Peripatetic Chanel head designer, book publisher, photographer--and now, film director--Karl Lagerfeld founded Metiers d'Arts

This publication situates Khmer gold artefacts within the broader art-historical development of mainland Southeast Asia, focusing on their formal,

From the glory days of big hair, big shoulder pads and ostentatious wealth - or at least the illusion of it - comes Michael Doster:

Sonia Rykiel is a comprehensive retrospective monograph edited by Olivier Saillard that celebrates the life, work, and

s book is an exciting step back in time to when Männer Vogue was Germany's leading men's fashion magazine.

An exceptional talent, one of the greatest designers of all time – every superlative seems appropriate to describe the experimental imagination

Witty, playful, and effortlessly chic, Inge Morath: On Style reveals the vital forms of fashion and self-expression that blossomed into existence in England, France, and the United States in the postwar decades.

Ein Harnisch der Renaissance diente einst nicht alleine dem Schutz in Kampf und Turnier.

An unprecedented volume of photography from the Condé Nast Archive, illustrating the history, art, and fashion of their famous magazine brands

The Big Picture is the first major monograph dedicated to Arthur Elgort, one of the most influential fashion photographers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Eine der ältesten Formen chinesischen Volksglaubens erweist sich als lebendiger Brauch, der überall in der Kultur Chinas praktiziert wird:

How does clothing 'work' socially? Combines images and notes by the artist with sources of inspiration from film, art, literature and philosophy

X is an annual magazine focusing on visual culture and experimental literature: a collective artwork, a material flow of reality that eludes any prediction. X freezes on paper the power of contemporary art and writing, welcoming with joy the delirum of participating in such pursuits. Pain, battles, sequences of errors, vanished memories and unwanted prophecies; X is born because we can still be against everything and also against ourselves.

Auf der Suche nach dem Verlorenen. Der international bekannte Modefotograf Alexander Gnädinger widmete sich in den letzten 2 Jahren einem freien Projekt, um ein Gegengewicht zu seiner kommerziellen Arbeit zu schaffen. Extrem stilisierte, ästhetisch verdichtete Bilder, wie sie z.B. seit Jahren für seinen Kunden Adidas entstehen, sind sein Markenzeichen.

Während seiner 40-jährigen Karriere porträtierte der schottische Fotograf unzählige Film-, Rock- und Politstars für Magazine, schuf Reportagestrecken und fotografierte mehr als 250 Titel für die Mode-Bibel Vogue.

Can corporate history be art? This question can only be asked if one is not familiar with the fascinating long-term project by the Chinese artist Xiaowen Zhu. Anyone who has experienced Oriental Silk will answer this question with a clear “yes.” The project’s title is also the name of a company founded in Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

Lee Friedlander is one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. Through Friedlander’s lens, people in their everyday environments are transformed into arresting portraits, and the banal features of roadsides, storefronts, and city streets become vivid scenery. In Dressing Up, Friedlander ventures into new territory, turning his eye to the rarefied world of fashion and revealing precisely what is commonplace about it: behind the glamorous spectacle of the runway are many people hard at work.

Als "Nothing Personal", das gemeinsame Buchprojekt der Schulfreunde Richard Avedon und James Baldwin 1964 erschien, stellte es die Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft des Publikums, Mehrdeutigkeiten und Widersprüche auszuhalten, auf eine zu harte Probe.

Das zentrale Prinzip der frühen Informationsverarbeitung mittels Lochkarten entstand aus einem Kunsthandwerk, nämlich aus der Seidenweberei.

Currency: No. 3 is the third issue in a series of artist-driven art publications edited by Sico Carlier that engage with contemporary visual culture, creative production, and interdisciplinary modes of artistic expression.

The English-language publication, designed by Rob van Hoesel, invites the reader to explore the selected projects along different paths. Each project in the book is organised through a set pattern: people, process, product.