Fashion Designers A-Z (Multilingual Edition)

Fashion Designers A-Z (Multilingual Edition)

<strong>Fashion masterpieces: Defining designers of the 20th and 21st centuries and their most remarkable works</strong><br /><br />From <strong>Azzedine Alaïa</strong>, <strong>Cristóbal Balenciaga</strong>, and <strong>Coco Chanel</strong> to <strong>Alexander McQueen</strong>, <strong>Yves Saint Laurent</strong>, and <strong>Vivienne Westwood</strong>, a century’s worth of fashion greats from the permanent collection of the <strong>Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology</strong> in New York City are celebrated in this fresh edition of <em>Fashion Designers A–Z.</em><br /><br />Formerly available as a limited Collector’s Edition only, this accessibly priced and updated new edition features photographs of <strong>over 500 garments</strong> selected from the Museum’s permanent collection. From an exquisitely embroidered velvet evening gown to Mondrian-style minimalist chic, each chosen piece is chosen not only for its beauty but for its representative value, distilling the <strong>unique philosophy and aesthetics of each of the featured designers</strong>.<br /><br />Texts by the museum’s curators explain why each designer is important in fashion history and what is special about the chosen garments. In her introductory essay, director and chief curator <strong>Valerie Steele</strong> writes about <strong>the rise of the fashion museum, and the emergence of the fashion exhibition as a popular and controversial phenomenon</strong>. Together with a foreword by Suzy Menkes, Steele’s writings also provide a history of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in the world of fashion scholarship and museology.<br /><br />Text in English, French, and German