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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The imaginative and intelligent collections created in the 1980s and 1990s by Gianni Versace (1946-1997) have earned him a position of prominence in the history of late-twentieth century fashion. Many think of Versace primarily as flamboyant and outrageous a designer whose sources were those of the street and popular culture. But while this is true Versace was also as interested and knowledgeable in the history of both art and fashion as he was in Hollywood rock “image” and the runway. His costumes blend past and present high and pop culture and the result is fashion appropriate for the nineties. He always retained a fierce individuality unabashedly open in his penchant for sensuality in both womenswear and menswear. A regular visitor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art he attended exhibitions at The Costume Institute with great enthusiasm and also looked at the art in other galleries avidly. He deeply admired the classicism of Madame Gr?s and spent hours studying her work at The Costume Institute’s 1994 exhibition. In addition Versace’s last collection was partially inspired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 1997 exhibition “The Glory of Byzantium.” This publication and the exhibition that it accompanies commemorate Versace’s unique achievement placing him for the first time in the realm of the museum and of history. Gone are the super-models the glitz of the media and the spectacle of the runways but the splendor remains in Versaces creations even when seen as they are in the pages of this book stripped of their previous accoutrements and elegantly displayed on museum mannequins. (MP)