Sample: 100 Fashion Designers - 010 Curators - Hardcover

Editors Of Phaidon Press

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714844403 ISBN 13: 9780714844404

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2005

Synopsis

SAMPLE presents 100 outstanding fashion designers selected by 10 of the field’s leading professionals, including editors, stylists, designers, curators and writers. Truly global in scope, it has collected the world’s most exceptional international young designers from fashion's four capitals – London, Paris, Milan and New York – as well as from other less prominent but no less flourishing centres of activity, such as Auckland, Osaka, Stockholm, Mallorca, Hollywood and Dakar.

The 100 fashion designers are arranged in alphabetical order, with each featured on their own two double-page spreads. Combining photographs, sketches, drawings and computer renderings, SAMPLE explains the processes behind seasonal collections, as well as showcasing final pieces from the realms of mean’s wear, women’s wear, shoes, hats and accessories. Concise, descriptive texts by curators explain the designers’ work and the characteristics that make their fashion groundbreaking.

SAMPLE is a meticulously crafted book that gives exposure to previously unseen archive material including formative design sketches and candid, backstage photographs. It is a unique collectors’ piece made for the truly style-conscious, as well as an indispensable reference tool for anyone with an interest in fashion.

SAMPLE takes its place in a series of surveys identifying 100 of the most interesting, cutting-edge practitioners of key art forms. Earlier surveys include cream and Fresh Cream, for contemporary art, 10x10 for architecture, BLINK for photography, Spoon for design and Area for graphic design.

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Even the cover of this book on innovative fashion design is unique; its white pleated paper is just a taste of the originality to be found within. Ten of the fashion world's most respected figures, such as four-time winner of the British Designer of the Year award Alexander McQueen, and freelance Paris-based journalist Stephen Todd, have chosen 100 international young designers of clothing and accessories to show off their work. Their creations are bold and often unusual. The book's smart layout has a collage feel to it, with descriptions of each designer written in typewriter-like font placed in a white box, and photographs and sketches surrounding the text. Azumi and David Percival Yamashita, the design duo behind the London label A'N'D', present bags made out of boots and shoes, and leg warmers derived from cut-off jeans. Nicole Noselli and Daphne Gutierréz, of the New York label Bruce, showcase a balanced collection of inventive yet accessible designs, including cotton shirtdresses with pin tucks on the sleeves. And Rio de Janiero's Isabela Capeto, in her line Ibo, features styles inspired by architecture and ethnicity (e.g., a blue and yellow dress with diagonal straps forming a halter top). Lovers of fashion will find much to ponder in this excellent overview of the next age of creators. 1,000 color illus.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714844403
• ISBN 13: 9780714844404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 420