The Next Edition To The Coffee Table
New York fashion week just wrapped up and now everyone is walking around posting pictures that they took on their newly-purchased Canons/Nikons and thinking that they want to become clothing designers, bloggers, stylists and fashionistas. If you run in the trendy circles of the major cities and are reading this post, statistics show that you either fall into one of these categories or know at least 3 people who fall into one or more of the aforementioned clubs. Now that the norms have been established, it’s time to add a new book to your coffee table of “Oh, that’ just something I picked up a while back” books.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is a retrospective about the fashion, design and life of the late Alexander McQueen. “Focusing on the most iconic and acclaimed designs of his prolific career, this stunning book examines McQueen’s inimitable technical virtuosity and its subversion of traditional tailoring and dressmaking practices. The book also focuses on the highly sophisticated narrative structures found in McQueen’s collections and in his astonishing and extravagant runway presentations, which suggested the most avant-garde installation and performance art.” Written by the people who knew him best, this book is poised to give readers the most true to life depiction of the man that brought us iconic designs and physics-defying shoes.
Side note: “Andrew Bolton is Curator and Harold Koda is Curator in Charge at The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tim Blanks is contributing editor of Style.com and Susannah Frankel is fashion editor of The Independentnewspaper.”
This summer when the burgers have been consumed and the wine spritzers/mint juleps are ushering in the bourgeoisie conversations of fashion, art, expression, religion and post-modern neo-self-introspective thought…impress your friends with this one.
Alexander McQueen:Savage Beauty is available for pre-order now on Amazon.
