Flair: Fashion Collected by Tina Chow

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847814955 ISBN 13: 9780847814954

Publisher: Rizzoli, 1992

The Tina Chow Fashion Couture collection includes some of the finest designers in the industry such as: Fortuny, Balenciaga, Chanel, Vionnet, James, Dior, Lanvin, Poiret, Schiaparelli, Alaia, Cardin, Givenchy, Gigli, Lagerfield, Rhodes, Miyake and Saint Laurent. Over fifty of the best examples are presented and discussed in this volume. Drawings, patterns and sketches as well as photographs taken by some of the most illustrious names in fashion photography over the past decades.

From Library Journal:

Chow, fashion model and jewelry designer of the 1970s and 1980s, put together a collection of clothing by the great 20th-century designers that exemplifies the authors' desire to give fashion "credibility as a kind of object for collecting." With a discerning eye and sense of style, Chow gathered garments that strikingly demonstrate each designer's importance to the art of fashion; the photographs here illustrate their--and her--artistry. Published to accompany an exhibit held at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, the book has also become a posthumous tribute to the collector, who died of AIDS on January 24, 1992. Important for fashion, art, and photography collections.
- Gayle A. Williamson, Fashion Inst. of Design & Merchandising, Los Angeles
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.