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Ralph Rucci The Art of Weightlessness
by Steele, Valerie & Clare Sauro & Patricia Mears
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0300122780
- ISBN 13
- 9780300122787
- Seller
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About This Item
E-344: Yale University Press. Very Good. 2007. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT in association with the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. 2007. 187 pgs. Illustrated. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Working quietly and without much public attention for more than 20 years, American fashion designer Ralph Rucci suddenly became a headline topic in 2002, when he was invited to show his collection at the haute couture in Paristhe first American to receive such an invitation since Mainbocher in the 1930s. This sumptuously illustrated book is the first to explore in depth Ruccis life and work, including the inspirations behind the extraordinarily beautiful and very expensive clothes he creates. The contributors to the volume explore many aspects of Ruccis genius and emergence as a master in the fashion world. Valerie Steele places his life and work in the context of modern fashion history and discusses his connections with such figures as Balenciaga and Halston. Patricia Mears closely examines the garments he designs, reveals what makes them so special, and considers influences on his work. Clare Sauro describes Ruccis accessories, which complete the aesthetic vision that his fashions embody. The book is enriched with more than 100 photographs that include runway images, fashion shots of Ruccis clients, Chado Ralph Rucci garments from the collection of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and from his own archives, as well as various inspirational objects and fashions. EB; 12.8 X 8.98 X 0.95 inches; 187 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67316
- Title
- Ralph Rucci The Art of Weightlessness
- Author
- Steele, Valerie & Clare Sauro & Patricia Mears
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0300122780
- ISBN 13
- 9780300122787
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- E-344
- Date Published
- 2007
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