Manus Machina
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- Author : Andrew Bolton
- Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Release : 02 May 2016
- ISBN : 9781588395924
- Page : 248 pages
- Rating : 4.5/5 from 103 voters
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Manus × Machina (“Hand × Machine”) features exceptional fashions that reconcile traditional hand techniques with innovative machine technologies such as 3-D printing, laser cutting, circular knitting, computer modeling, bonding and laminating, and ultrasonic welding. Featuring 90 astonishing pieces, ranging from Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s iconic tweed suit to Karl Lagerfeld’s 3-D-printed version, and from Yves Saint Laurent’s bird-of-paradise dress to Iris van Herpen’s silicone adaptation — all beautifully photographed by Nicholas Alan Cope — this fascinating book is an exploration of both the artistry and the future of fashion.
Featuring interviews with Sarah Burton (Alexander McQueen), Hussein Chalayan, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli (Valentino), Nicolas Ghesquière (Louis Vuitton), Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough (Proenza Schouler), Iris van Herpen, Christopher Kane, Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel), Miuccia Prada, and Gareth Pugh.Manus × Machina
- Author : Andrew Bolton,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Release Date : 2016-05-02
- ISBN : 9781588395924
Manus × Machina (“Hand × Machine”) features exceptional fashions that reconcile traditional hand techniques with innovative machine technologies such as 3-D printing, laser cutting, circular knitting, computer modeling, bonding and laminating, and ultrasonic welding. Featuring 90 astonishing pieces, ranging from Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s iconic tweed suit to Karl Lagerfeld’s 3-D-printed version, and from Yves Saint Laurent’s bird-of-paradise dress to Iris van Herpen’s silicone adaptation — all beautifully photographed by Nicholas Alan Cope — this fascinating book is an exploration of both
Manus X Machina

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- Publisher : Unknown
- Release Date : 2016
- ISBN : 1588396266
Manus × Machina
- Author : Andrew Bolton,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Release Date : 2016-05-02
- ISBN : 9781588395924
Manus × Machina (“Hand × Machine”) features exceptional fashions that reconcile traditional hand techniques with innovative machine technologies such as 3-D printing, laser cutting, circular knitting, computer modeling, bonding and laminating, and ultrasonic welding. Featuring 90 astonishing pieces, ranging from Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s iconic tweed suit to Karl Lagerfeld’s 3-D-printed version, and from Yves Saint Laurent’s bird-of-paradise dress to Iris van Herpen’s silicone adaptation — all beautifully photographed by Nicholas Alan Cope — this fascinating book is an exploration of both
Wild
- Author : Andrew Bolton,Shannon Bell-Price,Elyssa Da Cruz,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Release Date : 2004-12-07
- ISBN : 9781588391353
The text of this book, published to accompany the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2004-2005 exhibition of the same name, is supported with 95 color and many b&w illustrations documenting humanity's obsession with animals in clothing from prehistoric times to the present. Bolton, Associate Curator of the MET's Costume Institute, chooses a gorgeous coll
Extreme Beauty
- Author : Harold Koda
- Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Release Date : 2004
- ISBN : 9780300103120
This beautiful and thought-provoking book presents many of the extraordinary and diverse transformations that the body has endured in fashion over time and across cultures. It demonstrates that an undeniable beauty abides throughout the subtle and the radical manipulations that have occurred as part of the continuing evolution of the concept of beauty. Fashion has practiced extreme strategies to portray shifting concepts of the physical ideal. The physical areas of the body have been variously and strategically adjusted. They have
China
- Author : Andrew Bolton,John Galliano,Adam Geczy,Maxwell K. Hearn,Homay King,Harold Koda,Mei Mei Rado,Wong Kar Wai
- Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Release Date : 2015-05-04
- ISBN : 9780300211122
For centuries China has fueled the creative imagination and inspired fashion. This stunning publication explores the influence of Chinese art, film, and aesthetics on international fashion designers, including Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, and Yves Saint Laurent.
Dangerous Liaisons
- Author : Harold Koda,Andrew Bolton,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Release Date : 2006
- ISBN : 9780300107142
An alluring look at the relationship of clothing and interior design in 18th-century France
Charles James
- Author : Harold Koda,Jan Reeder
- Publisher : Yale University Press
- Release Date : 2014-06-03
- ISBN : 9780300204360
This catalogue offers the first comprehensive study of James’s life and work, highlighting his virtuosity and inventiveness as well as the colorful cast of benefactors and clients who supported him.
Camp
- Author : Andrew Bolton,Karen Van Godtsenhoven,Amanda Garfinkel,Fabio Cleto
- Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Release Date : 2019-05-06
- ISBN : 9781588396686
"Indeed, the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration." —Susan Sontag, 1964 Although an elusive concept, "camp" can be found in most forms of artistic expression, revealing itself to be a complex aesthetic that challenges the status quo. As an expression of the playful dynamics between high art and popular culture, fashion both embraces and flaunts such camp modes as irony, humor, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and exaggeration. Drawing from Susan Sontag’s seminal 1964 essay "
Fashion Criticism
- Author : Francesca Granata
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Release Date : 2021-01-28
- ISBN : 9781350058781
This is the first anthology of fashion criticism, a growing field that has been too long overlooked. Fashion Criticism aims to redress the balance, claiming a place for writing on fashion alongside other more well-established areas of criticism. Exploring the history of fashion criticism in the English language, this essential work takes readers from the writing published in avant-garde modernist magazines at the beginning of the twentieth century to the fashion criticism of Robin Givhan-the first fashion critic to win
Cristóbal Balenciaga
- Author : Lesley Ellis Miller
- Publisher : Holmes & Meier Pub
- Release Date : 1993
- ISBN : CORNELL:31924063114072
About Time
- Author : Andrew Bolton,Jan Glier Reeder,Jessica Regan,Amanda Garfinkel,Theodore Martin,Michael Cunningham
- Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Release Date : 2020-06-15
- ISBN : 9781588396884
“An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.” —Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, 1928 About Time: Fashion and Duration traces the evolution of fashion, from 1870 to the present, through a linear timeline of iconic garments, each paired with an alternate design that jumps forward or
Schiaparelli & Prada
- Author : Andrew Bolton,Harold Koda
- Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Release Date : 2012
- ISBN : 9781588394545
"The Met's Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, explores the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two Italian designers from different eras. Inspired by Miguel Covarrubia's "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair in the 1930s, the exhibition features orchestrated conversations between these iconic women to suggest new readings of their most innovative work. Iconic ensembles will be presented with videos of simulated conversations between Schiaparelli and Prada directed by Baz Luhrmann, focusing on how both women
AngloMania
- Author : Andrew Bolton
- Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Release Date : 2006
- ISBN : 9781588392060
Catalogus bij een tentoonstelling over typisch Engelse symbolen die terugkomen in hedendaagse Britse mode.
The Mind Is a Collection
- Author : Sean Silver
- Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
- Release Date : 2015-11-19
- ISBN : 9780812247268
John Locke described the mind as a cabinet; Robert Hooke called it a repository; Joseph Addison imagined a drawer of medals. Each of these philosophers was an avid collector and curator of books, coins, and cultural artifacts. It is therefore no coincidence that when they wrote about the mental work of reason and imagination, they modeled their powers of intellect in terms of collecting, cataloging, and classification. The Mind Is a Collection approaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century metaphors of the mind