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- The Snippy World
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Michael Roberts is "the Jean Cocteau of the fashion world" wrote the celebrated New Yorker editor Tina Brown in 1997, welcoming her new fashion editor to the most prestigious magazine in the world. Having already served for many years as a style editor (The London Sunday Times, Vanity Fair) and having produced numerous illustrations, photographs, paintings and columns of fashion criticism for various media, M.R. had already had his name coupled with Cocteau's, but his striking visual style is collected here for the first time. From evocative pen-and-ink sketches to acrylic paintings to intensely witty New Yorker covers created from cut paper, these works capture the fads, foibles, and fashionability of our times. Anna Wintour, Editor in Chief of American Vogue, in her introduction to "this beautiful book" calls them "fiendishly accurate satire." And the shoe guru Manolo Blahnik writes, "His drawings grasp fashion moments like a photo could never do." That a major part of the book was created through the painstaking method of paper collage especially appeals to the internationally famed fashion designer John Galliano. He writes, "I have avidly collected his work, along with doing my own collages, for years, and I am honored to be a part of this book.
Grace Coddington
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- Bold & Beautiful
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Last remaining first edition stock.
There are certain times in certain places when particular places come to the fore. Those times and those faces demand to be documented. Bold & Beautiful is the result of this impulse for social documentation that has led Ezra Petronio, Editor-in-Chief of Paris based fashion and arts magazine, Self Service, across borders, organically following the intricate web of the magazine’s ‘extended family tree’, attempting through his photographs to reveal the creative forces who share and shape Self Service magazine’s cultural landscape.
Over a few years, hundreds of people slipped through our doors to pose in front of the flash of his original 1970s Polaroid camera — intimate moments, one-on-one conversations, resulting in the revelation of each subject’s inner beauty and stature, a subtle combination of genuine sincerity, truth, and an inevitable touch of glamour. Not a pre-meditated grouping, but rather an organically unraveled network of people: designers, musicians, artists, photographers, writers, thinkers, people who make up our cultural world — establishment and avant-garde, artistic community and fashionable society, old friends, new friends and friends of friends. Unsuspecting members of the cultural community to which they all belong, they reflect individually and collectively the very essence of today’s creative soul.
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- Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue
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Grace Coddington's work has danced along the cutting edge of fashion for over 30 years. Abandoning a highly lucrative career as a leading model on the sixties London scene alongside such swinging contemporaries as Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, Coddington signed on in 1968 as a junior fashion editor at British Vogue. She quickly established herself on the other side of the camera, coordinating photoshoots with Cecil Beaton, Sarah Moon, David Bailey, Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin.
A close working relationship with royal photographer Norman Parkinson produced a series of startlingly vibrant location shoots that have come to be considered classics. At British Vogue, Coddington also introduced the sweeping narrative epic, a familiar feature of her work nowadays at American Vogue, where she has been creative director for the past fourteen years. Grace is not only a collection of Coddington's greatest work, it is a visual reminiscence and celebration of her life in fashion.
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- The Catwalk Cats
- For over 20 years, Grace Coddington and Didier Malige have lived together with their family of cats while working in fashion. This book records their relationship through photographs (Malige's) and drawings (Coddington's) that entertainingly document their private lives and their work through the eyes of their cats: Henri, an old school catnipaddicted surfing chartreuse; his sister Coco, a couture-obsessed chartreuse on a sashimi diet, and her pal Baby, who doesn't quite share Coco's discipline and will, sadly, never be a sample size. Then there's Puff, a mixed up long-hair from Harlem whose curiosity (anyone for fortune telling at Dave?) hasn't killed him yet; and Bart, the Persian youngster who would rather sit roof top terrace than front row. The Catwalk Cats, a visual diary introduced by Puff, gives us four seasons in the life of this fabulous furry brigade: the collections, the campaigns, the catfights. At once delightful and dishy, it is both a convincing argument about the fundamental similarities between felines and fashionistas, and a wonderful and moving meditation on love and family.
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