Cool Fashion Books?

[MCC1528]

Re: Cool Fashion Books?

I just recently bought the Rick Owens l'ai-je bien descendu book. I just have to say its a really neat book,great photography and so on.... I got it on ebay for $330 [N] :( but it was a low numbered book and it was also signed by him :D.

[Faust]

I went to the Gothic exhibition at the FIT yesterday, which was absolutely awesome. One thing people did not mention was that there is a book accompanying the exhibition! Yea, I'm buying.

BTW, I may be adding back a once-lost partnership link with Amazon - will need to talk to Mr. Lowrey about this...

[Faust]

I went to the Gothic exhibition at the FIT yesterday, which was absolutely awesome. One thing people did not mention was that there is a book accompanying the exhibition! Yea, I'm buying.

BTW, I may be adding back a once-lost partnership link with Amazon - will need to talk to Mr. Lowrey about this...

Ok, so I got to flip through it at Strand, and I am definitely getting it with my next Amazon gift certificate. For $30, it's a great book.

[Avantster]

/\ Will have to check it out, saw it when I passed by at Kinokuniya but haven't looked at it yet.

[macuser2of5]

Fashion literature - wedding gift

So I have a friend getting married... As they are both into fashion/fashion literature, I am thinking of getting them a cool fashion-oriented coffee table book of some kind; something they can both enjoy. Any pointers? Ideally something not about Chanel or Gucci. ;)

[Avantster]

Hey there, you wouldn't happen to know macuser3of5, would you?

Read this thread. Yohji Yamamoto's Talking to Myself is an excellent book, though out of print there is a signed copy going on eBay..

[macuser2of5]

Ah, thank you... my midnight search-fu is weakened... And yes, though it appears that I cannot remember the password for the email address linked to my old account... C'est la vie.

[Avantster]

Heh, thought your username sounded uncannily familiar. In any case, welcome back.

[endersgame]

Counts as a fashion book, like this one very much, ver got around to ordering it:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/082122669X

i used to have exhibit a. the reproductions are horrible.

a message for you, published by steidl/dangin is a much better bourdin book..


if anyone here is interested in Paolo Roversi, i have an old Giorgio Armani SS98 catalog and an inscribed copy of Nudi i want to unload..

[Faust]

Steidl is coming out with a new Bourdin book next month.

[951SoCal]

Anyone want a number (n)ine lookbook?

[munch]

Anyone want a number (n)ine lookbook?

phor phree???

[Atom]

Anyone want a number (n)ine lookbook?

Hmm, is this a trick question?

[Acéphale]

[andrew]

I picked up Exhibit A a few years back in a junk shop for £5! great book.

Sorry if any of these have been mentioned already, i had a quick scan through and didn't see them.

I've recently pulled this out of my book case:

http://www.amazon.com/Habit-Habitat-Christa-Werner-Blaser/dp/B0025VL9FC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274360441&sr=1-1

She is really obviously a fan of Issey and Yohji (who is annoyingly referred to as Yoshi Yamamoto throughout the book) but it is a nice occasional reference and it deals with her early work which is so much nicer than the more recent stuff.

I also like the most recent Margiela one, there were a spate of really shit books (one with about 200 blank pages, how "deconstructionist") but this one made quite a nice retrospective of what once was.

http://www.amazon.com/Maison-Martin-Margiela/dp/0847831884/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274360731&sr=1-1

Also i was always gutted i didn't pick up a copy of this

http://www.amazon.com/Hussein-Chalayan-Caroline-Evans/dp/9056624431/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274360769&sr=1-1

Finally I dont think this one even needs explaining

http://www.amazon.com/Balenciaga-Paris-Pamela-Golbin/dp/0500513155/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274360923&sr=1-4

I've seen a bigger, glossier much more expensive Balenciaga book but i definitely prefer this one for reference to Christobal's work, and the early Ghesquiere stuff at the end of the book is just a little bonus.