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SAMPLE Walter Van Beirendonck

SAMPLE By Walter Van Beirendonck

SAMPLE by Walter Van Beirendonck


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A survey of 100 of the most significant contemporary fashion designers.

SAMPLE Summary

SAMPLE: 100 fashion designers, 10 curators by Walter Van Beirendonck

SAMPLE presents 100 of the most creative fashion and accessory designers who have recently emerged internationally. Selected by 10 of the most respected figures in the field a mixture of leading designers and stylists, writers and curators its a must-see catwalk in a book

SAMPLE Reviews

'For those who love fashion, SAMPLE (Phaidon) is without a doubt the best book in town.' (Harper's Bazaar)
'Part museum exhibition, part encyclopedia [] presents [] talent from fashion capitals to far-flung outposts. Rich, visual layouts combine unseen sketches, illustrations, prints and fabric swatches along with ad campaigns and shows.' (Guardian)
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'You can take it with you: SAMPLE, an artfully assembled book of sketches, photographs, swatches and other materials highlighting the work of 100 emerging fashion designers from around the world, is sure to delight clotheshorses everywhere.' (Town and Country)
'A beautfiully presented, visual and insightful book that is to be seen on the most stylish coffee tablesdefinitivepages brimming with beautiful visuals.' (International Textiles)
'Part coffee-table book, part future-fashion biblestunning.' (Independent on Sunday)
'Should be on every stylish bookshelf.'(Independent)
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'Simply gorgeousas covetable as a Lanvin shiftSample isnt just another beautifully reproduced coffee table tome filled with fantastical fashion images (although its admittedly all that as well) but more of a sculptural object in its own rightpositively dazzlinga must-have tome.' (Sunday Herald)
'There are still some things in this often over-marketed and globally-accessible world we devotes call fashion that can cause your heart to flutter. One is the new fashion book from publishers PhaidonTo paraphrase Marilyn Monroe: it shakes you, it quakes you, it makes you go goosepimply all overexcellently editedEven if youre not a fashion fiend this book is a must[Sample] makes it clear that fashion is about so much more than clothes.' (Edwina Ing-Chambers, Financial Times)
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'Fashion nuts wont want to miss a thing. Lush close-ups of New York team Proenza Schoulers beading-drenched satin bustier dresses fill one page, Belgian Raf Simonss Loaded images of Arab-esque face coverings the nextsome of these designers may end up as mere flashes in the pan; others will be superstars. I smell a series.' (Toronto Globe and Mail)
'An invaluable reference tool for those in need of style counsel.' (Toro (Canada))
'Phaidon Press, no slouch in the special-effects department, has entered the fray with SAMPLE: 100 Fashion Designers, 010 Curators, designed by the doyenne of high-concept book design, Julie HastingSAMPLE is a masterpiece of production profligacy.' (Paper Magazine)
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'Lovers of fashion will find much to ponder in this excellent overview of the next age of creators.' (Publishers Weekly)
'Im obsessed with my latest purchase, an incredible fashion anthology called SAMPLE.'(Monique Meloche, Lucky Magazine)
'1,000 illustrations, displaying the work of 100 often very obscure, often very gifted, and usually astonishingly young designers. By its very nature this compilation accentuates the avant-garde and the over-the-top; theres a lot of energy and creativity in these pages.' (The Atlantic Monthly)

About Walter Van Beirendonck

10 Curators

Tim Blanks (London) hosts Fashion File, a magazine-style TV show, which takes an enthusiastic but clear-eyed view of the fashion world.

Patricia Carta (Sao Paulo) is Managing Director of Carta Editorial, the Brazilian publisher of Vogue, Casa Vogue and Vogue Men.

Ulrich Lehmann (London) is tutor of the post-graduate course in History of Design, run jointly by the Royal College of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Alexander McQueen (London) is one of the most famous and respected international fashion designers.

Arianne Phillips (Los Angeles) works as a costume designer in Los Angeles and collaborates with Madonna, styling her for film, music videos, the theatre and the concert stage.

Harriet Quick (London) is Fashion Editor for British Vogue.

Stephen Todd (Paris) is Editorial Director of fashion and culture publications produced by Editions Dit-Voir, France.

Kyoichi Tsuzuki (Tokyo) is a writer, editor and photographer. In 2003 Paris' Centre National de la Photographie and London's Photographers' Gallery exhibited his portraits of obsessive Japanese consumers.

Walter Van Beirendonck (Antwerp) is a fashion designer and Professor of Fashion at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

Brana Wolf (New York) is Fashion Editor-At-Large for Harper's Bazaar in New York and collaborates as a stylist with Steven Meisel for Italian Vogue.

Table of Contents

Preface; List of Designers and Curators; 100 Designers; Index

Additional information

GOR005657601
9780714847139
0714847135
SAMPLE: 100 fashion designers, 10 curators by Walter Van Beirendonck
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Phaidon Press Ltd
2007-06-22
432
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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