Style City
By Robert O'Byrne
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Online price: £19.25
This title is currently availableRRP: £35.00 You save £15.75 (45% discount) Hardback, 256pp Published: 24th September 2009 Category: Architecture, Art and Design, Fashion, History  |
The book goes right from 1970s Britain, when designer fashion barely existed, to the present day and is told mostly through interviews with the iconic designers who helped make it so. Pour over images from the likes of David Bailey and sketches by John Galliano. A must-have for any fashionista's coffee table. - U Magazine
This is a painstakingly researched book with engaging first-hand interviews with designers such as Paul Smith, Jaspar Conran and Betty Jackson, lavishly illustrated… for anyone interested in the history of London's present status as a style city, it is a worthwhile read. - Irish Times
Must read: Learn how the UK has become a fashion force. - Daily Express
Anyone with more than a passing interest in fashion should put their feet up and get their teeth stuck into O'Byrne's presentation of a fascinating industry. - Sunday Business Post
London now ranks alongside Paris, New York and Milan as a global fashion capital, and it has produced such outstanding designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Stella McCartney. Style City tells, for the first time, the story of how that came about, describing how fashion developed in Britain from the early 1970s, when designer fashion scarcely existed, to the present day. The story is told largely through interviews with the designers and opinion-shapers of the time, among them Paul Smith, Philip Treacy, Jasper Conran, Bruce Oldfield, Betty Jackson, Wendy Dagworthy and Antonio Berardi. Ravishingly illustrated, the book includes photographs by David Bailey, Barry Lategan, Chris Moore and other leading fashion photographers, as well as many from the designers' own archives.
Additional Images
The Frances Lincoln stand at London Fashion Weekend
256 pages
200 photographs in colour and black and white
