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

About the book >.>.> The closest female followers of fashion have spoken of Roberto Capucci as removing dothes from the “tyranny of the body” of the body being made grometric and “only used as a support for his works.” The opposite. apparently of the lines cuts and forms used to exalt the body. But perhaps one should use the eyes of a man to look at Capucci’s dothes at his “fans” his “overlays” his “petals” and his Baroque triumphs to understand the extent to which the creativity of this designer has not been distanced from an amorous idea of the female body. Capucci considers a dress “a habitat of fabrics an ornate form and a cave to live in.” This is the least abstract concept of fashion possible because designing a “habitat” presupposes having a deep knowledge of the person who must live there of her way of moving and living “I create for women not for mannequins” said Capucci. “This reputation for abstractness lines and forms for their own sake is one I have always had to live with. At the end of the 1950’s I designed square lines and box forms. These are repeatedly turning up in my work. At the time it was a huge (LL)