Laziz Hamani

Farid Chenoune

2007 marks the sixtieth anniversary of Christian Diors revolutionary New Look. This sumptuous volume charts the fashion houses history since that groundbreaking collection, with original photography and perceptive texts that track the output of each of the iconic companys couturiers, from Christian Dior himself through Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan and Gianfranco Ferré to John Galliano. The book is enlivened throughout by press reviews and photographs of such celebrity models as Bettina, Suzy Parker and Kate Moss, each immortalized in Dior by the top fashion photographers of the time, from Richard Avedon to Nick Knight.

60 Years of Style : from Christian Dior to John Galliano

Dior

Jéromine Savignon

Yves Saint Laurent / by Farid Chenoune and Florence Müller

Original photography and insightful text illuminate the House of Dior, including 150 of its most beautiful haute couture dresses by Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferre and John Galliano. Celebrity models from Suzy Parker to Kate Moss are immortalized in Dior by fashion photography legends from Irving Penn to Nick Knight. This definitive anthology of one of the world's foremost couture houses captures the ambiance, creativity, and fashion of each era. An added bonus: an appendix of the house's 120 Haute Couture collections.

Traces the development of men's clothing from the eighteenth century to the present, and describes fashion trends.

A History of Men's Fashion

"Chenoune, the editor of Carried Away, and Olivier Saillard, the curator of the accompanying exhibition at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Europe's leading fashion and design museum, have organized the unimaginable wealth of bags into several categories. The chapter discussing domestic bags explains the relationship of bags in the contemporary world to those of other cultures and antiquity. In the chapter exploring travelers' bags, the rich variety of this type is discussed, including messengers' bags, knapsacks, wineskins, nomads' sacks, bags for supplies, the 'auto' bag of the 1920s, the 'Gladstone' and the humble tote. Bags for professionals are also considered, including survey bags carried by postmen, plumbers, and other craftsmen, but also, medieval messengers' boxes, seamen's duffles, soldier's leather cartridge bags, and an overview of the design, leatherwork, and production of bags. The chapter devoted to bags as talismans celebrates the cross cultural, psychological, sexual, mythical, and shamanistic significance of bags ranging from Pre-Columbian ritual objects, to pilgrims' bags from the Middle Ages and Native American cosmogony bags. Carried Away surveys the surprising evolution of the useful commonplace bag into a high fashion totem, and suggests that, chameleon-like, the bag continues to change its form and adapt itself to new circumstances and uses." "The Illustrations are gathered from an equally wide variety of sources and media, including traditional fashion photography, decorative arts, painting, ethnographic collections, military museums, and private collections." --Book Jacket.

All About Bags

Carried Away

By mixing styles drawn from the streets of London and Paris, Jean-Paul Gaultier has earned a place in the mainstream of haute couture. This fashion memoir looks at his career and his designs from the end of the 1970s onwards.

Jean Paul Gaultier

From the restrictive corsets of the late 1800s to the revealing thongs of the early 20th century, women's lingerie has changed drastically. This evolution mirrors changes in society regarding both the role of women and the ideals of beauty. Thanks to such items as the laced, corseted waist of turn-of-the-century coquettes, the uplifted busts of early-1990s supermodels, the sexy lingerie of a 1950s pin-up, and the see-through (or entirely absent) bras of the 1970s, women's underwear has provided the unseen superstructure on which modern canons of beauty have been based. A revealing text by Parisian-based fashion historian Farid Chenoune gives the context for the story of the most beautiful women of the century, while pictures of glamorous icons, as well as lesser-known Venuses, adorn the pages of this sumptuous book.

A History of Lingerie

Hidden Underneath

Explores the inspiration behind some of this internationally known fashion designer's most famous creations, from his skirt for men, to Madonna's cone-shaped bustier

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Musée du Petit Palais (Paris, France)

Bernard Blistène

Yves Saint Laurent

Florence Müller

Yves Saint Laurent was an artist who worked in the sphere of fashion, and whose entire life was devoted to a quest for perfection. His entire creative output is featured in this book.

Farid Chenoune

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