Dior Catwalk: The Complete Collections

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Assouline's hand-bound hardcover coffee table book celebrates America's beautiful and unique vineyards and takes you on a historical journey from 1955 to 2016. The Dior Catwalk Hardback book is a beautiful silver grey, perfect to balance your coffee table or console table. This coffee table book compiles in one place - for the first time ever - every Dior haute couture collection, including the ready-to-wear collections after the arrival of John Galliano (when ready-to-wear presentations took on a new importance), and the first two collections designed by creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri who was appointed in 2016.

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This aspirational coffee table book is packed with striking illustrations of the glamorous destination, tracing Aerin Lauder's heartwarming memories. Granted he is talented but other designers are also worth documenting, besides, I personally don't really like the creative direction of Dior since Galliano took the helm. A seminal figure during the Swinging Sixties, Quant is credited with harnessing contemporary youth culture and bringing the mini skirt to prominence. Serving as both Fashion Editor at Harper’s Bazaar and Editor-in-Chief at American Vogue, Vreeland was a force to be reckoned with. I honestly had not looked at woman's fashion - ( the designers and photographers ), in the same light - I have other artists, musicians and authors.

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Assouline's Chanel coffee table book celebrates the rich heritage, spirit and iconic designs of the renowned Parisian fashion house.

The book is also text-free and the photos are accompanied with captions revealing the dates of the various illustrated collections. Capturing all the highlights from the Victoria and Albert museum’s sell-out exhibition, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, this coffee table book takes a retrospective look at the House of Dior from its naissance in 1946 to its incarnation today. Dior was generous with his advice on all things, from style and how to dress (‘No elegant woman follows fashion blindly’, he once declared), to his insights into the creative process, invaluable for any budding designer. Channel your passion of sleep into the pages of this coffee table book, which whisk you through the bedrooms of queens, emperors, designers and decorators. Seven thematic chapters examine outstanding Dior characteristics, including the silhouette, the evening gown, and the eternal muse—the signature aspects of Dior that have continued to give the house unique distinction.

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Wir erkennen also, dass die Genialität des Hauses in der Wahl solcher Designer liegt, die es schaffen, klassisch zu bleiben, doch das Ganze stets im Jetzt zu verankern. Das Buch präsentiert uns nämlich nicht nur seine Erfolgsgeschichte, sondern - anhand der Arbeiten kongenialer Fotografen - auch, wie das Haus sich über Jahrzehnte dort behaupten konnte. It's written by 2004's Sommelier of the World Mr Enrico Bernado and comes housed in a traditional wooden wine box. The book presents the women who most influenced Slim’s life and work from Audrey Hepburn to Jackie Kennedy, Diana Vreeland and Marilyn Monroe. In 1947, Christian Dior’s first collection—his New Look—amazed the world, reset the boundaries of modern elegance after years of wartime austerity, and earned him immortality.Photo: Detail of the May evening gown in ivory organza, embroidered with dark and light green leaves and yellow, purple, fuchsia, pink, and white flowers.

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It shares the secrets of the Soho House way of doing things, from how to make people feel at home to how to nail home decor. To discover more coffee table book options, take a look at our range of art and design books at Fab Home Interiors.

Exploring the five central themes of the house - the camellia, jewellery, fragrances and makeup, and the little black dress - it follows each through the ages, unpicking how they've been rediscovered and reinvented through different generations of fashion designers. Rihanna released her first-ever coffee table book with Phaidon back in 2019, much to the delight of everyone in the GLAMOUR office. As well as his featuring McQueen's catwalk collections the book is illustrated with striking images by leading fashion photographers, and specially commissioned photographs that capture the breath-taking skill of his designs and awesome theatricality of his shows. An elegant collection of Christian Dior’s maxims on style, women and inspiration, presented in a fashionable gift format. Dior’s house perfumer, Francois Demachy, also uses flowers in his work, and champions biodiversity and female farmers.