Icon-Icon offers the ultimate selection of books to capture fashion and design as a whole – or when fashion resonates like total art it is in some really beautiful books, to give away for Christmas 2021.
Christmas 2021: The Beautiful Books To Understand What Fashion Is
In its ambition to provide its readers with a comprehensive understanding of this total art of fashion, Icon-Icon has selected the most relevant and beautiful books on the subject.
But fashion is a multiple practice that calls on multiple talents – like an opera, it is in concert that the creator, the fashion editor, the magazine, the parade, the illustration make fashion resonate in the four corners of the world. world. So how do you understand what fashion is?
To do this, Icon-Icon has gathered in its shopping section a multitude of books that rarely shed light on fashion as a whole.
And it all starts with a fashion designer …
The Beautiful Books That Explain Fashion Design
If the history of fashion is to be discovered here, Icon-Icon offers to delve into the life trajectories of fashion designers.
These visionaries who, through the cut, the beautiful and the avant-garde, revolutionized the relationship with the body, style and fashion of each and everyone.
These names which today resonate as the epitome of luxury were first of all those of people who knew how to capture this famous spirit of the times. Names like Coco Chanel and her understated luxury that has defined even French elegance. Legendary Creators – From Jeanne Lanvin to Stella McCartney, a reference work …
Alaïa and her silhouettes cut with a line. McQueen and those enchanting visions. Prada and his geek-chic, Brino, Azzaro, Dries Van Noten, Gucci, Valentino, Worth, Cardin and Mugler! The designers discover themselves in this very beautiful book.
The illustrated and living history of Christian Dior couture. Or how a shy, esthete and well-inspired man succeeded in revolutionizing fashion in just ten years… To leave the house of Dior to the world as a legacy!
So many names and lives, whose history is intrinsically linked to that of the beautiful and the revolutionary, can be discovered here.
For them, creation thus begins with a drawing. Fashion designs … Those of the great couturiers or the illustrations which, in magazines before the advent of photography, propagated their vision in capitals all over the world. Here is what is given to discover in particular in the work of the great historian of fashion Cally Blackman, 100 Years of Fashion Illustration.
The Beautiful Books That Explain Iconic Fashion Pieces
Fashion as total art is also and above all a story of iconic products. Icon-Icon has thus selected the very beautiful books that allow you to dive into the fascinating and current history of the most emblematic pieces in the history of fashion and luxury.
Hermès bags, Kelly and Birkin in the lead. The Hermès square, too. Dior hats, or Roger Vivier shoes.
Roger Vivier, he who, among other things, shod the Queen of England on the day of her coronation; forged the Dior silhouette with the comma heel, then later helped define the Yves Saint Laurent look. With the Belles de Vivier in particular… Roger Vivier, who once again put on Brigitte Bardot with thigh-high boots that have become cult!
From these not-so-optional accessories, Icon-Icon has also chosen a book that looks back on the chic, mysterious and eminently glamorous aura of dark glasses.
Also, that of the sneakers! A true object of contemporary worship.
The Beautiful Books That Explain Fashion Communication
Fashion as total art is still its staging. Fashion shows are indeed unmissable events today. A veritable jubilant and extravagant spectacle, run by the whole world – the parade is the narrative framework of a collection, more generally of the house.
From the hushed and ultra-confidential beginnings in the plush salons of Parisian houses, to the spectacular staging of recent decades … The selection of beautiful books offers to capture the phenomenon of fashion shows through images, zoom, ‘explanations emanating from the actors of the community.
The Chanel house which went so far as to launch a rocket under the nave of the Grand Palais. Prada, Vivienne Westwood… Dior fashion shows, including the legendary arrival of the Orient Express in 1998, under the reign of John Galliano. Here are so many events that have changed the face of fashion – deciphered in these beautiful books.
In this great world of fashion, then comes the crucial role of Fashion editors. They who build the stylistic and aesthetic imagination through fashion magazines … Who are they? What do they do ? This selection of beautiful books, sometimes autobiographical, thus retraces the journey and the unique aesthetic vision of these fashion editors. Starting with that of Diana Vreeland!
Defining fashion through her exploration and taste for experimentation, extravagance and a hint of opulence – Diana Vreeland commissioned the greatest photographers, from Richard Avedon to David Bailey, the memorable images of ’60s fashion… Youthquake is her! With, often in the spotlight, the sculptural Verushcka!
The 90s and 2000s were undoubtedly marked by the Franca Sozzani revolution at Vogue Italy. It has rarely linked luxury, fashion, and the politico-social problems of our time! “Fashion is a mirror of the era in which we live. why should the magazine be disconnected from reality? “.
Precisely, the Fashion and Philosophy section built by Icon-Icon offers to understand fashion, grasp its nuances, its place and its global implication in the life of the Company through the studies, and the works of intellectuals and philosophers. Jean Baudrillard, or even Charles Pépin …
They understood the power of fashion. Because less futile than they seem, the rag revolutions have literally accompanied social movements. Releases of morals and new rights. From women’s rights to the great history of civil and social rights of minorities … Everyone has found in fashion, and the way to wear clothes, an eloquent means of expressing their own individuality …
Finally, Icon-Icon’s Fashion & Accessories selection is teeming with books as beautiful as they are interesting – making an ideal gift for this Christmas 2021!