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Absolutely Fabulous!: Architecture and Fashion - Softcover

Hanisch, Ruth

 
9783791335216: Absolutely Fabulous!: Architecture and Fashion

Synopsis

This is a globetrotting tour of the most spectacularly designed fashion stores. Flagship stores for famous fashion designers have become showcases for high profile architects as well as destinations for style-conscious shoppers. "Absolutely Fabulous!" looks at the collaboration between architecture and fashion from numerous perspectives, including recent developments in fashion, branding, shopping, individualization and globalisation. It also shows how designers themselves are flexing their architectural muscle with cutting-edge display concepts, flash websites and stores that double as galleries, entertainment areas and communal spaces. Designed to be as dynamic as its subject matter, "Absolutely Fabulous!" travels the world to feature the most innovative, revolutionary and influential examples of the synergies between fashion and architecture.

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Review

'If anything's going to make you want to go on a worldwide shopping spree, it's this piece of retail eye-candy.' -- Glamour Magazine, August 1, 2006

‘A paean to shop interiors worldwide, from the innovative and avant-garde to the more classical yet super-glam.’ -- Voyager, August 1, 2006

‘Shopping destinations to die for, because every road needs to be well travelled – in good shoes.’ -- Gay Times, August 1, 2006

‘Takes the reader on a world tour of the world’s most prestigious fashion houses.' -- New Design, July 1, 2006

About the Author

Art historian Ruth Hanisch has worked on numerous exhibitions on architecture and the history of art. She is a contributing editor to Icons of Architecture: The 20th Century, Museum for a New Millennium and Jewish Identity in Contemporary Architecture (all published by Prestel).

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