| GIFT GUIDES 2013
Gift IdeasTop 10 Fashion Gift Books
Our top 10 picks both new and classic in fashion photography, design, style, and couture |
| | OUR FAVORITE FASHION GIFT BOOKSDANZIGER GALLERY/T.ADLER BOOKS  In 1955, Peter Mangone was 14 years old--a skinny boy from the Bronx with a Marilyn Monroe fixation, like so many teenagers of his generation. What distinguished Mangone was that he got to meet his idol. For several months, he had played truant from school to stake out the Gladstone Hotel on Manhattan’s East 52nd Street, where the 29-year-old Monroe was staying after her unhappy divorce from Joe DiMaggio and her [more]
Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 30 color.
ISBN 9781935202349
Publication Date: 10/31/2012 DAMIANI  Diego Uchitel has long revered the Polaroid for its dreamlike color and depth, and over the course of his 25-year career, he has continually sought to conjure these qualities in his fashion and celebrity photography. Uchitel used polaroid film from 1982 to 2006, until the digital camera became an unavoidable replacement. this volume is his loving homage to the medium that helped define his style—a selection of his favorite images, both [more]
Clth, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 240 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9788862082396
Publication Date: 10/31/2012 DAMIANI/OHWOW  This volume compiles all of the photographs from Terry Richardson’s wildly successful 2012 show Terrywood, held at the OHWOW gallery in Los Angeles. Terrywood is the photographer’s vision of everything that Hollywood has meant and continues to mean in the public imagination: grand-scale glitz, big-budget glamour—and of course the awards ceremonies, in homage to which Richardson produced a series of ten award statuettes for the show, fashioned in his own bespectacled [more]
Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 228 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9788862082518
Publication Date: 11/30/2012 VISIONAIRE  Some years ago, an antique stereoscope was presented at one of Visionaire's weekly brainstorm sessions, inspiring a maelstrom of ideas among the magazine's editors. When the opportunity to focus an issue on Rio de Janeiro came along, Visionairerealized that stereoscopy provided the perfect format for the theme. A stereoscope allows the viewer to look at a slide made up of a simultaneous double-image of the same picture, creating a 3-D illusion [more]
Boxed, 6 x 6 x 6 in. / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9781888645958
Publication Date: 8/31/2012 DAMIANI  Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles is a fantastical folly in the land of make-believe. As Harry Cohn, the founder of Columbia Pictures, said in 1939, If you must get in trouble, do it at the Chateau Marmont.” Several generations of actors, directors, writers and artists have heeded Cohn’s advice, from Dorothy Parker and F. Scott Fitzgerald to Hunter S. Thompson and Jim Morrison. The hotel has provided a refuge where both partying and privacy are [more]
Hbk, 12 x 9 in. / 184 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9788862082426
Publication Date: 11/30/2012 DAMIANI  Rocking Fornarina celebrates the past ten years of Fornarina’s street couture” shoewear and apparel through the photographs of Francesco Musati and Valentina Aimone, who together have developed the brand’s identity into a sexy, sassy and artful visual style. Founded in 1947 by Gianfranco Fornari, and now led by his son Lino, Fornarina has galvanized the women’s shoe and apparel industry with its fresh take on urban style, emphasizing strong color, bold [more]
Hbk, 9.5 x 13.5 in. / 204 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9788862082082
Publication Date: 9/30/2012 ARBOR VITAE  The photographs of David LaChapelle (born 1963) are among the most instantly recognizable images in contemporary photography. His ber-pop color portraits of celebrities such as Cameron Diaz, Marilyn Manson and Kanye West (whom he has portrayed, respectively, as King Kong, a crossing guard and Black Jesus) have propelled his work outside the closed society of galleries and museums into a wider public arena. Thus Spoke LaChapelle is the first retrospective of [more]
Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 284 pgs / 257 color.
ISBN 9788087164860
Publication Date: 10/31/2012 UM YEAH PRESS  Growing up in southern California, artist, photographer and filmmaker Thomas Campbell was raised on the DIY aesthetic of the early 1980s skateboarding culture. Photography tips came from like-minded fellow photographers employed in the skateboarding press rather than from school, and art history was a matter of osmosis, not academia. In the mid-1990s, Campbell moved to New York and immersed himself in the scene around Alleged Gallery, where he quickly befriended and [more]
Hbk, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 176 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9780985361105
Publication Date: 10/31/2012 DAMIANI  Ideas from Massimo Osti tells the story of the creator of the clothing brands C.P. Company and Stone Island. Crowned the most important man of 1990s menswear by Arena Homme +, Massimo Osti (1944–2005) was one of the most respected and imitated designers of his generation, whose innovations confounded the rules of the industry and created the fabrics of today. This is the story of a fashion engineer who throughout the [more]
Clth, 9.75 x 13.25 in. / 432 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9788862082358
Publication Date: 2/28/2013 DOMINO RECORDING CO. LTD.  After four critically acclaimed albums and nine years on the road, The Kills members Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince announce Dream and Drive, a portrait of the band’s career by their lifelong friend and collaborator Kenneth Cappello. Having sold nearly 200,000 copies of their four albums combined, the U.K. duo is now internationally known for its unique blend of pop, blues and punk. Dream and Drive captures Alison and Jamie in [more]
Clth, 8.5 x 9.75 in. / 182 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9780957114203
Publication Date: 9/30/2012 |
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