Couture Interiors: Living with Fashion

Couture Interiors: Living With Fashion

By Marnie Fogg
 

Hardback with dust jacket. Published by Lawrence King Publishing Ltd, London 2007. Approx size: 29cm H x 25cm W (11 1/4" H x 9 3/4" W). 224pp. Illustrated throughout with colour photography.        
 

“The fusion between fashion and interiors has never been more relevant. The proliferation of ideas, the speed of manufacture and an increasingly visually literate consumer have all resulted in interiors being subject to the same desire for innovation, change and trends as fashion.
Many fashion designers extend their aesthetic into interiors and products for the home as a natural progression from clothing the body. The designed object, after all, has to fulfil certain criteria of functionality and desirability whether it is a dress, a range of bed linen, a sofa or wallpaper. The traditional view is that interiors are somehow less subject to the whims of fashion than clothes and that interior trends evolve more gradually. However, the home is now subject to the same directional trends as fashion, in part because so many fashion designers are extending their practice to include interiors.
 

This book examines the imaginative and compelling way in which fashion has permeated interior design. It considers the relationship between fashion on the catwalk and architecture, interiors and products, looking at the work of leading design houses, including Paul Smith, Missoni, Pucci, Issey Miyake, Fendi and Versace. This investigation of the dissemination of trends takes the reader on an eclectic, adventurous excursion into living with fashion."

Lavishly illustrated and informative. 

Book Condition: Jacket a little rubbed; Clean inside; No annotations or tears; Unread. Overall Very Good