Caroline Evans

Alistair O'Neill

Kaat Debo

- An overview of the most drastic changes in the fashion world today, how it is evolving, and what the future holds - Noted fashion historians write perceptively about the importance of fashion and its place in the world In this timely book, three noted fashion historians examine the global transformations in the fashion industry today, and identify the challenges of the future. Since the dawn of designer fashion at the beginning of the 20th century, the role and position of the designer has drastically changed. This book addresses how the interpretation of creativity, authorship, craft, and innovation have evolved in this new context, and asks what role designers play in a globalized and digitized fashion world.

Fashion in Transition

Emotion

Understanding fashion is a way to understand, and articulate, both the hopeful and the uncomfortable truths of the world. E/MOTION looks at the way fashion has served as a visual signifier of contemporary instabilities, concerns and emotions since the 1990s. Fashion is emotion, always in motion.

Olivier Saillard

Didier Grumbach

Madame Grs launched her design house under the name Grs in Paris in 1942. Formally trained as a sculptress, she produced haute couture designs for an array of fashionable women, including the Duchess of Windsor, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Jacquelin

Sculptural Fashion

Madame Gres

Karen Van Godtsenhoven

Miren Arzalluz

Fashion Game Changers traces radical innovations in Western fashion design from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Challenging the traditional silhouettes of their day, fashion designers such as Madeleine Vionnet and Cristóbal Balenciaga began to liberate the female body from the close-fitting hourglass forms which dominated European and American fashion, instead enveloping bodies in more autonomous garments which often took inspiration from beyond the West. As the century progressed, new generations of avant-garde designers from Rei Kawakubo to Martin Margiela further developed the ideas instigated by their predecessors to defy established notions of femininity in dress, creating space between body and garment. This way, a new relationship between body and dress emerged for the 21st century. With over 200 images and commentaries from an international range of leading fashion curators and historians, this beautifully illustrated book showcases some of the most revolutionary silhouettes and innovative designs of over 100 years of fashion.

Reinventing the 20th-Century Silhouette

Fashion Game Changers

Walter Van Beirendonck

Since the nineties, Walter Van Beirendonck has been fascinated with masks. They change your identity, invoke a certain atmosphere and have an instant impact. Many artists, among whom are André Breton, Pablo Picasso and even Brueghel, have been influenced by them. Power Mask - The Power of Masks elaborates on the many different aspects of masks: the link between Western art and African masks, the supernatural aspect, rituals about masks, masks in fashion or as a fetish... This book accompanies an expo in the Wereldmuseum (World Museum) Rotterdam, from 1 September 2017 until 7 January 2018. AUTHOR: Walter Van Beirendonck has launched clothing lines of his own making since 1983. His creations are characterised by bright, exceptional colour combinations and a strong graphical influence. He supervises and teaches at the Antwerp Fashion Academy. SELLING POINTS: * Walter Van Beirendonck's book on all the different aspects of 'masks' includes work by James Ensor, Paul McCarthy, Keith Haring, Louise Bourgeois, Emil Nolde, Axel Hoedt, Leigh Bower, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, André Breton... * With texts by Valerie Steele, Kaat Debo, and Chris Dercon * Elaborates on the many different aspects of masks: from the link between Western art and African masks, to their supernatural aspect, rituals about masks, masks in fashion, and even masks as a fetish 260 colour, 40 b/w

The Power of Masks

Powermask

Wim Mertens

Vanessa Friedman

Lydia Kamitsis

Elisa De Wyngaert

The first complete monograph on Olivier Theyskens surveys his twenty-year career and documents the highly anticipated return of his eponymous label. Olivier Theyskens’s refined sensibilities earned him international acclaim as the dark prince of late 1990s couture. From his first saturnine collections, to his new vision for Rochas, to his patterns and textiles at Nina Ricci, to his years designing for Theyskens’ Theory, the designer has proved himself a master of couture, semi-couture, and prêt-à-porter. Celebrated for his fine tailoring, romantic silhouettes, and gothic palette, Theyskens transforms each house he helms. This distinctive volume charts the twenty-year development of an extraordinary aesthetic vision, rendered across countries, cultures, and the shifting sands of the fashion landscape. Newly commissioned texts connect the threads of the Belgian-born artist’s diverse practice. Drawings created for the publication accompany photography from each period of his career. At both Rochas and Nina Ricci, the designer crafted ethereal garments with unorthodox silhouettes, mixing sheer fabrics and old-world bustles with subtly subversive punk elements. Theyskens then broke ground in 2011 with his trailblazing partnership, Theyskens’ Theory. With a special focus on the designer’s return to the runway at the head of his own line, this is the definitive work on a fashion visionary who, like the girls he designs for, changes form, but walks in beauty wherever he goes.

She Walks in Beauty

Olivier Theyskens

Dan Thawley

Van de donkere romantische kant van zijn vroege collecties die hem internationale faam opleverden, tot de nieuwe visie op couture die hij bij Rochas uittekende. Zijn meesterschap van patroon en textielbewerking bij Nina Ricci, zijn Amerikaanse avontuur bij Theyskens' Theory en de heropstart van zijn eigen label, Olivier Theyskens. Telkens verraden de silhouetten de hand van de meester. Zijn uitstekende talent voor tekenen en zijn autodidactische manier van werken geven een scherp inzicht in de verschillende aspecten van de hedendaagse modewereld: van couture tot semi-couture en prêt-à-porter collecties. De Theyskens vrouw verandert door de tijd: ze is romantisch, mysterieus, sterk en elegant, zowel oud als jong, maar ze gaat in schoonheid waar ze ook gaat.

Kaat Debo

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