Collection of essays about Virgil Ablo, a book about the style of artists and three other novelties of the season
Terry Newman, "Legendary Artists and the Clothes they Wore"
Fashion journalist Terry Newman wrote a book about how artists dress. Legendary Artists and the Clothes they Wore (Legendary Artists and the Clothes they Wore) includes about fifty stories. There is, for example, a chapter devoted to those who are difficult to imagine without a hat (René Magritte and Bruce Nauman). There are also profiles on Jean-Michel Basquiat and Frida Calo, David Hockney and Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman and Marina Abramovic. Among Russian artists, Newman is particularly interested in the style of Alexander Rodchenko.
Andrew Bolton "Camp: Notes on Fashion"
In early May, an important fashion event took place - Met Gala. It was preceded by the opening of the exhibition, which this year is dedicated to camping. The thematic catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is released in two parts, packed in a soft pink box, which reminds of the Laduree cakes. The first book is dedicated to the history of the phenomenon and tells the story of King Louis XIV, Oscar Wilde and Susan Sontag's essay of 1964. In the second part, Andrew Bolton, chief curator of the Museum of the Costume Institute, discusses how the camp influenced high fashion, citing examples from the collections of Franco Moschino, Carl Lagerfeld, Versace, Celine, and Off-White.
Virgil Abloh, "Figures of Speech
Virgil Ablo is a human steamer: everything he touches becomes a loud info source. Take his suit for Serena Williams, his carpet for IKEA and a bottle of water for Evian, for example (and we're not talking about his work at Off-White and Louis Vuitton). On June 10, the Museum of Modern Art in Chicago opens an exhibition dedicated to Ablo. Also, the museum will release a collection catalog, with which we plan to spend days near the seaside. In addition to Virgil's work over the past twenty years, the book will include essays by architect Rem Koolhaas, journalist Lou Stoppard and exhibition curator Michael Darling.
Charles James, "The Couture Secrets of Shape"
The last year has been marked by a remarkable interest in Charles James. Such attention is associated with the release of the film "Ghostly Thread", which last year received six nominations for the "Oscar". The film tells the story of a fictional character, Reynolds Woodcock, whose image is partially written off from James. Valerie Steele's book, the chief curator of the Fashion Technology Institute Museum, is less artistic, but after reading it it it becomes obvious how many ideas Charles James gave to modern fashion. For example, the designer was one of the first to use lightning on dresses. And his famous blown jackets are prototypes of modern down jackets.
Bill Cunningham, "Fashionable Ascent"
Bill Cunningham is a legendary photographer of The New York Times who, without suspecting it, invented the street-style newsreel genre. He died in 2016, leaving his relatives not only an impressive photo archive worth a million dollars but also secret memoirs - in winter in the publishing house "MIF" they translated into Russian. Cunningham's fashionable ascent is a departure from a strict religious family that does not accept the world of fashion, and moving to New York, a job as a storekeeper in a department store and design hats, a service in the U.S. Army and the first secular parties: especially valuable that Cunningham talks about his life as honestly and wittily as possible.