Mark C. O'Flaherty

Narrative Thread (eBook, ePUB)

Conversations on Fashion Collections

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"I adored this book and can't recommend it highly enough" - Cathy Horyn
"Beautifully executed" - Norma Kamali
"A visual feast" - Giles Deacon
"Entertaining, thought-provoking, and serious. Read it and learn." - Colin McDowell

"Clothes from our past shape who we are, and who we will be. Why do we hold on to certain garments and what do they tell us and others about our lives?"

Mark C. O'Flaherty asks 14 individuals who work with or use clothes in a unique way: how has fashion created something significant in your life? Through fascinating conversations, and photoshoots of their private collections, in New York, London and Milan, he constructs a portrait of each person through their intimate relationships with fashion, featuring The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas, Charlie Casely-Hayford, John Matheson (McQueen Vault), Sandy Powell, Stephen Jones, Carla Sozzani, Winn Austin, Carmen Haid, Susanne Bartsch, Karlo Steel, Karim Rashid, Steven Philip, and Desmond is Amazing.

How have these people used fashion as a vessel for memory or identity to develop their own narratives, and what does our relationship with clothing say about its changing nature as a commodity? With a foreword by influential fashion tastemaker Amanda Harlech, and opening conversations with three of fashion's most respected scholars, Valerie Steele, Andre Walker and Claire Wilcox, Narrative Thread is an eye-opening resource for our understanding of fashion's past and present - and its continuing importance in our lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350287693
• Artikelnr.: 68697719

Autorenporträt

Mark C. O'Flaherty has been a design journalist and photographer based between London and New York for over 20 years. Before that he was a DJ, music photographer, visual installation artist in nightclubs and show producer at London Fashion Week. He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, HTSI, New York Times and Sunday Times, and has shot for Issey Miyake, Hermès, Knoll, Nobu and numerous international editions of AD and Elle Décor, and World of Interiors.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Amanda Harlech What Do Our Clothes Really Mean? Conversations
Valerie Steele (Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at FIT, USA) - on
fashion as product Andre Walker (Black and queer New York designer) - on
fashion and identity Claire Wilcox (Senior Curator, V&A, UK) - on fashion
and memory 1. The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas (Valerie and Jean, NYC models
and bloggers and champions of 'Senior Style') 2. Charlie Casely-Hayford
(son and protege of the late Joe Casely-Hayford) 3. John Matheson (McQueen
Vault) 4. Sandy Powell (Oscar-winning costume designer) 5. Stephen Jones
(milliner) 6. Carla Sozzani (of Alaïa and 10 Corso Como, Milan, Italy) 7.
Winn Austin (Black gender queer model, performer and choreographer, London,
UK) 8. Carmen Haid (London-based fashion entrepreneur, former
communications director for Yves Saint Laurent, Tommy Hilfiger and Celine)
9. Susanne Bartsch (entrepreneur, artist and performer, NY, USA) 10. Karlo
Steel (Black founder of influential NY store, Atelier) 11. Karim Rashid
(Cairo-born Canadian NY-based designer) 12. Steven Philip (fashion
archivist and consultant) 13. Desmond is Amazing (radical drag queen and
LGBTQ+ advocate) Index Acknowledgments