Books

Break into the Fashion Business with Insider Tips from Marc Jacobs, Anna Wintour and the Entire Teen Vogue Staff with THE TEEN VOGUE HANDBOOK

Tracing Andy Warhol's origins as the sickly child of Ruthenian immigrants in working-class Pittsburgh to his transformation into New York's dark prince of Pop and finally into the world's most successful 'business artist', 'Andy Warhol 'Giant' Size' provides an appropriately larger-than-life look at the celebrated artist's career. Cultural critic Dave Hickey provides a compelling essay on Warhol's geek-to-guru evolution while chapter openers by Warhol friends and insiders give special insight into the way the enigmatic artist led his life and made his art. More than 2,000 illustrations culled from rarely seen archival material, documentary photography, and artwork not only provide a full picture of the artist's life but a telling look at late twentieth-century popular culture. Warhol's little-explored early career as a successful commercial illustrator and designer, his importance as a co-creator of the Pop movement, his midcareer switch to filmmaker and manager of the Velvet Underground, his founding of Interview magazine, and his bid for the hearts and pocketbooks of the high-flying glitterati are shown throughout this stunning new volume.

Introduction by Dave Hickey. Conceived and edted by Phaidon Editors.
Phaidon, London, 2009. 624 pp., 1400 color and 600 black & white illustrations, 8½x11¼".

Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 encompasses seven decades of extraordinary images by Richard Avedon.

Ballets Russes The Stockholm Collection is a must have new book designed by Frankenstein and published by Dansmuseet & Langenskiöld. It's available at selected retailers and online at BOKUS Ballets Russes still serves as an inspirational source for the fashion designers of our era like Yves Saint-Laurent and Jean-Paul Gaultier or the British house of Mulberry. There were echoes of the Ballets Russes' costumes even in Marc Jacobs' S/S 09 collection and in Chanels's Pre-Fall 09 designs.