A lively and multifaceted portrait of a true icon of the fashion world of the 1970s. Universally rewned as the master of the total look, Walter Albini created his first collection in 1963. After a meeting with Mariuccia Mandelli he worked with the Krizia atelier and, during his latest season, beside Karl Lagerfeld. Research on dress-making and fabric is one of the all-time features of Albini's work, to whom must be ascribed the birth of a new kind of relationship between the designer and the fabric manufacturer, opening a new groupage concept for advertising on specialized periodicals. This book addresses a crucial moment in the history of fashion: the birth of pret-a-porter with the definitive overcoming of the atelier and the achievement of a certain democracy in fashion. Walter Albini was a protagonist of this moment, aware as he was of the necessity for change and invation in people's taste.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Marsilio
ISBN-10
8831799681
ISBN-13
9788831799683
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96841985
Dimensions
Weight
1139g
Height
251mm
Width
200mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Milan
Spine
24mm
Content Note
380 Colour and Black and White
Author Biography
Maria Luisa Frisa is director of the graduate course in fashion design at the IUAV in Venice, and fashion curator of the Fondazione Pitti Discovery. She is also editor of the Mode series. Stefano Tonchi is the editor of T, the New York Times style magazine.
