Histoire Ideale - La Mode Contemporain, Catalogue

THE BOOK

The ideal story of contemporary fashion collections this most masterful and experimental past forty years

. – By Olivier Saillard.

In this chronological overview the 1970 march on the intersection of constant innovation and the quote that saw the birth of the term creator, then the 1980s that put “fashion fad. The minimalism of the 1990s announced the new century and the return of ornament.

Viktor &Rolf, prêt-à-porter, automne-hiver 2001-2002

Olivier Saillard has selected one hundred and twenty parades whose inventiveness and style testify to a copyright work to the detriment of the logic governing the brand’s fashion industry. By precise references and removed, it defines the lines of force of four years through fifty artists from the scandalous and determining collection of Yves Saint Laurent in 1971 to Jean Paul Gaultier, Martin Margiela, Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga . A parade marches also documented qu’argumenté supported by a breathtaking imagery.

THE AUTHOR

Olivier Saillard, fashion historian is. Curator of the exhibition “History ideal of contemporary fashion” from March 2010 to February 2011, he also designed the following exhibitions: “Yohji Yamamoto, Juste clothing” (2005), “Jean-Paul Gaultier Regine Chopinot parade “(2007),” Christian Lacroix, fashion stories “(2007-2008),” Sonia Rykiel Exhibition “(2008-2009).

Unfortunatley, we have not had the possibility to study the catalogue yet, as we haven´t yet received it, to our editorial office in Paris

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