The Art Of Fashion A Journal

"WORN is reclaiming fashion as something that can be exciting, challenging, different, quirky, interesting, not just as something you have to consume."—Jane Pratt, from her foreword The WORN Archive: A Fashion Journal about the Arts, Ideas, and History of What We Wear is a manifesto on why fashion and clothing matter. For eight years, the Canadian magazine has investigated the intersections of fashion, pop culture, and art. With prescient, intelligent articles, WORN Fashion Journal strives to address diverse issues such as gender, identity, and culture with openness and honesty. WORN asserts that fashion is art, history, ideas, and most of all fun—that style is a personal experience that need not align with the fashion industry. The four-hundred-page book features the best content from the journal's first fourteen issues, assembled by WORN'S founder and editor in chief, Serah-Marie McMahon. Articles penned by a host of unique contributors (academics, writers, curators, and artists) touch on topics as wide-ranging as the relationship between feminism and fashion, discourse on hijabs, how to tie a tie, the history of flight attendants, and textile conservation. With eclectic photo shoots featuring "real" models, striking illustrations, and whimsical layouts, every page is a joyful, creative approach to clothing. The WORN Archive is the ultimate cultural style map for those who don't want to be told how to dress but are seeking a transformative understanding of why we wear what we do.

We deal with fashion every time we open our closets to get dressed. Some of us love putting together a look that tells the world who we are, while others are more practical with their daily choices. Either way (and whether we think about it or not), we all have personal style. This unique, in-depth journal combines practical motivation and wisdom with the spirited fun of fashion to help you perfect your best style. The Art of Fashion provides the in-depth information, guidance and space for creating a fully functional fashion look best suited to your personality and body type. Focused sections are devoted to everything from understanding measurements and fabrics to organizing your closet and planning your most productive shopping trips. Additional sections are devoted to fashion components such as dresses, pants, outerwear, and accessories (shoes, handbags, jewelry, and more). Prompts, tips, timeless garments, and inspiration are sprinkled throughout to help inspire new fashion ideas…whether you’re planning a night out or preparing for a major job interview. With a mix of lined and unlined sections perfect for note taking and sketching of potential outfits; creating looks for specific events, and jotting down fashion inspirations; this is the perfect gift for the fashionista in your life!

Contemporary fashion designers increasingly work in the field of the visual arts and so influence the art world. the exhibition "The art of fashion": Installing Allusions" focuses on the dynamic boundary between fashion and art. At th heart of the exhibition are exclusive new works by five of the world’s leading fashion designers. Specially for the exhibition The H+F Fashion on the Edge Foundations has invited Viktor & Rolf, Naomi Filmer, Hussein Chalayan, anna-Nicole Ziesche and Walter van Beirendonck to create new works that abandon the principle of wearable clothing. the themes suggested by these commissioned works are explored in more than fifty objects by an international group of artists and designers who work in a similar manner. Exhibiton; Museum Boijmans van Beuninging, Rotterdam; Sept. 19th 2009 - Jan. 10th, 2010.

A history of the women who taught Americans how to dress in the first half of the 20th century—and whose lessons we’d do well to remember today.

The clothes worn by our ancestors afford an invaluable insight into lifestyles that have disappeared. Choice of dress at any point in time is determined by a number of factors, such as social and economic pressures, moral codes, technical advances, influence of designers and artisitc movements, and the vagaries of individual taste.

Frida Kahlo was not only an iconic artist, she was also a bold beauty and an avant-garde fashionista whose timeless sense of style continues to inspire and influence the worlds of fashion, media, and art today.

Montréal is à la mode. A fashionable city in its own right, it also boasts fashion schools, an industry packed with local designers and manufacturers and a dynamic scene that exhibits local and international collections. With its vibrant cultural life and affordable cost of living, designers and artists flock from all over to be a part of Montréal’s hip fashion community. MontréalChic is the first book to document this scene and how it connects with the city’s design, film, music and cultural history. Scholars Katrina Sark and Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud are intimately acquainted with Montréal and use their firsthand knowledge of the city’s fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes and subcultures, along the way uncovering many untold stories of Montréal’s fashion scene.