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In this timely book, three noted fashion historians examine the
global transformations in the fashion industry today, and identify
the challenges of the future. Since the dawn of designer fashion at
the beginning of the 20th century, the role and position of the
designer has drastically changed. This book addresses how the
interpretation of creativity, authorship, craft, and innovation
have evolved in this new context, and asks what role designers play
in a globalised and digitised fashion world.
This beautifully illustrated book presents the permanent collection
of Antwerp's renowned fashion museum (MoMu), and offers an overview
of the most important protagonists of Belgian fashion from the
1970s to today. It includes photographs of the exhibitions which
took place at the museum between 2002 and 2018, and is supplemented
by a selection from the museum's historical collection of clothing
from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Fashion Game Changers traces radical innovations in Western fashion
design from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.
Challenging the traditional silhouettes of their day, fashion
designers such as Madeleine Vionnet and Cristobal Balenciaga began
to liberate the female body from the close-fitting hourglass forms
which dominated European and American fashion, instead enveloping
bodies in more autonomous garments which often took inspiration
from beyond the West. As the century progressed, new generations of
avant-garde designers from Rei Kawakubo to Martin Margiela further
developed the ideas instigated by their predecessors to defy
established notions of femininity in dress, creating space between
body and garment. This way, a new relationship between body and
dress emerged for the 21st century. With over 200 images and
commentaries from an international range of leading fashion
curators and historians, this beautifully illustrated book
showcases some of the most revolutionary silhouettes and innovative
designs of over 100 years of fashion.
Since the nineties, Walter Van Beirendonck has been fascinated with
masks. They change your identity, invoke a certain atmosphere and
have an instant impact. Many artists, among whom are Andre Breton,
Pablo Picasso and even Brueghel, have been influenced by them.
Power Mask - The Power of Masks elaborates on the many different
aspects of masks: the link between Western art and African masks,
the supernatural aspect, rituals about masks, masks in fashion or
as a fetish...Walter Van Beirendonck is "a truly engaged visionary
and a passionate designer, artist and teacher." - Jurgi Persoons,
fashion designer. "Walter Van Beirendonck succeeded where I have
failed; he turned me into a muscle-man instantly. He is a true
artist and there's not many of them around." - Bono, lead singer of
U2. "Come along and take a ride into the crazy helter-skelter,
inside-out, upside-down world of Walter Van Beirendonck. Colours
and shapes reach psychedelic dimensions to charm and astound you."
- Stephen Jones, milliner. This book accompanies an expo in the
Wereldmuseum (World Museum) Rotterdam, from 1 September 2017 until
7 January 2018.
Olivier Theyskens s refined sensibilities earned him international
acclaim as the dark prince of late 1990s couture. From his first
saturnine collections, to his new vision for Rochas, to his
patterns and textiles at Nina Ricci, to his years designing for
Theyskens Theory, the designer has proved himself a master of
couture, semi-couture, and pret-a-porter. Celebrated for his fine
tailoring, romantic silhouettes, and gothic palette, Theyskens
transforms each house he helms. This distinctive volume charts the
twenty-year development of an extraordinary aesthetic vision,
rendered across countries, cultures, and the shifting sands of the
fashion landscape. Newly commissioned texts connect the threads of
the Belgian-born artist s diverse practice. Drawings created for
the publication accompany photography from each period of his
career. At both Rochas and Nina Ricci, the designer crafted
ethereal garments with unorthodox silhouettes, mixing sheer fabrics
and old-world bustles with subtly subversive punk elements.
Theyskens then broke ground in 2011 with his trailblazing
partnership, Theyskens Theory. With a special focus on the designer
s return to the runway at the head of his own line, this is the
definitive work on a fashion visionary who, like the girls he
designs for, changes form, but walks in beauty wherever he goes.
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