Main entry:

Hodge, Brooke, 1960-

Title & Author:

Skin and bones : parallel practices in fashion and architecture / organized by Brooke Hodge ; essays by Brooke Hodge and Patricia Mears ; afterword by Susan Sidlauskas.

Publication:

New York ; London : Thames & Hudson, 2006.

Description:

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm

Notes:
Published in connection with an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 19 November 2006-5 March 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-268).
Skin + bones : parallel practices in fashion and architecture / Brooke Hodge -- Creative process : Narciso Rodriguez / Jacky Marshall -- Fraying the edges : fashion and deconstruction / Patricia Mears -- Deconstruction and architecture : conflicting interpretations / Brooke Hodge -- Parallel practices : architects and designers in the exhibition -- Afterword / Susan Sidlauskas.

Summary:

"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."-- Book description.

ISBN:

050051318X (hard)
9780500513187

Subject:

Architecture, Postmodern Exhibitions.
Fashion History 20th century Exhibitions.
Fashion and architecture Exhibitions.
Architecture postmoderne Expositions.
Mode et architecture Expositions.
Architecture, Postmodern
Fashion
Fashion and architecture
Fashion Effect of architecture on Exhibitions.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs
History

Added entries:

Mears, Patricia.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Skin + bones

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250351
Call No.: BIB 179858
Status: Available