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What place does literature have in the fashion world? What role do creators and artistic directors give it today? What are they reading? Do the readings inspire their creations? To answer all these questions and cure my literary blues, I infiltrated the world of fashion in order to combine it with literature, after having combined design and literature in my previous book.
So I asked around forty fashion designers to draw and dedicate clothes and accessories to their favorite writers or literary heroes. My trip to the land of style turned out to be exciting. All these creators have designed, drawn, imagined and composed dresses, jackets, suits, bags, shoes, jewelry, hats, perfumes and makeup full of fantasy.
From Karl Lagerfeld, who dedicated a very subtle exercise of admiration to Catherine Pozzi, to Rabih Kayrouz, crazy about Baudelaire; Camille Miceli, Zweig fan; Bouchra Jarrar, unconditional Sagan fan; Vincent Darré, fascinated by Raymond Roussel; Inès de La Fressange, captivated by Hauteclaire Stassin; Elie Top, avid reader of Marguerite Duras; Manolo Blahnik, passionate lover of Emma Bovary; as well as Olympia Le-Tan, Delfina Delettrez, Isabel Marant, Vanessa Seward, Anne Valérie Hash, Dominique Modiano, Peter Copping, Frédéric Malle, Yaz Bukey, Olivier Échaudemaison, Élizabeth Garouste, Serge Lutens, Christian Lacroix, Silvia Fendi, Véronique Nichanian, Martine Sitbon, Bruno Frisoni, Gustavo Lins, Elvis Pompilio, Ophélie Klère-François Alary, Christophe Josse, Alexis Mabille, Hervé Van der Straeten, Julien Fournié, Steffie Christiaens, Émilie Luc-Duc, Maurizio Galante, Marisol Suarez, Serkan Cura up to the brilliant team of Valentino, Maria Grazia Chiuri-Pierpaolo Piccioli, who imagined two spidery dresses for Elizabeth Bennet and Anna Karenina… all happily participated in this fun literary adventure!
Literature finally seems to have a bright future in this land of fashion where all excesses are necessary to keep taste alive, as Christian Dior asserted.
• 23 x 30.5 cm
• 160 pages
• 175 illustrations
• Hardback cover
• ISBN: 978-2-9155-4254-7
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