Customer Reviews
Amazing Fashion book A-Z - By: J. Volbeda, 08 Jul 2006 
An amazing good Fashion book! A-Z of fashion icons, photographers, models, designers, etc. Everyone that isin the fashion world well known! I loved looking through the book as I didn't know every single person mentionedin it! It's a must buy if you are interested/in to fashion!
The Most Ambitious Fashion Summary Ever - By: Donald Mitchell, 25 Aug 2004 
This is the Reader's Digest Condensed version of the history of fashion over the last 150 years. Unlike Reader's Digest, this book succeedsin capturing the essencein amazing kernals of elegance, curve, design, & motion. Everyone who loves fashion should have this book. There is simply no substitute for it, & you will have many hours of pleasure looking at its exciting images & reading the descriptions. The book is a great value for its price, as well, which will help make it available to more people.
The book isin an unusual format, one page each for 500 icons, models, fashion & accessory designers, make-up artists, hairdressers, retailers, illustrators, & photographers donein alphabetical order. Each page typically has one person (a few have two), with one image, & one brief textual summary of the person's work.
It is an amazing challenge to capture all of a person's workin one image, & some great successes occurred. Some of my favorites were Madonna, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Harry Winston, Naomi Campbell, Coco Chanel, Noel Coward, & Rudi Gernreich.
On the other hand, some of the old black & white images did not reproduce well. Some of the worst examples are Antoine (a hairdresser with a photograph of Josephine Baker's hair), Maria-Louise Bruyere (a designer), Christian Dior, Max Factor, Barbara Goalen (a model), Gucci, & Hermes. In many cases, these choices appear to have been influenced by the desire to have the facing pages converse with one another. So you will see echoes of design, line, & stylein these ways. I appreciate that effort (which is often quite eloquent), but it should not slight the individual whose work is being portrayed. I graded the book down one star for the compromises made here not working wellin too many cases.
After you have finished reading & enjoying this book many times, I suggest that you think about where else it would be helpful to have a similar workin your life. Perhaps a scrapbook containing photographs of all of your friends who have somethingin common would be a possibility. You could write a brief text about each. This could greatly add to your pleasurein remembering these friends, & perhaps expand their interaction when they see how you have put them together.
Keep to the essence, but be bold!
FASHION BIBLE! - By: , 17 Nov 2003 This book is a fantastic coffee table book. It's stylish contempary layout is very simple & informative. The book is laced with excellent enspiring pictures & photos by famous photographers, designers, makeup artists etc! JUST FANTASTIC, ITS A MUST HAVE !
If you love fashion, you'll love this !! - By: , 05 Nov 2000 If you're as mad as i am about fashion, then you'll love this book! This book covers everything from the true British designers to world renowned Fashion Gods!! The photos are very classy, & the layout is very stylish !! In alphabetical order, the book is very easy to use. A definate must have for any Fashion Student.
