CAlluring covers, limited editions, monographs. Anecdotes about legendary designers, works that explore the intersection of fashion, art and culture. Dedicated to fashionistas, but also to art, history and economics enthusiasts. The new ones collectible fashion books of 2024they are the chic and intelligent gift par excellence.
A gift to give to yourself for relaxing breaks winter holidays. An intriguing trick to make a good impression on those we love. Ranging across the vast range of recently released titleswalking between distant eras and contemporaneity. Between illustrious biographies and sociological analyses. Because behind the luxurious and apparently frivolous and distant veneer of the fashion world, our identity is hidden, in essence.
Fashion books from the 2024 collection
Don’t call them “just” fashion publications. The new ones fashion-themed worksare a dive into a kaleidoscopic universe, in which worlds, characters, techniques, economics, philosophical theorems touch and meet. In recent weeks, unpublished texts have arrived in bookstores to collect. Regardless of age and preferences, simply perfect gift ideas to give to yourself and your friends. To be read in one go, to leaf through with elegance or to show off nonchalantly at Christmas reunions.
All the Colors of Life by Iris Apfel
Speaking of style books, it’s called Colourful the flamboyant biographical volume by Iris Apfel released in Italian a few weeks ago by Hoepli. The testament book of one of the contemporary fashion icons most loved and long-lived (she passed away in March 2024 at the age of 102). Which is actually a real one scrap book emotional, essential to enter the mentality of a creative, irreverent, absolutely charismatic and unique woman.
From the first chapter “Everything is cause and effect” recalling his childhood and his parents’ first important life lessons. Up to the seventh and last, entitled “What color is happiness”. With his phrases/totemwhich indicate the way towards full self-realization and the analysis of what we really are. A triumph in 290 pages of photographic portraits, ethno-couture patterns, scraps of precious fabrics, timeless palettes. A splendid and opulent album of memorieswhich is also an invitation to create – why not? – your personal diary.
Prada, history of elegance, culture and business
Dedicated to those who know very little about fashion, and to those who know everything about fashion shows, collections and trends. Prada – A family storywritten by Tommaso Ebhardt and published by Sperling & Kupfer, is the ideal tool for answering profound questions actuality. But also about customs and economics, such as: what it means Milaneseness? How did the nylon revolution and the ugly chic aesthetic arise? And again: how a historic shop that sold trunks to Milanese people of the early twentieth century was transformed into a globally successful business. Listed on the stock exchange and resisting indomitable fashion business mega-groups?
The book Prada by Tommaso Ebhardt. (Photo Courtesy of Press Office)
Accompanied by a suggested soundtrack for each chapter, the 320-page book tells the story the saga of a bourgeois familyof an elegant and emancipated, intuitive and visionary woman, Miuccia. And of the fateful meeting (shrouded in legend) with the entrepreneur and sailing enthusiast Patrizio Bertelli. An unauthorized biography, which goes beyond the official narratives. To write it, explains the writer and journalist from Treviso in the podcast Voice to booksstudied hundreds of interviews and scoured the archives of a century of Italian history. We asked him what changed in him after writing this book.
«Miuccia revolutionized the aesthetic sense as well as the world of fashion, she transformed an industrial fabric into a backpack that made history. He brought the true, the ugly, the annoying into a world that was devoted to stereotypical beautyhas never lost an outsider approach despite having become an idolized icon” explains Tommaso Ebhardt “Telling it, allowed me to study a world that I didn’t know, that I believed to be frivolous and without meaning. When, however, Choosing your uniform every day with which to present yourself to the world is one of the founding moments of our personality».
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