Gods and kings

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More than two decades ago, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen arrived on the fashions scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. Both wanted to revolutionize fashion in a way no one had in decades. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with daring, sexy designs. They turned out landmark collections in mesmerizing, theatrical shows that retailers and critics still gush about and designers continue to reference.

Their approach to fashion was wildly different—Galliano began as an illustrator, McQueen as a Savile Row tailor. Galliano led the way with his sensual bias-cut gowns and his voluptuous hourglass tailoring, which he presented in romantic storybook-like settings. McQueen, though nearly ten years younger than Galliano, was a brilliant technician and a visionary artist who brought a new reality to fashion, as well as an otherworldly beauty. For his first official collection at the tender age of twenty-three, McQueen did what few in fashion ever achieve: he invented a new silhouette, the Bumster.

They had similar backgrounds: sensitive, shy gay men raised in tough London neighborhoods, their love of fashion nurtured by their doting mothers. Both struggled to get their businesses off the ground, despite early critical success. But by 1997, each had landed a job as creative director for couture houses owned by French tycoon Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH.

Galliano's and McQueen's work for Dior and Givenchy and beyond not only influenced fashion; their distinct styles were also reflected across the media landscape. With their help, luxury fashion evolved from a clutch of small, family-owned businesses into a $280 billion-a-year global corporate industry. Executives pushed the designers to meet increasingly rapid deadlines. For both Galliano and McQueen, the pace was unsustainable. In 2010, McQueen took his own life three weeks before his womens' wear show.

The same week that Galliano was fired, Forbes named Arnault the fourth richest man in the world. Two months later, Kate Middleton wore a McQueen wedding gown, instantly making the house the world's most famous fashion brand, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a wildly successful McQueen retrospective, cosponsored by the corporate owners of the McQueen brand. The corporations had won and the artists had lost.

In her groundbreaking work Gods and Kings, acclaimed journalist Dana Thomas tells the true story of McQueen and Galliano. In so doing, she reveals the revolution in high fashion in the last two decades—and the price it demanded of the very ones who saved it.

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Spanning the 80s 90s and noughties this book features the story of galliano and alexander mcqueen who created a great change in the world of fashion from london s raucous art and club scene to the old world glamour of parisian couture and reveals the machinations of this notoriously secretive in Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Gods and Kings

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In gods and kings dana thomas author of deluxe tells the story of how john galliano and alexander mcqueen changed the face of fashion in the first decade of the 21st century the fashion world was dominated by two very different but equally successful and turbulent figures but within twelve month Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

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Taal: en

Uitvoering: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 10 februari 2015

Aantal pagina's: 432

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Dana Thomas

Tweede Auteur: Thomas Dana

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Porno: Nee

Product breedte: 165 mm

Product hoogte: 38 mm

Product lengte: 241 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 165 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 36 mm

Verpakking lengte: 244 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 771 g

EAN: 9781594204944

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