Xtreme Fashion (flexicover) by C Smith

Xtreme Fashion (flexicover) by C Smith

In Xtreme Fashion authors Courtenay Smith and Sean Topham turn their attention to the fashion world, where haute couture is taking a backseat to serious concerns about the environment, personal safety, and privacy. Featuring more than 300 color photos and fascinating text, the authors show how real fashion starts on the streets, born of urban conditions from gang culture to teenybopper worship. They showcase the works of designers, artists, and other creative individuals such as Moreno Ferrari, Freddie Robins, Vexed Generation, Alicia Framis, Daniele Buetti, Lucy Orta, and Hussein Chalayan to illustrate the demand for clothing that can protect, extend, alter, mark or mask the human body. Putting forth the idea that truly extreme fashion is not designed to be outlandish, but useful, Xtreme Fashion looks beyond the latest hemlines and "new blacks" to clothing and accessories that respond to the world we live in.

Courtenay Smith is Curator of the lothringer dreizehn space for contemporary art in Munich, Germany. She is the co-author of Xtreme Houses and Xtreme interiors (both Prestel). She lives in Munich. Sean Topham's books include Blow-Up, Xtreme Houses, Where's My Space Age?, and Move House (all Prestel). He lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9783791331751
ISBN 10	3791331752
Title	Xtreme Fashion (flexicover)
Author	C Smith
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Prestel
Year published	2005-03-29
Number of pages	160
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