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The Fashion Book

By: Richard Martin Alice Mackrell Melanie Rickey Angela Buttolph Suzy Menkes
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714841188
ISBN-13: 9780714841182
Released: 30 Apr 2001
RRP: £6.95
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Amazing Fashion book A-Z - By: J. Volbeda, 08 Jul 2006
An amazing good Fashion book! A-Z of fashion icons, photographers, models, designers, etc. Everyone that is in the fashion world well known! I loved looking through the book as I didn't know every single person mentioned in it! It's a must buy if you are interested/in to fashion!
The Most Ambitious Fashion Summary Ever - By: Donald Mitchell, 25 Aug 2004
This is the Reader's Digest Condensed version of the history of fashion over the last 150 years. Unlike Reader's Digest, this book succeeds in capturing the essence in amazing kernals of elegance, curve, design, & motion. Everyone who loves fashion should have this book. There is simply no substitute for it, & you will have many hours of pleasure looking at its exciting images & reading the descriptions. The book is a great value for its price, as well, which will help make it available to more people.

The book is in an unusual format, one page each for 500 icons, models, fashion & accessory designers, make-up artists, hairdressers, retailers, illustrators, & photographers done in alphabetical order. Each page typicallly has one person (a few have two), with one image, & one brief textual summary of the person's work.

It is an amazing challlenge to capture alll of a person's work in one image, & some great successes occurred. Some of my favorites were Madonna, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Harry Winston, Naomi Campbell, Coco Chanel, Noel Coward, & Rudi Gernreich.

On the other hand, some of the old black & white images did not reproduce well. Some of the worst examples are Antoine (a hairdresser with a photograph of Josephine Baker's hair), Maria-Louise Bruyere (a designer), Christian Dior, Max Factor, Barbara Goalen (a model), Gucci, & Hermes. In many cases, these choices appear to have been influenced by the desire to have the facing pages converse with one another. So you will see echoes of design, line, & style in these ways. I appreciate that effort (which is often quite eloquent), but it should not slight the individual whose work is being portrayed. I graded the book down one star for the compromises made here not working well in too many cases.

After you have finished reading & enjoying this book many times, I suggest that you think about where else it would be helpful to have a similar work in your life. Perhaps a scrapbook containing photographs of alll of your friends who have something in common would be a possibility. You could write a brief text about each. This could greatly add to your pleasure in remembering these friends, & perhaps expand their interaction when they see how you have put them together.

Keep to the essence, but be bold!

FASHION BIBLE! - By: , 17 Nov 2003
This book is a fantastic coffee table book. It's stylish contempary layout is very simple & informative. The book is laced with excellent enspiring pictures & photos by famous photographers, designers, makeup artists etc! JUST FANTASTIC, ITS A MUST HAVE !
If you love fashion, you'll love this !! - By: , 05 Nov 2000
If you're as mad as i am about fashion, then you'll love this book! This book covers everything from the true British designers to world renowned Fashion Gods!! The photos are very classy, & the layout is very stylish !! In alphabetical order, the book is very easy to use. A definate must have for any Fashion Student.