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100 Dresses: The Costume Institute by Harold Koda
$35.95 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
What woman can resist imagining herself in a beautiful designer dress? Here, for the first time ever, are 100 fabulous gowns from the permanent collection of the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each of which is a reminder of the ways fashion reflects the broader culture tha ...Show more
100 Shoes: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Harold Koda
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
A hundred pairs of shoes, from the 16th to the 21st century, paint a vivid picture of how shoe styles have changed-sometimes radically-over the years. They also reveal how some trends have reappeared throughout the ages. For instance, platform shoes were worn by fashionable Venetian women from the 15th ...Show more
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty by Andrew Bolton
$73.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
Arguably the most influential, imaginative, and provocative designer of his generation, Alexander McQueen both challenged and expanded fashion conventions to express ideas about race, class, sexuality, religion, and the environment. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the desig ...Show more
Charles James - Beyond Fashion by Harold Koda
$68.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Charles James, often considered to be America's first couturier, was renowned in the 1940s and 1950s as a master at sculpting fabric for the female form and creating fashions that defined mid-century glamour. Although James had no formal training as a dressmaker, he created strikingly original and compl ...Show more
How to Read Oceanic Art by Eric Kjellgren
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art from Oceania, the region encompassing the islands of the central and south Pacific, spans hundreds of distinct artistic processes, formats and mediums. Many people's exposure to Oceanic art comes through its influence on the work of European artists, and therefore Oceanic works themselves often rema ...Show more
Jewels by Jar by Adrian Sassoon
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Called "the Faberge of our time" by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewellery designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious stones resplendent with myriad shades of vibrant colour a ...Show more
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations by Harold Koda
$59.95 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
Although separated by time, Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli - both Italian, both feminists - share striking affinities in terms of their design strategies and fashion manifestoes. Presented as an intimate "conversation", "Schiaparelli and Prada" aims to tease out formal and conceptual similarities b ...Show more
The Metropolitan Museum's Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts by Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide (Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Arts)
$57.95 AUD
Category: Interiors | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
The Metropolitan's holdings of late 17th- and 18th-century French decorative arts, unrivaled outside Europe, are on display in nine magnificent paneled period rooms and three galleries. This suite of spaces is named for Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, whose extraordinary generosity made the installatio ...Show more
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