Black Coffee Table Books (3)

Fashionpedia: The Visual Dictionary of Fashion Design by Fashionary - Published: Fashionary International Limited - 06-01-2016 - 336 pages.

Fashion & Jewelry - Fashion & Textiles - Fashionpedia is the ultimate fashion bible, containing thousands of fashion items for more efficient and productive brainstorming.

Designed to be as visually driven as the people who use it, Fashionpedia contains thousands of fashion items, converting unapproachable technical terms on style, material and production into beautiful charts and infographics.

Whether you’re an industry insider or a fashion connoisseur, Fashionpedia is all you’ll ever need to navigate the fashion scene.



Hello Human: A History of Visual Communication by Michael Horsham - Published: Thames and Hudson Ltd - 15-09-2022 - 232 pages.

Popular Culture - Contemporary Culture - A kaleidoscopic journey tracing the methods and means of visual communication from the cave paintings of the earliest humans to the ‘photograph’ of a black hole in deep space.

Since the beginning of our time as humans, we have never stopped making images and inventing channels for visual communication. From the cave dweller creating paintings on a wall at the dawn of civilized time to Instagram influencers today, technology may keep changing, but our need to reach one another, to move one another, to persuade, inform and entertain, has never been so vital.

Hello Human traverses the entire landscape of our diverse, expansive and yet familiar means of visual communication. From the use of the human hand as a symbol, the power and use of gestures and the genesis of the printed book, to the movement between DIMENSIONS of reality and the digital realm, pixilation, optics and the understanding of light, Horsham takes his readers on a journey full of unexpected twists and turns, laying out a temporal narrative in the form of an intricate map of objects, events and people tied together by a common purpose – to communicate.



Chanel Catwalk: The Complete Collections by Patrick Mauriès and Adélia Sabatini - Published: Thames and Hudson Ltd - 08-10-2020 - 760 pages.

Fashion & Jewelry - Fashion & Textiles - ‘This is your new fashion bible’ Id

The best-selling Chanel Catwalk was the first book to gather every Chanel collection ever created by Karl Lagerfeld in a single volume. Now fully updated to include Lagerfeld’s final collections for the house and those of his right-hand and successor, Virginie Viard, this revised edition includes twenty-eight new collections.

This definitive publication features a concise history of Karl Lagerfeld and Virginie Viard’s time at Chanel as well as brief biographical profiles of each designer. The collections (from Haute Couture and Ready-to-Wear to Cruise and Métier d’arts) are organized chronologically. Each one is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images, showcasing hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs – and of course the top fashion models who wore them on the runway. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.

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