Product Description

The first comprehensive examination of the many overlaps and visual and intellectual principles that unite fashion and architecture.

In recent years, the boundaries between architecture and fashion have become increasingly blurred, and this beautifully illustrated new book explores the intersections and concepts that underlie the two disciplines. Both architecture and fashion are based on the human body and on ideas of space, volume, and movement. Each functions as shelter or wrapping for the body—a mediating layer between the body and the environment—and can express personal, political, and cultural identity.

Fashion designers and architects share much of the same vocabulary and similar techniques of construction: pinning, darting, folding, wrapping, draping. Fashion designers have always been able to achieve complex, often architectonic garments using fabric. Today, many architects are looking to fashion and techniques of tailoring as they attempt to achieve more and more complex forms using hard materials.

The book focuses on the period 1980 to the present and includes forty-six architects and fashion designers from the United States, Europe, and Japan. The featured designers include Issey Miyake, Junya Watanabe, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, and Vivienne Westwood, among others. The architects include Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Eisenman Architects. 530 illustrations, 500 in color.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #511372 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

About the Author
Brooke Hodge is Curator of Architecture & Design at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. There are also texts by Patricia Mears and Mark Wigley.

Customer Reviews

Skin + Bones
What an incredible catalogue of highly inventive, genius artists' work! A must-have for anyone interested in truly avant garde design- especially clothing. I even was turned on to a designer I wasn't familiar with and now we're corresponding. Just a beautiful, highest quality publication- a real collector's item. I promise, whether or not you were lucky enough to see the London exhibit, you'll be thrilled and inspired by the catalogue.

amazing
If you are interested in alternative views on architecture, especially on the subject of skin in architeture, skin+bones is a great exemple. The exposition as well as the book cover a long period in the history of modern fashion and architecture in order to portrait all those who change the way we conceive both architecture and clothing.
Amazon is a great way to purchase books which are rare in you region and sometimes even less expensive. skin+bones arrived on time and in great condition, new as descibed.