Visionaire # 33 : Touch [Paperback]

Stephen Gan (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1888645202 | ISBN-13: 978-1888645200 | Publication Date: October 2, 2000

Edited by Stephen Gan.

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Visionaire #33: Touch, a boxful of cardboard creatures dressed up in fur, feathers, velvet, and netting, is a marriage of paper dolls and Pat the Bunny for very sophisticated grownups. As with every edition of Visionaire, the quarterly publication of style and design, Touch is high-concept eye candy dedicated to a theme in limited, numbered editions of fewer than 3,500. This time out, Visionaire honors the 75th anniversary of the Italian designer and furrier Fendi. A heavy matte black cardboard package gives way to a large metal box of brushed gold, perforated with a grid of squares, a cold touch of industrial design that hints at the Fendi logo and yet somehow implies an animal carrying case with air holes. Slide off the lid, and there's the animal: Fendi's soft, supple, pony skin cache-col (yes, it can be worn) enfolded around a stack of unbound, heavy-stock pages, each depicting the creation of a leading designer and stamped or embossed with elaborate printing techniques. Several of the bodies wear Fendi, of course: spare and bright-colored geometric shapes on headless torsos. Other standouts include Yohji Yamamoto's black-robed figure on a shiny silver background clutching a bruise-colored faux fur muff and Dior's newspaper cutout of a lean female form in a feathery dress, stock reports running up her leg. Alexander McQueen's extraterrestrial archer in a yellow sandpaper top and paintbrush skirt strikes a witty note, as does Junya Watanabe's bemused skeleton that can be transformed into a snowman with tiny head and feet. You won't be able to keep your hands off.

About the Author

"Stephen Gan, born in the Philippines of Chinese parentage, is the founder of Visionnaire, an acclaimed quarterly publication on fashion and photography. He lives in New York."

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Visionaire Publishing, LLC (October 2, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1888645202
• ISBN-13: 978-1888645200
• Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 9.8 x 2.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,805,721 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It is the best visionaire in this two years, December 4, 2000

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"billyamy" (hong kong, - Hong Kong) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visionaire # 33 : Touch (Paperback)

I started collecting visionaire two years ago, I think #33, Touch, is the best issue throughout these two years. (It is even better than LV #30). The brushed golden metal box is shiny and grand. There are 20 Fendi 2000/2001 fashion desigen collection image cards, every card is produced by different printing techniques, for instance, foil-stamping, sculpt-embossing, 3D...etc, It is creative and beautiful. A wearable pony skin scarf is used for packing the 20 cards in order to put them inside the golden metal box. This scarf is definitely the image of Fendi fashion style. Both scarf, golden box and image card are very match in colour and style. It is a perfect art design except it is a little bit expensive. (Actually, I really hope to cancel half star of the 5 I rated above because of the higher price) However, I still don't know how to wear the scarf. Anyway, if you like collecting beautiful creative design product and you can afford, buy it. I think you will like it because it is a full marks-5 star product.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not only Fendi., December 13, 2000

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"billyamy" (hong kong, - Hong Kong) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visionaire # 33 : Touch (Paperback)

Information correction. The 20 cards are not only from Fendi, they also contain Dior, Chanel, GUCCI, Prada...etc. You will like it very much.