Description
'The perfect printed tool for Prada fans everywhere' Wallpaper*
Founded as a luxury leather goods house in 1913 in Milan, Prada entered the field of fashion when Miuccia Prada took the helm of the family company in 1979. After initially focusing exclusively on accessories, she presented the house's first fashion collection in 1988. She would soon transform Prada into one of the world's most influential luxury brands with a deeply personal, sophisticated and subtly subversive approach.
This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by a brief biographical profile of Miuccia Prada, before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images that showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs - and, of course, the top fashion models who wore them on the runway, from Naomi Campbell and Gisele to Kate Moss and Kaia Gerber. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.
'The perfect printed tool for Prada fans everywhere, vying to decode the designer's famed aesthetic, her obsessions and eccentricities and the brand's boundary-breaking sensibility' Wallpaper*
About the Author
Susannah Frankel is editor-in-chief of Another magazine. Previously fashion director of Grazia magazine, she was fashion editor of the Independent from 1999 to 2012. She is the author of Visionaries - Interviews With Fashion Designers and has contributed to many books and exhibition catalogues, including Dries Van Noten 1-100, Stephen Jones: Souvenirs, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty and The House of Viktor & Rolf.
Reviews
'The perfect printed tool for Prada fans everywhere, vying to decode the designer's famed aesthetic, her obsessions and eccentricities and the brand's boundary-breaking sensibility' - Wallpaper*
'[Shows how Prada] became one of the world's most influential designer brands, with a quietly subversive attitude all its own' - BBC Online
'Glossy photographs of Prada's amazing creations are bound to inspire' - SEW
'The infamous Catwalk book series, published by Thames & Hudson, are made up of the modern day fashion worshipper's holy bibles ... The Catwalk books are extraordinary in mapping out fashion trajectories lost to the pre-digital age' - SHOWStudio
Book Information
ISBN 9780500022047
Author Susannah Frankel
Format Hardback
Page Count 632
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight(grams) 2780g
Founded as a luxury leather goods house in 1913 in Milan, Prada entered the field of fashion when Miuccia Prada took the helm of the family company in 1979. After initially focusing exclusively on accessories, she presented the house's first fashion collection in 1988. She would soon transform Prada into one of the world's most influential luxury brands with a deeply personal, sophisticated and subtly subversive approach.
This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by a brief biographical profile of Miuccia Prada, before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images that showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs - and, of course, the top fashion models who wore them on the runway, from Naomi Campbell and Gisele to Kate Moss and Kaia Gerber. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.
'The perfect printed tool for Prada fans everywhere, vying to decode the designer's famed aesthetic, her obsessions and eccentricities and the brand's boundary-breaking sensibility' Wallpaper*
About the Author
Susannah Frankel is editor-in-chief of Another magazine. Previously fashion director of Grazia magazine, she was fashion editor of the Independent from 1999 to 2012. She is the author of Visionaries - Interviews With Fashion Designers and has contributed to many books and exhibition catalogues, including Dries Van Noten 1-100, Stephen Jones: Souvenirs, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty and The House of Viktor & Rolf.
Reviews
'The perfect printed tool for Prada fans everywhere, vying to decode the designer's famed aesthetic, her obsessions and eccentricities and the brand's boundary-breaking sensibility' - Wallpaper*
'[Shows how Prada] became one of the world's most influential designer brands, with a quietly subversive attitude all its own' - BBC Online
'Glossy photographs of Prada's amazing creations are bound to inspire' - SEW
'The infamous Catwalk book series, published by Thames & Hudson, are made up of the modern day fashion worshipper's holy bibles ... The Catwalk books are extraordinary in mapping out fashion trajectories lost to the pre-digital age' - SHOWStudio
Book Information
ISBN 9780500022047
Author Susannah Frankel
Format Hardback
Page Count 632
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight(grams) 2780g
