Top Fashion Books
21 August 2007
Countdown of the best books on Fashion
1)The Fashion Book, published by Phaidon
2)20th Century Fashion: 100 Years of Style by Decade and Designer, in Association with Vogue. By Linda Watson, published by Firefly Books.
3)The world of Coco Chanel, published by Thames & Hudson
4) Fashion NOW 1 & 2, by Terry Jones and Susie Rushton, published by Taschen
5)Fashion and its social agendas Class, Gender and Identity in Clothing. By Diana Crane, published by The University of Chicago Press.
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Just heard about a stunning book coming out in October: "Una Grande Storia Italiana, Valentino Garavani" published by Taschen (of course), with fashion legends Suzy Menkes (the feared and revered fashion editor of the IHT) and Matt Tyrnauer (Vanity Fair) typing away on the beloved Italian couturier. Like anything fabulous and desirable it is a limited edition (2,000 copies signed by Valentino himself) and a bit on the pricey side… But the wow effect is guarantee…
This one just makes me want to relax on the couch and calm down the entire room, perfect for the coffee table:
Hiroshi Sugimoto
by Kerry Brougher & David Elliott
Proposal for the art installation,
Indus Script Decipherment as "ART" : The Greatest "ART" Happening of the 21st Century Art World . . .
1. A continuous power point projection on Indus Script Decipherment and Indus Valley Civilization.
2. Illustrating AHMUVAN on the wall and several assemblage on the floor made by found objects.
3. Site-specific Indus Sign drawings & sculptures.
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4. The artist as AHMUVAN.
5. Several paintings illustrating the Indus signs and Indus Sign Sequences will be executed.
6. Two drawings of constellations,Draco and Ursa major, drawn on the floor.
7. Lectures by the ARTIST on Indus Script Decipherment as " ART ".
8. " ART- MAN - LANGUAGE - COSMOS " - A lecture panel proposed by the Artist in which Artists & Scholars may deliver their Ideas on creativity and symbols of linguistic communication.
9. MARK ROTHKO - WILLIAM DE KOONING - JACKSON POLLOCK - The Greatest Trinity from the epicentre of the UNIVERSE - an illustrational homage by the artist acknowledging their influence in his creative process as an artist.
10. Art ideas of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, William De Kooning, Paul Klee, Kandinsky,Carl Andre,Joseph Beuys, written on the wall predicting the future development of Global Art in the 21st Century.
11. American Minimalist Art and Indus Script Art - The structural parallelism, an on the spot demonstration using SQUARE bricks proposed by the artist, which can be assembled by the audience.
12. AHMUVAN:http://murugan.org/research/valluvan.htm
N.S.VALLUVAN
ARTIST&INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR
nsvalluvanart@yahoo.co.in