Prada
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 888702944X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 704 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sung Joong Kim is a designer at 2x4.. About the AuthorFashion designer Miuccia Prada inherited the Prada company in 1978, and with her husband entrepreneur Patrizio Bertelli built it into one of the world's leading and innovative fashion and design companies. Prada brings to her work a deep commitment to the visual and performing arts, a history of political activism on the left, and an openness to new materials and ideas. Michael Rock is a founding partner and creative director of the award-winning design firm 2x4 in New York and Professor of Design at the Yale University School of Art
Fashion designer Miuccia Prada inherited the Prada company in 1978, and with her husband entrepreneur Patrizio Bertelli built it into one of the world's leading and innovative fashion and design companies. Sung Joong Kim is a designer at 2x4.. Prada brings to her work a deep commitment to the v
Prada is the first book that documents three decades of ground-breaking fashion, architecture, film and art by the Prada company, including the work of the design studio and the workshop; extensive creative partnerships with photographers, designers, architects and film directors; and large scale architectural commissions, the Fondazione Prada, and the development of a new museum. Among the many features of this rich innovative book with its thousands of images are a photo-essay by renowned photographer Brigitte Lacombe, stills taken from short films documenting the craftsmanship of the factory, images of the unique fashion show environments, an overview of all Miuccia Prada's collections with thumbnail pictures of 3,885 different looks,” collages of the most influential shoe and bags, photographs of the final product on the runway, celebrated store designs in New York and Los Angeles by Rem Koolhaas/OMAand in Tokyo by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, a film collaboration with director Ridley Scott, Koolhaas’s radical Prada Transformer” pavilion in Seoul, costume designs for a Japanese manga heroine, Prada found on the street and celebrities photographed on the red carpet, and blogs expressing the almost fanatical devotion of lovers of the brand. Prada both chronicles and epitomizes the achievements of one of the world's most influential and enlightened fashion and design companies.
"A Beautiful Book" according to DAJ. This is a very well done book, showing many of the facets of the business of Prada--the history, the manufacturing, the stores, and, above all, the clothes. Any fan of Prada will get hours and hours of pleasure looking through this tome. The photos are gorgeous. I think it could have been better in a couple of ways. 1) The complete collections are reduced to small thumbnail layouts. The clothes are central to Prada's legacy, so other areas of the book could have been reduced to allow for larger photos of the collections. 2) I would have liked some critical texts on the importance o. The Prada Encyclopedia This book is probably not for everyone, but if you collect, wear or just appreciate Prada, you must have this. The book itself is beautiful, solid and well-made, and presented in classic Prada styling (understated logo, deep blue-purple color packaging).I am so happy that this book exists. It's thrilling to look at Prada's collections throughout the years: in this format, you can see her incredible talent and creativity, and her delightfully perverse, political sense of humor. Also very apparent in this format is the vast reach of her influence on other high-fashion designers over . Lilly Ford said NiceBut Could've Been Better !!!. I usually collect fashion monographs and I enjoy all of them, so I decided to add this one to my collection despite the mixed reviews. However, I've to admit that I'm a little disappointed in this book, it's not bad, it's "nice" but there was enough space for many improvements. The campaigns part is the one I mostly enjoyed, although I would have liked it to be twice as thick. As one reviewer here mentioned the pages devoted to the thumbnails could have been used to show more viewable items, since those pages are basically a waste of space, since those can't be seen without a magni