Azzedine Alaïa - Alaïa - 1998

ALAÏA AZZEDINE - STEIDL SPECIAL 1998 LIMITED RELEASE, ULTRA LARGE, WITH SLIPCASE AND BOX, VERY GOOD.

ALAÏA, Majestic ultra large-format book by the famous fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa. A rare, unpublished copy, nearly 5,000 kg + rigid slipcase, 286 illustrated pages, Book in the Limited Steidl Verlag 1998 edition, approximate dimensions 44x36x5 cm, and featuring the complete body of fashion creations by the timeless Azzedine Alaïa! The copy is in excellent condition, in a luxurious and very limited edition!

Limited edition of 1998, published within the prestigious Steidl publishing house. Very large-format book, with the original rigid slipcase, oversized fold-out pages, protected by a thick translucent dust jacket. Hard cover in finely embroidered fabric, title inscription in relief and gold color on a deep spruce green cover background. Thick cover with fabric having a pleasant feel. Very large pages printed in HD on thick high-grade paper for this limited edition (paper weight > 260 g/m²).

This monumental book presents the essentials of the entire body of exceptional fashion creations by Azzedine Alaïa, in an extensively illustrated, full-page format, primarily an illustrated universal edition. Fashion designs and previously unseen shots dedicated to this edition, featuring fashion models and color-illustrated pages. Edition supplied with the original slipcase.

Azzedine Alaïa is among the great masters of contemporary aesthetics. His success as a fashion designer is exemplary, and his method of shaping the female silhouette marked the eighties. He dressed the biggest stars, and some feel he transformed the way women are seen through his talent. This book is a tribute to the couturier who, early in his life, thought he would become a sculptor. The superb photographs gathered here reveal Alaïa’s dreamlike universe, his boundless creativity, and his incomparable sense of beauty. In this book, models and garments are admirably showcased by stunning photography and a beautiful layout. The artist bears witness to a talent akin to Roversi or Demarchelier in photography, with a unique touch in fashion creation, comparable to Jean-Paul Gaultier or Yves Saint Laurent in a related field. This book is the most complete and unprecedented publication dedicated to the very talented and perfectly inimitable fashion designer Alaïa.

If you are looking for a luxury collectible book, rare, out of print, limited, in perfect condition, magnificent, and an inexhaustible source of inspiration, then this lot is FOR YOU!

Condition: Excellent.

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