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Terms and conditions applySkin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture
Brooke Hodge
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Format: Book
Pages: 271
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Date Published: Oct 2006
Stock Code: 58750
ISBN: Title Unavailable
Binding: Hardback
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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.
This is the first comprehensive examination of the many overlaps and visual and intellectual principles that unite fashion and architecture, and is well-illustrated with many images of silly clothes and interesting buildings.
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Review by Pamela Buxton, Freelance Journalist and Culture Editor, Building Design.
Thankfully, Skin + Bones Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture is not another glossy picture book of architect-designed boutiques. It¹s premis is rather deeper - an exploration of the mutual influence of fashion and architecture, both in more architectonic approaches to fashion and the use of techniques more familiar in fashion such as pleating and folding in architecture. It¹s an impressive-sounding and visually-rich topic for exploration, and is also the subject of an exhibition at LA's Museum of Contemporary Art. With Alaia, Comme des Garcons, OMA and Future Systems, among the 46 featured designers and architects, it contains an alluring collection of images. But while the premis give a fresh perspective on how to view both creative disciplines, the argument doesn¹t convince since the parallel practices are not thoroughly explored. Sometimes, it feels more like an exercise in vocabulary beyond a few well-known examples such as Peter Testa¹s spun Carbon Tower, Issey Miyake¹s pleat constructions, and Hussein Chalayan¹s furniture-cum-clothing. The Corian ceiling in Greg Lynn¹s Bloom House, for example, is described in terms of cutting, tucking and seaming. Nonetheless, the book¹s overall slant and fantastic visuals are enjoyable, whether or not you buy into the argument.
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