Celebrating twenty years of an agenda-setting powerhouse of contemporary style, design, & popular culture. Celebrated for discovering & promoting new artists, musicians, designers, & filmmakers, Dazed & Confused magazine has been a barometer of popular style & culture since its founding in London in 1991 by Jefferson Hack & the photographer Rankin. Quickly renowned for its controversial attitude, Dazed represented a new wave in the British style press, bringing together figures from different creative fields & eras to produce extraordinary interviews & develop artwork for the magazine. From David Bowie to Bjork, Harmony Korine to David Lynch, Kate Moss to Stockhausen, & Rankin to Thom Yorke, the roster of the magazines subjects & contributing artists alone is a record of the evolution of contemporary pop culture. Edited by its founders, this daringly illustrated book immortalizes the magazines most enduring features, from legendary photo shoots & iconic covers to controversial interviews, & supplements them with outtakes, ephemera from the editors offices, original artwork, & contributions from the photographers, designers, & artists behind it all. ...

Fashion Jewellery is created with the catwalk & couture in mind, characterized by its creativity & originality. It is arguably the most exciting field in fashion today. Arranged by designer, this is the first book to showcase contemporary catwalk & couture jewellery, profiling 33 international fashion jewellers who combine traditional techniques & ultra-modern methods to create this new style of jewellery. Amongst the stunning images of work shown are collaborations with leading fashion designers & brands such as Lanvin, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander Mc Queen & Comme des Garons. 370 Illustrations 208 Pages ISBN978 1856696555 ...

The comprehensive book on the visionary Hussein Chalayan, one of the most innovative, experimental, & conceptual fashion designers working today. Internationally acclaimed, Hussein Chalayan is known for his inventive use of materials & integration of new technology into his designs. He is also celebrated for putting the creative process itself on view. Some of his best-known designs include a paper dress that can be folded into an envelope & airmailed, armchair covers that transform into dresses, & a coffee table that reveals itself to be a wooden skirt. Original & groundbreaking, his designs are also pretty & modern, & this book explores that continuum. Featuring Chalayans complete body of fashion & creative workincluding his installations, videos, & photographsthis unique & beautiful volume is as thought-provoking as it is stunning & is sure to be coveted by fashion, art, & design connoisseurs. Hardcover 276 pages ISBN 978 0 8478 3386 3 ...

Paris Based Californian designer Rick Owens is primarily renowned for creating iconic leather jackets, cut to perfection & conveying his rebellious signature. Naska the name of SS12 Rick Owens presents crisp drapery, dark toned woven fabrics & exquisite leathers. A suggestion of timeless & borderless in pursuit of comfort. This seasons collection shows Rick obsessively steering his craft in such a unique & deeply personal direction that it amounts to a spiritual quest. ...

Called upon by designers, editors, photographers, & celebrities, stylists have a sixth sense for what is now & next in the fashion ether. Featuring sixteen of todays top tastemakers, Stylist focuses on these fashion insiders whose precocious sense for the next big thing often results in trends of global proportions. ...

One of the greats of Japanese fashion design, Yohji Yamamoto presented his first eponymous collection in Tokyo in 1977 before debuting at the Paris ready-to-wear shows in 1981. Yohji Yamamoto often employs oversized garments with fluid tailoring: usually focused on black as a staple colour Yohji Yamamoto's designs create new & interesting silhouettes for the body. Yohji Yamamoto is revered for creating elegant, masculine attire with over-sized silhouettes in unusual fabrics that challenges conventional fashion. This season, Yohji Yamamoto has created a collection that displayed his signature juxtaposition of relaxed silhouettes & tailored fits yet colour & pattern began to creep in with faux fur textures & animal prints. Every piece in the Yohji Yamamoto collection is timeless & transcends seasonal trends making it an essential wardrobe must-have. ...

Ann Demeulemeester creates a personal expression in her collection like no other. Intimately refined, her designs have been a slow & steady progression since her debut on the Paris fashion scene in 1992. Now with a successful menswear line & jewellery the Ann Demeulemeester establishment has never been stronger, or more highly regarded. Demeulemeesters collection expresses a self-exile in Africa as a major influence on her collection. The collection comes across was the idea of cultures interweaving: the cut & cloth of European clothes being slowly infected by orientalism & intangible mystery. Formal shawl-collared jackets & waistcoats layered over shirts & tunics. ...

New York Jewellery designer Erica Weiner is inspired by past & non-western civilizations. Her jewellery is made using vintage & salvaged materials & references traditional techniques in their craft. As a result, Weiners jewellery is full of character & charm. ...