Embroidery

Rocca, Federico

ISBN 10: 8889431237 / ISBN 13: 9788889431238

Published by Damiani, 2006

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Large format black cloth hardcover with yellow embroidered titles as new with minute shelfwear only oversized and overweight no jacket as issued. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Embroidery
• Publisher: Damiani
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8889431237
• ISBN 13: 9788889431238
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 78 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fashion

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Synopsis

Tracing the recent rise in popularity of embroidery in Italy, a nation characterized by its opulence and emotion

The absolute dedication required by embroidery's sophisticated, precious handiwork has rendered it increasingly rare: as a craft, it calls for mental discipline even more than physical, and for infinite patience, virtues so far from contemporary, so eccentric in a society that wants everything delivered at once, that of course embroidery has come into the spotlight again. Embroidery: Italian Fashion follows the technique's recent rise in a national culture known for its opulence and emotion, and brings readers the experience of both with a soft, embroidered cover. Inside, the details of micro-paillettes, mirrors, bugle beads, ribbons and implausibly thin threads produce virtuosities, coups de theÇtre, surprising elegances. Embroidery is a door on a wondrous, opulent dimension where light plays with the richness of threads, and Embroidery shows its meaning transformed by the violence of modern lines and gestures, like the burnt Swarovski crystals that are Riccardo Tisci's hallmark. When Antonio Marras presented a skirt at his first Milan show in which the embroidery seemed to allude to beginner's work, to the gauze on which little girls once learned to sew, he asked his embroiderers to imitate this style, calling it "wrongstitch." And those extraordinary craftswomen, accustomed to perfection, learned just what feeling, what fascination can be concealed in an apparent mistake. The embroiderers and their colleagues remain the silent but ever-present heroines of this revival, their handiwork recalling the human touch at every glance. Includes work from Anna Molinari, Blumarine, Dolce & Gabbana, Emilio Pucci, Gianfranco Ferre, Marni, Roberto Cavalli, Valentino and Versace.