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Vision of Design : Istvan Orosz by Jianping He (ed)
Category: Design | Series: Vision of Design
Vision of Design is a series of ten books featuring an extensive range of international graphics designers. Curate to bring some of the most powerful statements in graphic design to the masses, the series boldly tackles designers whose works are shaped by their context. Each book focuses on an outstandi ...Show more
Vision of Design : Michel Bouvet by Jianping He (ed)
Category: Design | Series: Vision of Design
Vision of Design is a series of ten books featuring an extensive range of international graphics designers. Curate to bring some of the most powerful statements in graphic design to the masses, the series boldly tackles designers whose works are shaped by their context. Each book focuses on an outstandi ...Show more
Vision of Design : Studio Boot by Jianping He (ed)
Category: Design | Series: Vision of Design
Vision of Design is a series of ten books featuring an extensive range of international graphics designers. Curate to bring some of the most powerful statements in graphic design to the masses, the series boldly tackles designers whose works are shaped by their context. Each book focuses on an outstandi ...Show more
Visual Conversations by David Bramston
Category: Graphic Design | Series: Basics Product Design
Vogue On: Coco Chanel by Bronwyn Cosgrave
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
Hailed as 'the most influential female designer of the twentieth century', Coco Chanel pioneered classic easy-to-wear fashion for the modern woman. She arrived on the fashion scene when feathers, lace and ostentatious beads were favourites, and proceeded to re-invent couture using new materials, like je ...Show more
Vogue on: Coco Chanel by Bronwyn Cosgrave
Category: LIFESTYLE AND FASHION | Series: Vogue on Designers Ser.
A Vogue insiders’ view of the world of Coco Chanel. This essential companion to the world of Coco Chanel traces her iconic designs and glamorous, racy life, from the opening of her Chanel Boutique in Paris – still a destination store today – and the launch of her first perfume, Chanel No. 5, in 1921, to ...Show more
Vogue on Cristobal Balenciaga by Susan Irvine
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
In 1936, Cristobal Balenciaga opened a fashion house in Paris, after fleeing the Spanish civil war; within a couple of seasons he had raised fashion to the level of art. Christian Dior called Balenciaga 'the master of us all', while Coco Chanel claimed that he alone was 'a couturier in the truest sense ...Show more
Vogue on Gianni Versace by Charlotte Sinclair
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
Gianni Versace created a fashion house that, as Vogue declared, defined late twentieth-century glamour, invented the supermodel and sanctioned in the public consciousness a supremely self-assured feminine sexuality.' His debut line in 1978 was instantly successful; in the Eighties, his extravagant desig ...Show more
Vogue on Giorgio Armani by Kathy Phillips
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
Armani's style is elegance and sensual simplicity incarnate. 'Few names in fashion conjure so distinctive a look,' said Vogue. For Armani, design has always been about an easy, timeless grace, not constantly changing trends; clothes meant to compliment the body, not merely cover it. With his careful rem ...Show more
Vogue on Hubert De Givenchy by Drusilla Beyfus
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
The handsome, aristocratic Hubert de Givenchy blended the hallowed traditions of haute couture with a modern sensibility. For 40 years he focused always on purity of line, but combined an artist's eye with a keen entrepreneurial mind. His innovative 1952 debut collection made its mark by presenting sepa ...Show more
Vogue on Ralph Lauren by Kathleen Baird-Murray
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
Ralph Lauren's designs vividly embody the American Dream and he has risen to become his country's foremost fashion designer. His visionary ability has created a multi-billion-dollar brand, still very successful almost 50 years on. His genius lies in his innate skill for interpreting key cultural element ...Show more
Vogue on Vivienne Westwood by Linda Watson
Category: Fashion | Series: Vogue on Designers
Secondhand. A provocateur, radical thinker and instigator of the most important sartorial statements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Vivienne Westwood is a fearless nonconformist with a relentless passion for tradition. From the mini crini, the liberty corset and the rocking-horse shoe to ...Show more