A fine copy of the absolutely brilliant Hussein Chalayan monograph published by Rizzoli in 2011. Super scarce first edition first printing.
Impossible to document here, the book covers Chalayan's catwalk fashion, films, and installations. Chalayan is famous for crossing genre boundaries. His work is all about ideas, merging history, anthropology, science, technology to show how these domains interact. Chalayan tends to speak about his work in terms of projects, instead of fashion collections, calling it "a conversation, a constant state of discourse."
'Some of Chalayan's best-known designs include a paper dress that can be folded into an envelope and airmailed armchair covers that transform into dresses, and a coffee table that reveals itself to be a wooden skirt. Original and groundbreaking, his designs are also pretty and modern, and this book explores that continuum.'
This comprehensive monograph contains numerous pix by star photographers such as Richard Avedon, Nick Knight, Mario Testino, Inez van Lamsweerde and Nick Thornton Jones, including photographs of his austere catwalk presentations, and hundreds of drawings by Chalayan.
Robert Violette (ed.), Hussein Chalayan: New York, Rizzoli, 2011. Hardcover, 276 pp. 31 x 26,5 cm. First edition, first printing.
A fine copy. Spine slightly sunned, but a lot less than most other copies of this book.
Robert Violette (ed.), Hussein Chalayan: New York, Rizzoli, 2011. Hardcover, 276 pp. 31 x 26,5 cm. First edition, first printing. Cover photograph by Richard Avedon.
A fine copy. Spine slightly sunned, which is a lot less than many other copies of this book. Two
Texts by Judith Clark, Suzannah Frankel, Pamela Golbin, Emily King, Rebecca Lowthorpe, Sarah Mower. Drawings by Hussein Chalayan.
'Rituals Renewed' is an essay by Emily King on Chalayan's unique position in art, design, and contemporary fashion.