Embroidery, Italian Fashion.
If you are passionate about the world of fashion, and thus able to fully appreciate the value of hand worked minute details, sumptuous motifs and precious materials, this impressive book will instantly become your ABC. In fact, it personally inspires me so much in my jewelry-making work that I call it “the Bible”, for it is loaded with full-color photographs, interviews and insightful comments from which I will probably never stop learning.
Embroidery, as you know, is a very delicate art that calls for mental discipline, unbreakable patience and great virtuosity.
Since clothing exists, almost every culture has developed its own methods of adding beauty to a garment, whether by drawing with threads, assembling scraps of fabrics, including beads, crochet, mirrors, shells, leather, feathers, sequins, fur, laces and ribbons in order to create a texture or a decorative pattern.
Nowadays, certain fashion designers are truly passionate about keeping this art and its various techniques not only alive, but actually up to date by further experimenting and manipulating contemporary ways to enrich and complete the garment.
In Italy, Anna Molinari, Blumarine, Dolce & Gabbana, Emilio Pucci, Gianfranco Ferre, Marni, Roberto Cavalli, Versace and others are understanding embroidery as a concept that brings ancient skills and high technology together.
In their quest to creating luxurious beauty, they often get inspired by traditional crafts and vintage pieces -like Veronica Etro who borrowed from antique Japonese patchworks made by peasants and from the patterns of persian carpets; while they can also go totally experimental, as Antonio Marras who’d asked his embroiderers to imitate the “wrongstitch” style of little girls’ first hand works.
As it wonderfully illustrates this constant renewal of techniques by compiling breath taking images of imaginative garments, I believe this book succeeds in demonstrating that, as Valentino says: “unlike wanting and knowing how to do things, creation has no rules” and I highly recommend it to who shares this opinion.
Embroidery, Italian fashion
Damiani 2006.
ISBN 88-89431-23-7
Embroidered cloth cover, english texts.
276 pages
89 Euros
