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5 Books About Fashion Continued


By Bill O'Sullivan
07th Oct 2013

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5 Books About Fashion Continued

1.? ?Style Book II: Patterns and Prints by Elizabeth Walker

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The follow-up to ?Style Book: Fashionable Inspirations?, ?Patterns and Prints? follows on in the same vein – each spread pits two full-page images against each other with the focus on, yup, patterns and prints.? It’s a simple as that.? Elizabeth Walker’s frame of reference and scope is huge – you might see a picture of Mexican teenagers celebrating the Day of the Dead in traditional striped dresses next to a shot of Anna Piaggi in a vintage coat with the exact same pattern, or a model wearing a Moschino slogan knit next to Bob Hope wearing a not dissimilar varsity sweatshirt.? Equal parts inspiration and eye candy.

2. ?Viviane Sassen: In and Out of Fashion? by Viviane Sassen, Charlotte Cotton and Nanda Van Den Bergviviane_sassen._in_and_out_of_fashion

Viviane Sassen is a true renegade when it comes to fashion photography.? She’s obsessed with duality, with the morphing nature of the human body and with making her images more than a little bit off kilter.? Her work can be both erotic and disturbing, beautiful and yet not quite right.? It’s the most comprehensive look at a woman who, as her shoots for the likes of POP and Carven show, is adding something new to art and photography instead of looking backwards through a nostalgic filter

3.? ?The World According to Karl: The Wit and Wisdom of Karl Lagerfeld?? by Patrick Mauries and Jean-Christophe NapiasKarl-Book-Cover-vogue-12jun13-pr_b

If you’re expecting a full-on investigation into the complicated psyche of the man behind the sunglasses, you’re in the wrong place.? Instead, ?The World According to Karl? is a collection of all of the man’s best, most quotable utterances.? Split into categories (Karl Lagerfeld has made a LOT of witty comments) such as ?Karl on Life?, ?Karl on Chanel? and ?Elizabeth (his mother) on Karl?, there’s a Krazy Karl Kwote for almost every occasion.? I, personally, will never want for a unique birthday card greeting ever again.

4. – Fashion: The Whole Story? by Marnie Fogg

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If you want to know where your shoes came from, or when women started to wear trousers (Note – much earlier than you’d think), ?Fashion: The Whole Story? is the book for you.? While it’s incredibly ambitious in its aim to cover pretty much every aspect of fashion, it’s also accessible and very-almost indispensable. Fogg’s book is awash with timeline, photographs, covetable fashion artefacts and regular tidbits.? It’s a book to dip in and out of at leisure, with something new to learn on every page.

5.? ?Bold, Beautiful and Damned: The World of 1980s Fashion Illustrator Tony Viramontes? by Dean Rhys-Morganbold-beautiful-and-damned-the-world-of-1980s-fashion-illustrator-tony-viramontes_1060860

?Since the popularisation of photography, work for fashion illustrators has taken a marked downturn, with the exception of a brief, incredibly fecund period in the 70s and 80s.? Tony Viramontes, along with a cadre of other fashion illustrators (the most famous being Antonio Lopez, who currently has a MAC collection named in his honour) lived fast, partied hard and produced some truly beautiful work.? Viramontes? hard, striking and uncompromisingly sexy illustrations struck a chord with the fashion industry – this lovingly rendered book is a testament to his legacy.