The Christmas List:
Christian Lacroix on Fashion by Patrick Mauries, Olivier Saillard , Christian Lacroix
Christian Lacroix is one of the most inventive and admired fashion designers in the world and brings that expertise to bear in this delightful imaginary museum of historic and contemporary fashion. Each featured piece—whether from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs collection or the Maison Lacroix—is distinguished by its cut, its detail, its color, and its texture; and the pieces are juxtaposed and photographed in a way that emphasizes their relationships across the centuries “This is not a retrospective, but my own look at the costume collections of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, from which I chose pieces from all eras, some never before exhibited. I then selected the strongest designs from the haute couture collections of the Maison Lacroix between 1987 and 2007, then arranged them according to themes—black and white, color, flowers, ethnic styles, and so forth—and linked them with pieces from the museum collection.”
$38 www.amazon.com Publisher: (Thames and Hudson April 28 2008).
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