Zack Carr

George Carr

ISBN 10: 157687155X / ISBN 13: 9781576871553

Published by powerHouse Books, New York, 2002

About this Item

powerHouse Books, New York, 2002. Hardcover, 200 pp. 1st edition, 1st printing (stated, plus full number line). Large format. A tribute to fashion designer and creative director for Calvin Klein, Zack Carr, who died in 2000. Profusely illustrated with photographs, his sketches, and including selected personal writings. The book is authored by his brother George Carr, who has signed and inscribed this copy. See photos. An invitation to the book launch party in Los Angeles was found inside and is laid in. Fine condition in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket is in a new mylar sleeve. **Heavy or oversize Item. An extra shipping charge may apply.**.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1740871826447

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Zack Carr
• Publisher: powerHouse Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157687155X
• ISBN 13: 9781576871553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fashion
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

As the creative director of Calvin Klein, where he worked for nearly three decades, Zack Carr helped develop the house into one of the premier forces in fashion worldwide. His premature death from cancer in 2000 cut short a life and career that indelibly altered the status of American fashion, and in the process more than any other helped stamp it "The Look" and "Lifestyle" to which so many across the globe aspire.

As a tribute to Carr's life and legacy, his brother George Carr and famed designer Sam Shahid have compiled an exquisite collection of photographs, sketches, and selected writings that make Zack Carr an indispensable reference volume for aestheticians and people of taste, whether town or country. Born and raised in Kerriville, Texas, Carr began his career working for B. Altman & Co. and manufacturer Donald Brooks before joining Calvin Klein in the early 70s. He left Klein in 1984 to launch his own company, the Zack Carr Collection, but returned in 1988 where he worked until being diagnosed with POEMS Syndrome, a rare paralyzing blood cancer. Despite the illness, Carr continued to create, and, as the paralysis spread through his body, had to reteach himself how to draw.

In his sketchbooks, Carr would paste cut-outs of his sketches, his "dolls" as he called them, alongside his inspirations—a Horst postcard here, a paparazzi snap of Carolyn Bessette there. Carr considered his sketchbooks to be "what I consider a true expression of myself...my being...what interests me, what excites me, what is me...and what is my true being." Zack Carr is a splendid journey to that somewhere, taking us on a tour of his world inhabited by many muses (Balenciaga, Chanel, Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy), friends (Marina Schiano, Gwyneth Paltrow), and inspiration found in the form of art itself.

About the Author

George Carr graduated from the University of Texas before moving to New York and working at Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren. He left fashion to pursue a career in acting and writing, and has written two plays and a screenplay, Zack Carr is his first book.