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Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture

Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture

$90.00

Hodge, Brooke, Patricia Mears, and Susan Sidlauskas

Cl. New York, 2006

SKU 70733

Book and accompanying exhibition focusing on the visual and conceptual principles uniting fashion and architecture since 1980. They both share similar techniques of construction, including pinning, darting, folding, wrapping and draping. Fashion designers are creating increasingly architectonic garments, while architects are looking to fashion and tailoring to archieve complex forms with hard materials. Features 40 architects and designers from the US, Europe and Japan including Chalayan, McQueen, Westwood, Lynn, Gehry, Hadid, and Koolhaas. Fine condition with fine dust jacket.

272 pp., 500 color illus.