Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée par le Metropolitan Museum of Art, à New York, du 7 mai au 7 septembre 2020.
" Traces fashions from 1870 to the present along a conceptual, disruptive, and nontraditional timeline of fashion history.
About Time: Fashion and Duration traces the evolution of fashion, from 1870 to the present, through a linear timeline of iconic garments, each paired with an alternate design that jumps forward or backward in time. These unexpected pairings, which relate to one another through shape, motif, material, pattern, technique, or decoration, create a disruptive fashion chronology that conflates notions of past, present, and future.
Virginia Woolf serves as "ghost narrator,” and excerpts from her novels reflect on the passage of time with each subsequent pairing.
A new short story by Michael Cunningham, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Hours, recounts a day in the life of a woman over a time span of 150 years through her changing fashions. Scholar Theodore Martin analyzes theoretical responses to the nature of time, underscoring that time is not simply a sequence of historical events. Fashion photographer Nicholas Alan Cope captures 120 fashions with sublime black-and-white photography.
This stunning book reveals fashion’s paradoxical connection to linear notions of time. "
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Une très originale évocation de la mode féminine de 1870 à nos jours : 120 vêtements féminins associés par paire - une robe du soir Jacques Fath de 1951 avec un ensemble Yohji Yamamoto de 2005, par exemple - , brièvement décrits et photographiés en noir et blanc par Nicholas Alan COPE.
Toutes les photographies - quatre par association - sont à pleine page, bien imprimées sur papier mat :
Elsa Schiaparelli, Alexander McQueen, Martin Margiela, Comme des Garçons, Viktor & Rolf, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Gabrielle Chanel, Jeanne Lanvin, Mainbocher, John Galliano, G. Versace, Charles James, A. Alaïa, Yves Saint Laurent, Jacques Griffe, Prada, H. de Givenchy, C. Balenciaga, Gaultier, K. Lagerfeld, Charles James, Ch. Lacroix, M. Vionnet, M. Fortuny, etc.
.Légendes des planches (vignettes en noir et blanc)
New York, The Metroplitan Museum of Art, 2020, 24.8 x 32.5 cm, plein skivertex noir, LXXXIV-364 pages.
9781588396884
TEXTE EN ANGLAIS
librairie couleur du temps, metroplitan museum of art, cope, mode, fashion, habit, habillement, vêtement, tissu, textile, design,
