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books by Harold Koda

books:

Poiret (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

6 reviews
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 Costume exhibition catalogs) this remains nonetheless an absolutely gorgeous volume. A perfect counterpoint if you will, to the even ...

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

5 reviews
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 of historical and current adorned beauty, and EXTREME BEAUTY does this . . . beautifully. It is pleasing--in an era in which ...

Lanvin

3 reviews
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 in depth. I can't speak to the text because I buy books for the pics. Also, very little on the current designer. Almost all the ...

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

1 review
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 examples of ancient art such as statues and painted vases with the work of later fashion designers. We get examples of the work ...

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

1 review
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 definitely use your service again.

Chanel (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

12 reviews
Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005

Keepsake Book
This is a beautiful book and one you would love to have in your home. Of course, since I work for the company it is dear to me. I have given this book to three different people and they all have loved it. If you want to give something special to someone-- this is it.

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

4 reviews
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 the visual representations in the photographs, which by the way I found to be very good, it looked just the way it looked when you ...

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 couture, her career is a much needed missing link in the history of American fashion. Beyond merely ...

Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel

5 reviews
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 is something everybody should see and study. I have seen and met her in New York, she is the most terrific person!!! The book is ...

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

16 reviews
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 text was fascinating and very enjoyable reading. It's very often tempting to take things out of context according to one's own ...

American Style
Kelly Killoren Bensimon

Assouline, 2004

Haute Couture

4 reviews
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 Laurent, Schiaparelli, Ungaro, Versace, Madeleine Vionnet & the House of Worth. The table of contents lists "History, Atelier, ...

Christian Dior

4 reviews
Richard Martin, Harold Koda, ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1996

An Exquisite Album of Christian Dior's Work
This is a portrait album of a sampling of Christian Dior's masterpieces shown in the 1996 New York Metropolitain Museum of Art's retrospective. Every garment is beautifully captured. The detail photographs are exceptional. But this is more than just a picture book about the 11 years Dior designed under his own name. The text offers a balance of historical costume references that Dior used in ...

Historical Mode: Fashion and Art in the 1980s

1 review
Richard Martin, Harold Koda

Rizzoli, 1989

Re-relevant in fashion's present.
The thesis of the historical mode is always worth re-visiting, although it was addressing that moment at the perilous close of the 1980s, when fashion's excesses had peaked - or, more accurately, piqued. A sweet and pretty book, with splendid Josef Astor photos and iconic fashion runway shots of the nascent John Galliano and resplendent Romeo Gigli and Karl Lagerfeld. A worthy and timeless text ...

Giorgio Armani (Guggenheim Museum Publications)

1 review
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 broad scope of his work. The detailed description accompanying the photographs of the actual museum exhibts are informative and ...