Rare bird of fashion : the irreverent Iris Apfel / Eric Boman. With an introd. by Harold Koda and an autobiographical text by Iris Apfel.
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TextPublication details: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2010.Edition: ReprDescription: 158 S. : überwiegend Ill. ; 32 cmISBN: - 0500513449
- 9780500513446
- 746.92 APF
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 746.92 APF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100560698 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
With remarkable panache and discernment, Iris Apfel combines styles, colors, textures, and patterns without regard to period, provenance, or aesthetic conventions. She is a unique style icon.
Over ninety sumptuous color plates, photographed by Eric Boman, show off a selection of Apfel's extraordinary outfits on wittily posed mannequins, some sporting her trademark outsized spectacles. The originality of her style is typically revealed in her mixing of Dior haute couture with flea-market finds, Dolce & Gabbana lizard trousers with nineteenth-century ecclesiastical vestments, pink Lanvin worn with ropes of Navajo turquoise. Apfel's eclectic pieces might come from a Parisian couture house, an American thrift shop, or a North African souk, or they may have been made to her own design in a tiny studio.
Detailed captions describe every aspect of the outfits, including names and dates of designers, plus full information on fabrics and accessories. A selection of audacious accessories also comes under the spotlight: a giant necklace made of bear claws, a turn-of-the-century Indian horse ornament worn as a necklace, a parrot's-head brooch in colored glass and rhinestones.
The book includes an introduction by Harold Koda, director of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an essay by Apfel herself, describing her lifelong love affair with style and illustrated with vintage photographs from her personal collection.
This book is based on the exhibition Rara Avis : selections from the Iris Barrel Apfel collection held at the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 13, 2005 - January 22, 2006, and published after the closing of the exhibition ; the exhibition Rare bird of fashion: the irreverent Iris Apfel held at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, February 25-May 27, 2007.