"A long-awaited and highly intimate visual history of the glamorous, world-renowned, and family-run Italian fashion house Versace. Versace, a name that epitomizes decadent glamour, bold sexiness, and a mythical flair for the extravagant, holds its place firmly in the fashion world as a legendary and iconic luxury brand. From its beginnings in the 1970s under the helm of fashion’s creative genius Gianni Versace, to its current status as ..."
Blumarine(1st Edition) Anna Molinari: The Queen of Roses by Elena Loewenthal, MariaLuisaFrisa Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2016 by Rizzoli ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-4958-1, ISBN: 0-8478-4958-9
"The story of Anna Molinari’s beloved and successful fashion house, as told through a kaleidoscope of stunning images by famed photographers. Blumarine has become synonymous with fashion created for the modern woman, characterized by a sensual femininity and timeless romanticism, with a vibrant edge. Anna Molinari, known as "the queen of roses" because of her love for the flower, is the designer and creative force behind the label, which ..."
"The first monograph on important Franco-Chinese contemporary artist Yan Pei-Ming, whose work blends Eastern and Western cultural influences. Yan Pei-Ming is one of the most important figures in contemporary art. His large-scale, monochrome paintings--portraits of politically charged figures such as Mao, Pope John Paul II, Barack Obama, and Vladimir Putin, as well as cultural icons Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Bruce Lee, and Picasso- ..."
"This luxurious large-format book documents the work of the American designer Rick Owens, a transformational figure in contemporary fashion. Defiantly antifashion, Rick Owens’s honest and intensely personal approach to craft has ironically produced some of the most sublime fashion of the last two decades, propelling him to the front ranks of the international avant-garde.Established in 1994, Owens’s subversive designs have now becom ..."
"An unprecedented publication showcasing Gucci as never before, including thought-provoking essays, commentaries, and authoritative anecdotes along with previously unpublished contemporary and archival photographs. Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Gucci Museum in Florence, Gucci is the ultimate celebration of the world-renowned fashion house. Told through a loose grouping of words, concepts, shapes, and moods, the boo ..."
"A book that focuses on Florence’s long and fruitful relationship with fashion; not only the fashion that lives and works in the city, but also the one that arrives from all over the world on the occasion of the events staged here, reinterpreting places and tracing new routes. Florence is the only city in Italy that is able to bring its geography and its history back to life each year thanks to fashion. Its places, stories and protagonis ..."
"An ambitious sculpture and video installation. Fabulae Romanae is a symbolic film excursion across Rome as seen through the eyes of ten ethereal spirits drawn from archaeological and historical research conducted by Lucy and Jorge Orta, and from observing the cultural and social map of the city. As the film unfolds, these contemporary sentinels silently take over the city: We encounter the traveler under the Castel Sant’Angelo bridge a ..."
Italian Fashion Now(1st Edition) (Mode) by MariaLuisaFrisa Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2011 by Marsilio ISBN-13: 978-88-317-9812-9, ISBN: 88-317-9812-X
"What’s hot in Italian fashion now, and what soon will be hot. New stars are rising in the Italian fashion world—a varied group comprised of a young generation of designers who studied at fashion schools in Italy and abroad, who love contemporary art and architecture and are not afraid of facing new challenges. They all understand that it is necessary to go beyond the label of "Made in Italy" in order to find a new global identity for ..."
"Simonetta, a living legend as beautiful as any of her models, is an aristocrat by birth and has spent her youth amidst the international celebrities for whom she designed her sophisticated clothes; among them: Lauren Bacall, Dorothy McGuire, and Silvana Mangano. From the forties to the seventies, from the Rome atelier in her family’s Palazzo to her Paris boutique on Rue François, the innovative lines of her daring creative fashion had ..."
"• Art & Fashion coincides with the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo's upcoming exhibition, May 2016 to April 2017• Ferragamo is a creator of luxury shoes and accessories spanning three generationsThis catalog accompanies an exhibition to be held in various locations from May 2016 to April 2017, and will include many works of art on loan from public and private collections, along with contemporary works of art created specifically for the occas ..."
"A reflection on the tools and creative possibilities of fashion curating Taking its inspiration from two precedents--Italo Calvino's famous meditation on aesthetic properties Six Memos for the Next Millennium, and the legendary typewritten ..."
"The fashion exhibitionist: an insightful look at Vreeland’s iconic life. One of the legenday figures of the fashion world, Vreeland began her career at Harper’s Bazaar, where her monthly column, "Why Don’t You?," dared her readers to take control of their lives, take risks, and live dreams they didn’t even know they had. Her talented eye introduced us to the new beauties of the 1960s: Twiggy, Anjelica Huston, Marisa Berenson and Laure ..."
"Only recently has fashion photography been accurately seen as an important medium within contemporary visual culture: it has evolved from a mere supporting role of reproduction into a creator of icons and ideas, and a veritable form of art. Its power, in defining itself as a means of communication, is to record, or even determine today's lifestyle. Italian Eyes not only shines a much-deserved light on Italians who have made photographic ..."
"Do uniforms-- objects of fascination to many--unite or distinguish individuals? Do they create reassuring equality or disturbing balkanization? The uniform, starting point for modern dress, combines functional and formal qualities in a situation of mass production and serves to equalize individuals regardless of social status. The aim of this book is to reinterpret, from a contemporary point of view, the uniform as a prototype of male d ..."
"The great march of Italian fashion, with the boom in ready-to-wear.Italiana sets out to celebrate Italian fashion in the crucial years from 1971 to 2001 and to tell its story, highlighting the progressive and bringing into focus the establishment of an Italian fashion system in that great period of Made in Italy that set the seal on the Italian lifestyle's leading role in the world.This volume is produced to coincide with the exhibition ..."
Gianfranco Ferre(2nd Edition) Lessons in Fashion (Mode) by MariaLuisaFrisa, Rita Airaghi Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2010 by Marsilio ISBN-13: 978-88-317-9974-4, ISBN: 88-317-9974-6
"The first book to reveal the fashion ideology of one of the most renowned Italian designers. Gianfranco Ferre was known as the architect of fashion (he graduated with a degree in architecture from Politecnico University in Milan). In his long career, he delivered hundreds of lectures on fashion in schools around the world. Those lectures have been preserved and are now collected in this book together with an unpublished selection of ske ..."
"Styles and lifestyles are fast becoming uniform under labels and definitions of fashion, and as an industry and a cultural form. Total Living is the point of no return in a project which, step-by-step, develops strategies whose goal it is to offer an even more sophisticated and targeted lifestyle. It is a place where there are definitions for clothes, behavior modes, and even the atmoshpheres and spaces in which one moves. Assuming the ..."
Italian Jeans(1st Edition) by MariaLuisaFrisa Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2035 by Marsilio ISBN-13: 978-88-317-0818-0, ISBN: 88-317-0818-X
"The story of how a garment made of cloth became a fashion accessory. After emigrating from Italy to America in the middle of the nineteenth century, jeans came home after the Second World War bringing with them the image and values of the American dream. Prosperity, opportunity, a feeling of liberation, hope: the myth seemed to have been cut out of the same indigo-dyed cloth.Young Italians fell in love with jeans at first sight, made ..."