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«Nuevos títulos acaparan tendencias en tapa dura. Terry Jones rastra 30 años de archivos del trabajo de Vivienne Westwood, Rei Kawakubo y Yohji Yamamoto... Un cruce de caminos en una colección de libros que la editorial TASCHEN lanza como Nemésis a los coffe table books. La moda vuelve a encerrarse entre tapas duras en plena efervescencia digital... El material seleccionado se organiza como un gran vestidor de cada homenajeado en 120 páginas. Yamamoto, Westwood y Kawakubo traspasaron las lindes de la moda para terminar rubricando el testimonio de una época. Con esta prerrogativa, Terry Jones pretende que la empresa iniciada continúe su camino con el trabajo de Nicholas Ghesquière, antes y después de Balenciaga; con el periplo creativo de Raf Simons, por Jil Sanders y ahora Dior, y las hermanas Mulleavy, ideadoras de Rodarte.»— SModa, El País, Madrid, España
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“When “fuck yeah” Tumblrs and other online resources saturate our lives with a back-lit visual infinity, how can print compete? i-D founder and Creative Director Terry Jones, along with the publishers at TASCHEN, have a seductive solution that I’m calling BBW. That is, print Big, print Beautiful, and source Well. BBW is why you would buy Jones and TASCHEN’s new Designer Monographs book series. Too big for most shelves, the books call for open, horizontal storage, for passing-by perusal. The first designers to be monographed are Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto and Vivienne Westwood.. The content is culled from Jones and i-D’s extensive archive and it reminds that, for all the vastness of the web, there is an even more endless supply of material yet to be scanned. At the same time, the series updates print with a net mentality, as each monograph is organized more like a fan blog than a traditional catalog: images and quotes are assembled associatively rather than chronologically, allowing for the kind of affective juxtapositions and cluttered mimesis of the mind that the Internet does so well. The series will continue with the next two books featuring Raf Simons and Rick Owens, designers who, like Kawakubo, Yamamoto and Westwood, were selected for having, ‘successfully created international reputations with their unique visions, and founded a base for inspiring future generations of new designers.’”— Bullett Magazine, New York, United States
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“When “fuck yeah” Tumblrs and other online resources saturate our lives with a back-lit visual infinity, how can print compete? i-D founder and Creative Director Terry Jones, along with the publishers at TASCHEN, have a seductive solution that I’m calling BBW. That is, print Big, print Beautiful, and source Well. BBW is why you would buy Jones and TASCHEN’s new Designer Monographs book series. Too big for most shelves, the books call for open, horizontal storage, for passing-by perusal. The first designers to be monographed are Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto and Vivienne Westwood.. The content is culled from Jones and i-D’s extensive archive and it reminds that, for all the vastness of the web, there is an even more endless supply of material yet to be scanned. At the same time, the series updates print with a net mentality, as each monograph is organized more like a fan blog than a traditional catalog: images and quotes are assembled associatively rather than chronologically, allowing for the kind of affective juxtapositions and cluttered mimesis of the mind that the Internet does so well. The series will continue with the next two books featuring Raf Simons and Rick Owens, designers who, like Kawakubo, Yamamoto and Westwood, were selected for having, ‘successfully created international reputations with their unique visions, and founded a base for inspiring future generations of new designers.’”— Bullett Magazine, New York, États-Unis
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Magazine editor in chief and art director, who was long acquainted with both Japanese designers. Jones’ relationship with Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo provided special access to the two fashion innovators for a more intimate, closer look at who they are. Unlike media-shy Kawakubo, Yamamoto clearly enjoys sharing his thoughts on women, the female form and the process of creating avant-garde ‘Anti-Fashion’ clothing in the international high fashion world. The Rei Kawakubo book - though equally striking visually - tends to be less personal, focusing instead on her work and her vision for her future fashion-related business plans… The two volumes, a compilation of collected images and
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