Иностранная литература
Производитель Moleskine

Описание:
Elio Fiorucci is not simply a stylist but rather an entire world - an optimistic, adventurous, sexy, hyper-colourful world - that helped upset the very idea of fashion, pushing its limits into heterogeneous contexts. He is a gentle revolutionary, a unique mixture of Walt Disney and Marco Polo, capable of anticipating trends, ready to stack the shelves of his cult stores with the spirit of the time, in an ironic and scintillating manner. From the late 1960s onwards, he has constantly found himself at the heart of current trends, from the hippie folk style to disco glam, from hip hop graffiti to environmentalist vintage. Through his creations, this book highlights the communicative aspect of his way of making fashion. The astonishing list of his collaborations includes names such as Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Madonna, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Oliviero Toscani, Antonio Lopez, Keith Haring, Ettore Sottsass, Archizoom, and John Cage.

Описание:
Talented and audacious, with working-class origins, Westwood embodies, in the popular imagination, one of the iconic figures in the mythology of the western: the outlaw who has managed to give the sheriff the slip and earn honour and respect from the community. A rebel by chance rather than by choice, a conservative revolutionary in the tradition dating back to the suffragette movement, Dame Vivienne represents quintessential Britishness strongly rooted in culture. Although she is the ‘queen of punk’ with a particular interest in philosophy and the painting of bygone days, a social activist and aesthete who loves to delve into the past, she constantly and inexplicably finds herself in the vanguard. In an account that starts from the creation of fifteen garments and accessories, this book pinpoints references to past times and art history, together with aesthetic and philosophical elements. After the ready-mades of the 1960s, in which she made use of mass-produced clothes, took them apart, cut them up and then mixed them together ? reflecting the growing fusion between art and fashion ? Westwood was able to indulge her intellectual curiosity with the help of books and pictures. She did not sketch her models on paper, but created them directly using the moulage technique on a small dressmaker’s dummy or even herself, working around the figure, so that the final result was the modification of the body’s shape, with radical structural alterations and asymmetric cuts.

Описание:
A little book redesigning the shape and the role of the chair, adapting it to different people, personalities and body features. Interior design, illustration, comics and sociology all in one book. It all started, with a beige Moleskine in a bookshop in Rome. It's curious how many designers design chairs, so many chairs, but nobody seems to think about the characters who are going to use them. I liked the idea that by slightly modifying the legs, backrest, seat, I would be able to fit it to the person who'd sit on it.