Thom Browne
Phaidon Press Limited
London, 2023; paperback, pp. 424, col. ill., cm 21,5x29.
ISBN: 1-83866-704-0 - EAN13: 9781838667047
Subject: Design,Essays (Art or Architecture),Textiles (Tapestries, Carpets, Embroyderies)
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Weight: 2.57 kg
With a celebrity clientele including Cardi B, Michelle Obama, LeBron James, and Julia Roberts, among others, Thom Browne is widely recognized for modernizing today's professional uniform: the suit. As the company's 20th anniversary nears, Thom Browne. celebrates the legacy of the house.
Specially commissioned photography by Johnny Dufort features more than 200 looks from past seasons. An introduction by Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu curator in charge of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and creative director of this title, sets the work in context.
The book concludes with a tableau of show installations that further illustrate the house's design philosophy and evolution. Published as a hardback enclosed in a clamshell box, the book includes 4-, 6-, and 8-pages gatefolds and more than 40 translucent vellum pages featuring the brand's signature four stripes. It also includes a Thom Browne grosgrain ribbon.