Fashion Designers A-Z
A book by Valerie Steele, published by TASCHEN, 2012, 654 pages, 33.6 x 26.2 cm, illustrated in color, hardcover in plexiglass box, 3 languages: English, French, German, ISBN 978-3-8365-4303-3
With 110 portrait drawings by Robert Nippoldt
€ 275,- (Collectors Edition)
The Fashion Designers a.o.
- Miuccia Prada
- Coco Chanel
- Karl Lagerfeld
- Yves Saint Laurent
- Valentino
- Dolce & Gabbana
The first edition is published as a series of limited designer editions. The textile cover of each edition will be based on the design of a designer featured in the book. A list of designers and quantities follows. From Azzedine Alaïa to Cristóbal Balenciaga, Coco Chanel and Alexander McQueen to Yves Saint Laurent and Vivienne Westwood, the Fashion Institute of Technology's permanent exhibition (The Museum at FIT) presents the greatest fashion designers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Editor and Author:
Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of the Fashion Museum at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and editor of Fashion Theory magazine. Steele, rated by the Washington Post as one of the "most intellectual women in fashion," has a rare gift for communicating her profound academic knowledge (crowned with a doctorate from Yale) in a way that is universally understood. As an author, curator, journalist and media-present intellectual, she has made a decisive contribution to the emergence of the still young field of fashion studies.
The Co-Author:
She is the undisputed grande dame of the fashion world and heads the fashion section of the International Herald Tribune: Suzy Menkes is one of the most influential fashion critics in the world. She has already been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and received the distinction of Knight of the Legion of Honor. Suzy Menkes lives and works in Paris.
"The most important fashion designers of the 20th and 21st centuries and their most significant designs."