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ANGLOMANIA : TRADITION AND TRANSGRESSION IN BRITISH FASHION by BOLTON ANDREW
Category: Fiction | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
Anglomania, the craze for all things English, gripped Europe during the mid-to-late 18th century. As perceived by Anglophiles such as Voltaire and Montesquieu, England was a land of reason, freedom, and tolerance, a place where the Enlightenment found its greatest expression. What began as an intellectu ...Show more
About Time - Fashion and Duration by Andrew Bolton; Michael Cunningham
Category: Fashion
Traces fashions from 1870 to the present along a conceptual, disruptive, and nontraditional timeline of fashion history Fashion not only reflects and represents the spirit of the times, it also changes and develops with the times. About Time takes as its starting point the 1870s--when major developments ...Show more
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty by Andrew Bolton
Category: Fashion | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
Arguably the most influential, imaginative, and provocative designer of his generation, Alexander McQueen both challenged and expanded fashion conventions to express ideas about race, class, sexuality, religion, and the environment. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the desig ...Show more
Camp - Notes on Fashion by Andrew Bolton; Fabio Cleto (Contribution by); Karen van Godtsenhoven (Contribution by); Amanda Garfinkel (Contribution by)
Category: Fashion
Drawing from Susan Sontag's seminal essay, this striking volume explores the meaning of camp and its expression in fashion from its origins to today Although an elusive concept, "camp" can be found in most forms of artistic expression, revealing itself through an aesthetic of deliberate stylization. Fas ...Show more
China: Through the Looking Glass by Andrew Bolton
Category: Art and Design
For centuries, China's export arts-jade, silks, porcelains, and, more recently, cinema-have fueled Western fantasies of an exotic East and served as enduring sources of inspiration for fashion. This stunning publication, which accompanied one of the most successful exhibitions in The Metropolitan Museum ...Show more
Dior by John Galliano 1997-2011 by ANDREW BOLTON
Category: Fashion
During his time as a student at London's Central Saint Martins, Gibraltar-born British fashion designer John Galliano worked as a dresser at the National Theatre, learning the art of costume and the power of illusion. As a regular in London nightclubs, Galliano met a coterie of artists and colourful per ...Show more
Fashion Together - Fashion's Most Extraordinary Duos on the Art of Collaboration, Trust, and Love by Lou Stoppard; Andrew Bolton (Foreword by)
Category: Fashion
Fashion is often seen as an industry of eccentric personalities and unique, exceptional talents but it's the collaborators, rather than the individuals, who underpin the industry and inspire this book. This stylish volume, compiled by Lou Stoppard, editor-at-large of London's SHOWstudio, delves into the ...Show more
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination by Andrew Bolton
Category: Home and Garden | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art (MAA) (YUP) Ser.
A brilliant exploration of fashion's complex engagement with the great art and artifacts of Catholic faith and practice Since antiquity, religious beliefs and practices have inspired many of the masterworks of art. These works of art have, in turn, fueled the imagination of fashion designers in the 20th ...Show more
In America - A Lexicon of Fashion by Andrew Bolton; Amanda Garfinkel; Jessica Regan; Stephanie Kramer
Category: Fashion
Articulating eight decades of American style through the emotive language of clothing--from celebrated designers that established the modern legacy of sportswear to emerging creatives shaping the future of fashion in the United States In America: A Lexicon of Fashion establishes a modern vocabulary of A ...Show more
Karl Lagerfeld - A Line of Beauty by Andrew Bolton; Tadao Ando (Contribution by); Amanda Harlech (Contribution by); Mellissa Huber (Contribution by); Kai Marcel (Contribution by); Loic Prigent (Contribution by)
Category: Fashion
A compelling look at the aesthetic and historical significance of Lagerfeld's work - from his elegantly tailored pieces for Chanel to the witty, playful ensembles that came to define the Lagerfeld brand. This publication is the first to present an insightful overview of Karl Lagerfeld's (1933-2019) art ...Show more
Manus x Machina - Fashion in an Age of Technology by Andrew Bolton; Nicholas Alan Cope
Category: Home and Garden
A stunning look at the paradoxical relationship between the artisanal and the technological in fashion The complex and often ambiguous relationship between the hand crafted and the machine made is examined in this intriguing look at the ever-changing world of fashion and taste. Manus x Machina traces st ...Show more
Punk Chaos to Couture by Andrew Bolton
Category: Fashion | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Secondhand. Since its origins in the 1970s, punk has had an incendiary influence on fashion. With its eclectic mixing of stylistic references, punk effectively introduced the postmodern concept of bricolage not only into directional ready-to-wear but also into the elevated precincts of the haute coutur ...Show more