La lente di Helmut Newton ha catturato l'essenza, l'eleganza, il potere, l'ammaliante sensualità e il fascino delle donne in una maniera inedita. Le sue storie raccontano storie che evocano desiderio, curiosità, emancipazione e che hanno lasciato un segno indelebile nel mondo dell'arte.

The first comprehensive and highly personal look into the work of Sacai, one of fashion’s most innovative and multidimensional houses. Since its founding in 1999, the fashion label Sacai has garnered a global fan base and praise from fashion industry titans including Karl Lagerfeld, Anna Wintour, and Suzy Menkes. Founder and designer Chitose Abe began her career working for Rei Kawakubo and Junya Watanabe at Comme des Garçons and has since perfected the collection of expressing her personal vision through fashion. Her ability to meld highly conceptual designs with timeless wearability has made Sacai one of the most sought-after brands in fashion today. Her complex designs resonate strongly and are inspired by familiar ideas made unique by her unexpected choice of fabrics, silhouettes, and proportions. Still holding a full stake in the company, she has maintained her creative vision by prioritizing detail and quality. This book provides an instructive look at the process of design from a designer who is comfortable with developing innovative approaches to fashion through an experimental signature style. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 photographs and in-depth essays by fashion journalists and collaborators all presented in A to Z format, readers are given access for the first time into the world of Sacai, one of the most covetable and multidimensional clothing lines in contemporary fashion.

This handsome volume chronicles the rise of the fashion house Chloé, a crucible of creativity for some of fashion’s most notable designers. The fashion brand Chloé may be sixty years old, but she still exudes a youthful elegance and femininity. As the first high-end Paris fashion house to sell exclusively ready-to-wear clothing, Chloé has since redefined its look for the modern woman with flattering colors, quality materials, and a series of must-have It bags. Chloé started in 1952 when Gaby Aghion invented the revolutionary idea of luxury prêt-à-porter, taking the craftsmanship of haute couture and making it available to a wider audience. Her focus on the beautiful yet wearable gave the line currency with chic young women. Born in Egypt in 1921 and moving to Paris when she was in her twenties, Aghion dressed some of the most fashionable and powerful women of her day, including Jackie O, Grace Kelly, and Brigitte Bardot. Her vision has always been maintained through the company’s extensive career. The company’s lively and fresh energy has been sustained through the decades partly because it seeks out new talent, including then-28-year-old designer Karl Lagerfeld, who started with the company in 1966. The book explores his career at Chloé, along with Martine Sitbon (in 1988), Stella McCartney, who joined Chloé when she was 26 (in 1997), and Phoebe Philo, who was responsible for Chloé’s major reinvention from 2001 to 2006, where she is credited for bringing a sensual and personal touch to the line. It is currently helmed by Clare Waight Keller, who previously reinvigorated the fashion line Pringle of Scotland. Chloé, in short, is the modern woman—refined and redefined.

La storia della fortunata maison Gucci: dal 1920, anno in cui Guccio Gucci fonda la prima bottega a Firenze, all'arrivo di Tom Ford nel 1990, che dona nuova linfa all'identità della Casa, alle più recenti collezioni di Frida Giannini. Il volume si sofferma sull'iconografia dello stile Gucci - il bambù, la doppia G, il morso del cavallo, la fascia verde e rossa - autentico 'dizionario' di un linguaggio creativo inconfondibile. Per ogni sezione, immagini delle più note campagne pubblicitarie, scatti inediti di grandi fotografi, ritratti delle celebrità che da sempre amano e scelgono lo stile Gucci. Vere icone di stile - la borsa con il manico di bambù o la mitica Jackie O, creata appositamente per Jackie Kennedy, solo per citarne alcune le creazioni di Gucci si elevano a strumenti sofisticati di una moda lussuosa, cifra di uno stile inimitabile.

A luxurious, slip-cased volume featuring more than 700 stunning illustrations, drawing together some of the most significant moments in fashion.