BELLAS ARTES

No Hollywood red carpet is ever without an A-list celebrity wearing one of Pamella Roland’s signature megawatt dresses that never fail to catch the light of a camera. Since the American fashion designer’s debut eveningwear couture collection at New York Fashion Week in 2002, Roland has been a perennial favorite for women and celebrities alike who aren’t afraid of being in the spotlight. Each page of this dazzling debut book features the opulent, sophisticated, and undeniably feminine cocktail dresses, evening gowns, and luxurious women’s resort wear that have made Roland a mainstay in the closets of everyone from Hollywood starlets to customers outside the fashion centers of New York and Los Angeles. Colorful, eye-catching photographs reveal Roland’s design process and creation of her gowns, including sketches, inspirational reference material, snapshots of memorable runway and red-carpet moments, and the debut of her new fragrance. Featured in the book are many of Roland’s devoted friends and clients including Vanessa Williams, Paris Hilton, Mindy Kaling, Kim Cattrall, Debra Messing, Chrissy Teigen, Gigi Hadid, Halle Berry, Rosie Perez, and Eva Longoria, among others. A tribute to the bedazzled, embroidered, and glitzy dresses worn by Hollywood elite, New York socialites, and women across the globe—this volume is a beautiful addition to the libraries of fashion, design, and style lovers.

A chronicle of the pioneering and subversive brand Parachute and its influence on the evolution of fashion in the 1980s and beyond. From its beginnings inspired by New Wave subculture to its position as an international fashion sensation, the Parachute brand from Montreal was recognized for its visionary, bold apparel and innovative concept stores. Avant-garde in attitude and design, Parachute brought together high and low, the establishment and the underground. The clothing was defined by androgynous looks, oversized silhouettes, elevated essentials, and graphic references to past and future, from exaggerated trench coats to “space samurai kimonos.” Together with a considered retail presence, which combined an industrial aesthetic in the stores with exuberant photography campaigns, the brand created a vision for street fashion that is keenly relevant today.

Paris is the City of Light in all its facets. In the 1920s La Ville des lumières gleams especially bright and becomes a magnet for creative people from around the world. This is the decade of Coco Chanel and Josephine Baker, Art Deco and Surrealism, café culture and cabaret. The most famous artists of the epoch, later called Classic Modernism, are in close contact and have lively exchanges with one another – including Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, René Clair, Sonia Delaunay, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí. The creative life and all its excesses flourish bohème is the word for this way of living. Composers like Igor Stravinsky, writers like James Joyce or Ernest Hemingway and exiles from Eastern Europe like Constantin Brancusi or Marc Chagall enrich the illustrious scene on Montparnasse.

The lives and works of artists in every creative discipline transformed Paris into a crucible of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. Profiles of eighty-eight influential artists, designers, photographers, architects, writers, and personalities—including Gabrielle Chanel, Eileen Gray, Jean Prouvé, Pablo Picasso, Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Brassaï, Man Ray, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Walter Benjamin, Josephine Baker, Jean Renoir, Gertrude Stein, and more—highlight the boundless creative energy and optimism that permeated the City of Light at this key historical juncture. Richly illustrated alphabetical entries with cross-references to related topics are complemented by six thematic essays on cinema, fashion, graphic design, habitation, painting, and urban planning. A portfolio of original contemporary photographs—from the historic center to the suburbs of Paris—reveals traces of modernism in dozens of buildings and their interiors that are rarely open to the public. This catalog—published to accompany an exhibition at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai in summer 2023—sketches a panorama of human invention across the vast creative landscape of Paris from 1914 to 1945.

El primer resumen completo de las magníficas colecciones de alta costura de Yves Saint Laurent, desde la inauguración en 1962 hasta su retirada en 2002, presentado a través de las fotografías originales de las pasarelas. Como homenaje al legendario diseñador, este libro es el registro de cuarenta años de creaciones icónicas de la alta costura, desde el radical «Le Smoking» (el primer traje de esmoquin para mujeres) de 1966 hasta las deslumbrantes creaciones inspiradas en el arte: vestidos «Mondrian», preciosos bordados «Van Gogh», capas «cubistas» y la famosa colección Ballets Russes, por nombrar algunos. * Incluye una introducción y una descripción sobre el perfil del diseñador a cargo de Suzy Menkes, así como los textos de las colecciones del Musée Yves Saint Laurent París. Un libro que ofrece una oportunidad única de mostrar las creaciones del diseñador que revolucionó el guardarropa de la mujer moderna. Con más de 1000 imágenes, este tesoro de inspiración es una referencia obligada para todos los profesionales de la moda y los seguidores de Yves Saint Laurent.

Los vestigios de Abjasia, un país que no existe, una fábrica abandonada transformada en decorados para Hollywood, la Línea Verde de Chipre, la ciudad fantasma que dejó la catástrofe de Chernóbil, un cine modernista en Bruselas, insólitas fortificaciones del siglo XVIII en Italia, la ciudad de Tskaltubo y sus “aguas de la inmortalidad”, una de las termas más antiguas de Rumanía… Roman Robroek es un fotógrafo del sur de los Países Bajos fascinado por la arquitectura urbana. Sus espectaculares fotografías de lugares olvidados en el mundo entero han ganado múltiples premios. ¿Cuál es la historia de estos edificios? ¿Quiénes vivían en ellos? ¿Para qué servían esos objetos y por qué los abandonaron? Su insaciable curiosidad por estos temas le llevó a ser fotógrafo urbano. Patrimonio abandonado es el resultado de diez años explorando lugares fantasmales en busca de respuestas.