SKIN + BONES: PARALLEL PRACTICES in FASHION and ARCHITECTURE *

HODGE, Brooke; MEARS, Patricia; SIDLAUSKAS, Susan

ISBN 10: 050051318X / ISBN 13: 9780500513187

Published by SKIN + BONES: PARALLEL PRACTICES in FASHION and ARCHITECTURE *, * * * * *, 2006

About this Item

Dust Jacket & Book: New/, $128.80 050051318X SKIN + BONES: PARALLEL PRACTICES in FASHION and ARCHITECTURE * HODGE, Brooke; MEARS, Patricia; SIDLAUSKAS, Susan Thames & Hudson 2006 UnKnow Edition Tall Wide Thick D/j + H/c 0ff~White Spine With Title In Light Grey And Darker Grey Colored Letters On Spine, Dust Jacket & Book: New/, UnOpened In Publishers Original Loose Fitting Shrink Wrap Packaging. This Book Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic, Taped Shut And In A = Corrugated Mailing B0X. * To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described Which Applies To This B00K, Only. = No Odors, No Writing, No Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, No Book Plate, Not X~Library, No Other Marks. = Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE *.

Seller Inventory # 019806

Bibliographic Details

• Title: SKIN + BONES: PARALLEL PRACTICES in FASHION and ARCHITECTURE *
• Publisher: SKIN + BONES: PARALLEL PRACTICES in FASHION and ARCHITECTURE *, * * * * *
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 050051318X
• ISBN 13: 9780500513187
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Dust Jacket & Book: New/,
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

The first comprehensive examination of the many overlaps and visual and intellectual principles that unite fashion and architecture.

In recent years, the boundaries between architecture and fashion have become increasingly blurred, and this beautifully illustrated new book explores the intersections and concepts that underlie the two disciplines. Both architecture and fashion are based on the human body and on ideas of space, volume, and movement. Each functions as shelter or wrapping for the body—a mediating layer between the body and the environment—and can express personal, political, and cultural identity.

Fashion designers and architects share much of the same vocabulary and similar techniques of construction: pinning, darting, folding, wrapping, draping. Fashion designers have always been able to achieve complex, often architectonic garments using fabric. Today, many architects are looking to fashion and techniques of tailoring as they attempt to achieve more and more complex forms using hard materials.

The book focuses on the period 1980 to the present and includes forty-six architects and fashion designers from the United States, Europe, and Japan. The featured designers include Issey Miyake, Junya Watanabe, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, and Vivienne Westwood, among others. The architects include Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Eisenman Architects. 530 illustrations, 500 in color.

About the Author

Brooke Hodge is Curator of Architecture & Design at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. There are also texts by Patricia Mears and Mark Wigley.