Visionaire's Fashion 2001: Designers of the New Avant-Garde [Hardcover]

Stephen Gan (Author), Alix Browne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 20, 1999

From Visionaire, publisher of the limited edition fashion and art quarterly, comes this fantastic visual compendium of the young and up-and-coming designers who will launch contemporary fashion into the new millennium. With a daring new vertical format and evocative new photography by such renowned fashion photographers as Mario Testino, Inez van Lamsweerde, and Vinoodh Matadin, this tribute profiles approximately sixty of the newest, cutting-edge designers from all over the world, including Raf Simons, Veronique Branquinho, Olivier Theyskens, Nicolas Ghesquiere, Jeremy Scott, Joseph Thimester, and A. F. Vandervorst. The clothes, the unforgettable shows, and the fantastic photos from today's top fashion photographers make this the fashion book of the new millennium.

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About the Author

Stephen Gan is the founder of Visionaire and the director of Visionaire Design.

Alix Browne is an editor at Visionaire and a freelance writer in New York City.

Mark Holgate is a fashion features editor for British Vogue.

Sally Singer is the fashion director of New York magazine.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Universe (November 20, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789303574
• ISBN-13: 978-0789303578
• Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,435,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing -- great concept, poorly realized, June 5, 2002

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jlsappin (new york, ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visionaire's Fashion 2001: Designers of the New Avant-Garde (Hardcover)

This book is a survey of new designers that lacks content and depth. While the designers featured may be talented, the photos often fail to convey this, because many of them don't display the designs prominently. Also, you don't get a good sense of the designers' styles based on the few examples (usually one or two per designer) shown.

In addition, I found the dimensions of this book to be quite awkward. The pages are smaller and narrower in width than I expected from a book containing fashion photographs.

I much prefer Claire Wilcox's Radical Fashion.

11 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the future, April 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Visionaire's Fashion 2001: Designers of the New Avant-Garde (Hardcover)

In this second book by Stephen Gan, he is looking at the future generation of fashion designers. You won't find Karl Lagerfeld or Gianni Versace in this book but the next garde of world reknown group of designers.If you are looking for the designers of today buy Visionaire fashion's 2000.