resisted the trend to go public and/or
get acquired. However most of the book deals with the big players and how
and why they have taken luxury mainstream.

A question that comes from reading this book is:

Are most of us compelled to purchase an item based on exclusivity and
popularity rather than genuine quality?

i'm reading that book right now. it's pretty interesting.
it provides lots and lots of names, company history etc. which makes it difficult to follow sometimes, especially if you don't know those people/stories ...

however it's a pretty good book imo

 

[romeoelliott]

how's Tom Ford's book? The one with the black cover? is it useful?

 

[jf813]

Anyone have the teen vogue handbook? how is it? is it a good purchase?

It's actually a pretty good book. Informative interviews and great pictures!