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Las frases célebres del legendario diseñador Yves Saint Laurent sobre alta costura, mujer, estilo y elegancia, en un precioso formato. Fundada por Yves Saint Laurent y Pierre Bergé en 1962, poco después de que el joven modista dejara su puesto al frente de Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent se convirtió en una de las casas de alta costura más exitosas e influyentes de París. Con Le Smoking, el primer traje de esmoquin para mujer, de 1966, Saint Laurent también presentó creaciones icónicas inspiradas en el arte, desde vestidos de Mondrian hasta preciosos bordados de Van Gogh y la famosa colección Ballets Rusos.

Una guía cuidadosamente ilustrada de los años que Lagerfeld trabajó en Chanel, desde su alta costura elaborada con gran exquisitez a los impresionantes e irreverentes desfiles que han hecho de Chanel la marca más ilustre del mundo. * La Casa Chanel no es sinónimo de un diseñador emblemático, sino de dos. Primero fue Gabrielle y luego Karl. * Sin embargo, Karl Lagerfeld no se limitó a continuar el legado de Gabrielle Chanel, sino que lo reinventó. Los productos icónicos de la Casa Chanel -el vestidito negro, el traje de tweed, la bisutería y la fragancia- se actualizaron con ingenio para la mujer moderna, mientras que los deseados accesorios estampados con el logotipo de la doble "C", reconocibles al instante, se convirtieron en símbolos universales de una elegancia lúdica. "Los jóvenes creadores que quieren seguir mis pasos, tienen que correr".

La crónica del trabajo de una de las modistas más influyentes y excéntricas de la historia. * Elsa Schiaparelli, dotada de una visión de la moda sumamente imaginativa y experimental, cultivó una mezcla única de ingenio y surrealismo, de innovación y elegancia en sus prendas y joyas, así como en sus colaboraciones con Salvador Dalí, Jean Cocteau y Alberto Giacometti. * Exquisitamente ilustrado y con un texto experto, este libro sigue la vida y la carrera de la diseñadora, y desgrana los principales temas de su obra creativa. Las imágenes de los diseños acabados de Schiaparelli, al igual que los detalles y las ilustraciones de sus bocetos, evidencian su genio innovador y el legado que hoy sigue vivo en la Casa Schiaparelli. "En los momentos difíciles, la moda siempre es extravagante".

Vogue gathers a stylish collection of at-home, intimate portraits photographed by today's fashion icons, designers, models, and artists, each documenting their creative lives under lockdown. Vogue: Postcards from Home is a beautiful and unforgettable collection of self-rendered images from a bevy of celebrities, photographers, filmmakers, actors, creative directors, performance artists, fashion designers, and models. Kendall Jenner, Virgil Abloh, Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Karen Elson, Florence Pugh, Maurizio Cattelan, Billy Porter, Donatella Versace, Gisele Bündchen, Cindy Sherman, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Kim Kardashian West are among those who share a glimpse of their lives under lockdown. From singer Lizzo meditating at home, to actress Florence Pugh honing her cooking skills, to Miuccia Prada contemplating Prada's next collection in her garden--these snapshots reflect a moment in history when the world turned upside down but creativity flourished. This unique record of a moment is a must-have for devotees of fashion, art, culture, and photography, and reaches across a readership of all ages. A portion of the proceeds will go to A Common Thread, Vogue's new fundraising initiative to provide assistance to the fashion industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adobe residences from the Spanish and Mexican eras were the original California houses. Architects, designers, builders, and homeowners today, as in the past, look to their simple, utilitarian features—such as plain, whitewashed walls, beamed ceilings, and intimate open-air courtyards—and try to emulate their forms to capture the charm of a romanticized past. Leading architects of style movements such as the Spanish Colonial Revival traveled to California and studied its extensive eighteenth and nineteenth century adobes firsthand as the foundation of their education in California architecture. Made of earth and organic matter, such as straw, adobe is among the oldest of building materials and has been used throughout the world. From the 1770s to the present, adobe buildings such as churches, forts (presidios), mills, residences, warehouses, and stores have been a most important and informative part of California’s architectural heritage. Adobe Houses presents twenty-three homes, made from adobe, showing interiors and gardens from these often quiet masterworks, ranging from Casa Boronda of 1817 in Monterey to Casa del Oso, a contemporary manifestation, built in Santa Barbara in 2000 that reveals the intriguing range of possibilities available to us when building in this traditional form today.

This monograph details thirty-four major architectural works from Valode and Pistre, including commercial, retail, industrial, and cultural projects. Founded in 1980 by its current directors Denis Valode and Jean Pistre, Valode and Pistre Architects is a highly sought-after architecture and design firm based in Paris. Their predominantly large-scale projects are distinguished by their high degree of diversity from the Contemporary Art Museum of Bordeaux to the L Oreal factory and more recently the T1 Tower La Defense in Paris. Their innovative designs for the Beaugrenelle Center on the Front of the Seine won the Global Award for Excellence in 2015 for its approach to urban development. The book features works such as the Renault Technocentre near Paris, Las Mercedes business park in Madrid, and a group of hotel towers in Beijing. The book also looks at future projects that were recently awarded to Valode and Pistre a new Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center and three stations of the Grand Paris Express transit line.