leigh denis editor (2 resultados)

Trade Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition with covers showing light shelf wear/scuffing only with creaseless covers and spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Publisher's sticker on front. A great many full page color prints. 463 pages. Producing a book on fashion in the 1980s is not merely a question of immortalizing one of the most feverish periods of invention, creativity, and variety in our recent history. It also means providing a window on the increasingly pervasive advance of show-business society, and on the origins of the designer "total living" environment in which we are now permanently submerged. Ralph Lauren pillowcases, anyone? How about a sip of Absolut from my Calvin Klein Home champagne glasses? ~Excess: Fashion and the Underground in the 80s chronicles the achievements of the fashion establishment in Italy and the rest of the world via its protagonists and trends. It considers the who, what, where, when, and why of an industry that has become an economic phenomenon, with enormous influence on global culture and communication. It catalogues a world in which fashions by Armani, Versace, Valentino, Gianfranco Ferr, Fendi, Missoni, Moschino, Dolce & Gabbana, Fiorucci, Thierry Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Katherine Hamnett, Azzedine Alaa, Calvin Klein, and John Galliano appear in magazines like Vogue, Elle, Donna, Mondo Uomo, Harpers Bazaar, The Face, i-D, Interview, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Visionaire. It features work by 80s hotshot artists like Helmut Newton, Bruce Weber, Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, Andy Warhol, Jenny Holzer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Barbara Kruger, Gilbert & George, Pierre et Gilles, and Leigh Bowery.~Empirically organized as an index, Excess offers an indispensable point of reference for fashionistas, critics, and students. Rather than operating chronologically, it functions thematically, under such categories as Career Women, Sexy Women, American Gigolo, Night Clubbing, Wild Boys, Yuppies, and Graffiti. A special section curated by Peter de Potter is dedicated to the Neo 80s, featuring fashions by Jeremy Scott, Louis Vuitton, Berhard Willhelm, Balenciaga, Veronique Branquinho, and Bottega Veneta, as seen in the pages of Butt, Dazed & Confused, SleazeNation, Spin, Self Service, and Another Magazine. Additionally included are a series of appendices--equally balanced between mainstream and underground--which catalogue the new professions, new words, and new fashions.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. The first 2 years/volumes in 2 hardcover unworn buckram cloth library books. Moderate ex-library stamps to fronts, clean and unread looking copies otherwise. 300/304 pages. Mostly in English, some French text. Quite dated, historic, (and in some case scary) but fascinating articles include: A Case of Malignant Hypertension Treated with Prefrontal Leucotomy and Psychotherapy followed for Over Eight Years Group Psychotherapy in Bronchial Asthama, The Menstrual Cycle and its Disorders in Psychiatric Patients, Psychosomatic Aspects of Pre-Eclamptic Toxemia, Somatotypes and Psychosomatic Diseases, Peptic Ulcer and Alcoholism: A Statistical Study in Frequency - Behaviour - Personality Traits and Family Occurrence, The Sedation Threshold as an Objective Index of Manifest Anxiety in Psychoneurosis, Reproducible Psychogenic Attacks of Asthma, Socio-Psychological Aspects of Peptic Ulcer, A Rorschach Study of the Neurodermatoses, The Determinants of the Rate of Speech Output and Their Mutual Relations, General Metabolic Changes During Stressful Life Experiences in Man, Experiments upon the total Inhibition of Stammering by External Control and Some Clinical Results, Homosexuality and Chromosomal Sex, Etc.