Gods and Kings The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano

Name: Gods and Kings The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
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ISBN: 9781594204944

ISBN-10: 1594204942

ISBN-13: 9781594204944

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Authors: Dana Thomas

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In February 2011, John Galliano, the lauded head of Christian Dior, imploded with a drunken, anti-Semitic public tirade. Exactly a year earlier, celebrated designer Alexander McQueen took his own life three weeks before his women’s wear show. Both were casualties of the war between art and commerce that has raged within fashion for the last two decades.In the mid-1990s, Galliano and McQueen arrived on the fashion scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with daring, sexy designs and theatrical fashion shows.They had similar backgrounds: sensitive, shy gay men raised in tough London neighborhoods,…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 2/10/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Dana Thomashas been the fashion writer for Newsweekin Paris since 1995. She writes about style for The New York Times Magazineand contributes to a number of publications including The New Yorkerand Harpers Bazaar.