Trained as an artist, Irving Penn began photographing for "Vogue" in the 1940s and went on to become an accomplished and versatile image-maker. This retrospective showcases 90 images covering the whole of his career.

Irving Penn: A Career in Photography

Arts & Photography

Westerbeck, Colin

Eisler, Colin

Miyake, Issey

Carpenter, Edmund

Jankauskas, Jennifer

Rosamond Bernier

Martin, Harrison

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Bulfinch

The synergy between photographer Irving Penn and designer Issey Miyake is captured in this tour of Miyake's clothing across his long career and working relationship with Penn.

Irving Penn Regards the Work of Issey Miyake: Photographs 1975-1998

Holborn, Mark

Kitamura, Midori

PENN,Irving

Graphic Design

Bulfinch Pr

Issey Miyake’s Pleats Please collections were launched in 1993. Made from single pieces of high quality 100% polyester fabric, Pleats Please clothing is innovative in its process: the clothes are first cut and sewn together from fabric that is nearly three times larger than the finished item of clothing, then sandwiched between sheets of paper and hand fed into a pleats machine. From tube dresses to cardigans, skirts, shirts, or elastic-waisted pants: the clothes emerge with permanent pleats. This industrial process allows both texture and form to be created at the same time. Vertical pleating is used to create different effects and architectural shapes.Pleats Please clothes are very functional and practical; they store easily, travel well, require no ironing, can be machine-washed, and dry within hours. Shapes are simple, and the colors and prints diverse (a set of basic colors is available each season, plus seasonal colors and prints). The clothes’ simple beauty, comfort, lightness, and ease of care have changed the way many women all over the world dress.For the first time, the story of this revolutionary line of clothing is being told. The concept of Pleats Please Issey Miyake is explored through a vast array of texts and images, tracing its journey from inception, through material development, to its public reception. The explanation of its evolution includes, also for the first time, a section not only revealing the creation of the original thread―but also the pleating process!

Pleats Please

Taschen America, LLC

Book by Miyake, Issey, Miyake, Issei

Issey Miyake: Making Things

Chandes, Herve

Fondation Cartier

Sato, Kazuko

Meier, Raymond

Scalo Verlag Ac

Perfect condition, like new, still has plastic wrap. English &amp; Japanese edition. 1983 publication, soft cover, full color, black and white photos and illustrations. Fashion collectible, great celebrity photos and narrative.

Issey Miyake Body Works (Japanese Edition)

Reference

Marcus Leatherdale

Shozo Tsurumoto

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Shōgakkan

In this strikingly beautiful and revolutionary work, Kawase has taken a fresh approach to flower arranging, demonstrating through breathtaking color photographs his universally appealing style of bringing nature indoors. Often misunderstood as a static art form, its rules frozen by generations of teachers, Japanese flower arranging should in fact be a dynamic relationship between man and nature, with every arrangement holding within it infinite possibilities of form and statement. While based on a thorough knowledge of traditional techniques, Kawase's designs are liberated by his personal response to the natural environment. The arranger, in his view, is an artist, not tied down by the received way of doing things, but free to express himself. The object, ideally, is to create a form of a floral poetry. Hence the word "inspired" in the title: his aim being to inspire, to suggest new ways of designing with flowers. At the same time, though, he provides practical tips for beginners; explains the importance of using the right containers, and shares his own thoughts on what makes a particular arrangement eye-catching or graceful. Here, in a new, slightly smaller format than before is one of the most unusual and beautiful books of its kind ever published.

Inspired Flower Arrangements

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Kawase, Toshirō

Crafts & Hobbies

Kodansha USA

Styles and lifestyles are fast becoming uniform under labels and definitions of fashion, and as an industry and a cultural form. Total Living is the point of no return in a project which, step-by-step, develops strategies whose goal it is to offer an even more sophisticated and targeted lifestyle. It is a place where there are definitions for clothes, behavior modes, and even the atmoshpheres and spaces in which one moves. Assuming the contours of a landscape of the future, this scenario raises topical themes and problems connected with the overwhelming power of consumerism. Accompanying scholarly essays consider the thematic universes of fashion designers and brands; models of total living in 20th century history; references to total living in mass culture; living and eating; arty fashion and fashionable art; the world of fashion design; the languages of shopping; urban fashion districts; and advertising as a narrative. A fabulously rich and interconnected iconographic passage visually narrates the various forms and ramifications of total living today and in the recent past through a succession of utopias, life-projects, urban visions, architecture, special homes, stores, art galleries, museums, and editorial pages and ads from fashion and lifestyle magazines. Total Living shows life for the show that it is--or has become. Published in collaboration with Pitti Immagine.

Total Living: Art, Fashion, Design, Architecture, Communication

GURSKY, ANDREAS

Steiner, Dietmar

Pearlman, Chee

Flavin, Dan

Muschamp, Herbert

Beecroft, Vanessa

Ciavarella, Michele

De Cecco, Emanuela

Dirindin, Ricardo

Monelli, Roberto

Serenini, Michelle

Sudjic, Dejan

Bardi, Lina Bo

Mollino, Alberto

Ponti, Gio

Decorative Arts & Design

Charta

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