books by Harold Koda

books by Harold Koda

books:

Harold Koda

Dean L. Merceron

Rizzoli, 2007

GORGEOUSLY PRETTY
PRETTY can have a negative connotation....but NOT here. Truly PRETTY PRETTY illustrations and clothes. Lanvin clearly very different from the other greats. Her clothes are,well, dare I say PRETTY in the very best sense. Lots of pics and a real delight to see her work ...

Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel

Eric Boman, Iris Apfel

Thames & Hudson, 2007

Iris Apfel, what a rare bird indeed...
I was lucky enough to view the exhibit 'Iris Apfel - Rare Bird of Fashion' at the Norton Museum in Palm Beach, and what a visual treat it was... Not only is she an icon of fashion, but her style, her combinations of colors and her very different approach to the matter ...

Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity
Kohle Yohannan

Rizzoli, 2009

Valentina was the twentieth century?s first American fashion designer celebrity, working and living on equal social footing with the clientele she dressed (Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Katharine Hepburn, Millicent Rogers, and Audrey Hepburn, among others). One of the few designers who proved that America could live without the Parisian haute ...

AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

Andrew Bolton, Harold Koda

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007

Wonderful.....
If you were lucky enough to see this show you know what a wonderful, edgy but beautiful exhibit it was. I was so happy there would be a book and anticipated it for many many months. I know that no book can recreate the actual expereince of being there so just having ...

Chanel (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005

collectors and couturiéres
I am a couturiére to follow my passion and, of course, I already own a bunch of "Mademoiselle Chanel" books. Let's say that I own a couple of meters of fashion monographies and that I love this one. If you are interested in feeling the details of the artwork of both, ...

Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton, ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006

Delightful dressing
This is a fabulous insight into 18th Century French society. As a costume designer, I found the inclusion of paintings from that period, intermixed with the museum settings to be of particular interest. The close-up photographs of details were also wonderful. The ...

Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008

Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
It was great to purchase this book through Amazon. It was a gift for my daughter's birthday and it was going to cost $90 in an art bookshop in the city so I was thrilled to purchase it through Amazon at less that half this cost. Keep up the great work guys. I'll ...

American Style
Kelly Killoren Bensimon

Assouline, 2004

Poiret (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007

Marvelous!
Mr. Koda and The Costume Institute scores with this lovely exhibition catalog! While not as lavish or sumptuous as The Philadelphia Museum of Art's 2003 Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli by Dilys Blum (at this juncture the absolute gold standard for ...

Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Harold Koda

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004

Human preoccupation for Millennia
Sentient humans with brains as well as bodies have always been fascinated by the way we adorn ourselves and why. Once we can get past the cultural anthropology of fashion, and the fads that make it a billion-dollar world industry, we can dig down to discover the roots ...

Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Harold Koda, Kohle Yohannan

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009

Model & Muse explores fashion?s reciprocal relationship to iconic beauties that represent the evolution and changing face of the feminine ideal. Featuring a brief historical overview of the phenomenon of the supermodel, the book begins in the early 20th century and continues to the present day. Dorian Leigh and Lisa Fonssagrives in the 1940s are ...

Haute Couture

Harold Koda, Richard Martin, ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995

Contains excellent photographs- from Dior to present day.
It contains beautiful color photos of the couture garments design by the following houses: Balenciaga, Chanell, Dior, Jacques Fath, Gianfranco Fere, Hubert de Givenchy, Aliz Gres, Jacques Griffe, Christian Lacroix, Carl Lagerfeld, Jeanne Lanvin, Patou, Poiret, Saint ...

Beth Levine Shoes
Helene Verin

Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2009

If you love shoes?and who doesn't??you know that nothing says as much about a woman?s style as her taste in footwear. Long before Jimmy Choo and Christian Louboutin, Beth Levine was designing shoes that were objects of desire and even lust. Levine, who introduced mules, stilettos, and fashion boots to the American market, was a visionary. Born a ...

Giorgio Armani (Guggenheim Museum Publications)

Germano Celant, Harold Koda

Harry N. Abrams, 2000

Comprehensive Historical Reference
This is not a typical fashion tome. The authors have traced the historical influences of Mr. Armani as well as validlly documenting his contribution to history (both in terms of fashion and in sociological influence). The photographs are well chosen and show the ...

Goddess: The Classical Mode (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Harold Koda

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003

The ancient world re-interpreted anew
This is an exhibition catalogue for the Metropolitan Museum of Art costume institute. It chronicles the influence the fashions of ancient Greece and Rome has had in more modern times on women's costume. Printed on a very nice matt paper (even for photos) it contrasts ...