Description: The New French Couture: Icons of Paris Fashion By Elyssa Dimant, Published by Harper Design, 2016, hardcover, softcover, 280 pages, 12.75 x 10.5 inches. Lavishly illustrated. With more than 175 color high-fashion photographs, this stunning, comprehensive, and authoritative handbook on modern French couture, covering the finest Parisian houses of couture--including Chanel, Dior, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, and more--and the creative directors who are redefining their legacies for the twenty-first century. While trends emerge from New York, London, and Tokyo, the fashion capital of the world remains the City of Light. From Coco Chanel to Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Dior to Raf Simons, Hubert de Givenchy to Riccardo Tisci, the evolutionary arc of French fashion and its most revered houses grows richer with each season and with a continuous infusion of imaginative new talent. The New French Couture identifies the fashion leaders whose longstanding ateliers have endured, and the creative pioneers who continue to reinvent and reinterpret their signature iconography, including Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, Raf Simons at Christian Dior, Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy, Alber Elbaz at Lanvin, Alexander Wang at Balenciaga, and Hedi Slimane at Saint Laurent. Though haute couture remains the exclusive domain of a few houses, the Parisian fashion panorama is rife with gifted luxury establishments who specialize in hand-craftsmanship, exquisite design, precious materials, impeccable production, and a celebrity clientele. The New French Couture provides a dazzling tour through the advertising, editorial, runway, and behind-the-scenes lives of these exclusive ateliers, revealing the evolution of each brand, their definitive looks, and fashion "moments." Here, too, are profiles of those who have made Paris their home, reimagining contemporary French luxury more independently of the fashion conglomerates, such as Hussein Chalayan, Jean Paul Gaultier, Azzedine Alaïa, and Phoebe Philo for Céline. Breathtaking in scope and vision, beautiful, sophisticated, and informative, The New French Couture provides a comprehensive glimpse at the breadth of the Paris's impressive and abiding fashion authority. Condition: Acceptable. Small tear and crimping to dj at upper spine. Ruffling and light wear to edges of dustcover. Shipping: Buyer pays $5.90 media mail or $14.99 priority shipping in the U.S.
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Type: Illustrated Hardcover
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Book Title: New French Couture : Icons of Paris Fashion
Item Length: 12.8in
Item Height: 1.2in
Item Width: 10.5in
Author: Elyssa Dimant
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Fashion & Accessories, General, Sociology / Urban
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Design, Art, Social Science
Item Weight: 79.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 280 Pages