My Recent Books of Fashion, Photography and Typography

My Recent Books of Fashion, Photography and Typography

Talking about books, I have started a few a few months ago and they are still just staying at the first few pages...

Here are a few books that you don't really have to read, but can taste for a few months
Images say more than a million words

Fashion: The legendary Sartorialist Book (by Scott Schuman)

This is the paperback version.
Photo from Amazon


Photo from Sartorialist





There is a limited-edition hard cover version.
Photo from Barnes and Noble


PLUS Book Signing Tour!!!!!

Needless to say, get it on 12th August on Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble
Worldwide fashionistas, wait until early September.

AND I WANT IT REEEEALLYYYY BADLY.

PS I love this girl from Milano in Sartorialist


Photography with Music After taste

Jason Mraz, my recent favourite, has published a Polaroid Book called "A Thousand Things Book". I haven't read it and I didn't own it, but I do want it somehow. I hope he won't disappoint me.









"He lives happy and free and married to his cat..." His status is my dream... dreaming

Buy it here.

Including this pretending-to-be most annoying commercial for Jason Mraz from Real Magic TV
This video is really stupid but so funny. You can totally get it when you watch the commercial in the United States: "Please call 1-800 ..." or you watch the afternoon or midnight commercial program on TVB
I love his freestyle acoustic performance

Watch it here.

Jason is having a GRATITUDE CAFE TOUR in the United States and Canada. I missed his show in Hong Kong last time, sad... I really wanna go...


The Ultimate Typography Freak Book
I can't believe this blogger's professor is PAUL RAND, the IBM (eye bee m) logo designer! This book is designed by Jan Tschichold, God I love German Typography Design (well Architecture too).
The blogger said: "many pages had been torn out and many pages had letters cut from them. It was mr rand’s practice to cut letters and use them in his compositions. in a later post I will show you one such example.) he would also tear swatches from covers of art catalogs, books, whatever he fancied to use as a color reference for projects he was working on."

Dude, start a collection!!! Whatever it is, cut and paste, draw, sketch, be a collector/artist. I believe nothing comes from void, the more you see, the more you get. And destroy is the key to success? hahaha

Photo from Amass







Just amazingly lovely.



So, I swear that I won't go to Book Fair again since last year, and because of this post. Here I go now.


hLn

hMMM... hLn Maison Martin Margiela

hMMM... hLn Maison Martin Margiela

Just some really amazing photos that I've found recently about Maison Martin Margiela.

20 years of 4th June, 20 years of MMM
Margiela exhibition at the Mode Museum aka MoMu (Nationalestraat 28, Antwerp) on Feb
By the way, I have always wanted to go to Antwerp... they have nice design schools there, like the one MMM studied: Royal Academy of Fine Arts. View their recent fashion shows here.
Photos from Gail Sorronda
























i-D magazine pieces
Photo from Brooke Marks




I love this photo. I love the room. I love the decoration... and her hair... the photo composition blah blah blah








A really lovely MMM website, highly recommended.
Simple, Powerful and with his sense of humor.
He designed it to the very last detail. My favorite fashion website. (To be honest, the other brands are really boring on website design...)









Just a wee-bit more:
Pan's got a rumor for MMM, check it out.


WaLa
hLn

I heart Vintage Chanel

I heart Vintage Chanel

After Coco Avant Chanel has released, everyone is wearing horizontal stripes (I saw at least 3 people in my office today, including me of course) and Boy-Chapel-influenced-Coco style is on the way!



Now I introduce you 1stdibs, a website featuring many online vintage luxurious products, including CHANEL of course. I can't keep my eyes off them. Here are some beautiful pieces.

Chanel Poured Glass and Pearl Flower Necklace ($1,350)


Chanel Red 2.55 Bag ($2,500)


Chanel Camillia Flower Cluster Pin ($395)


Chanel Classic Quilted XL Jumbo ($2,500)


Chanel Couture Lace Bustier ($1,500)


Ornate Chanel Pendant Necklace. ($2,500)

I believe the price is in USD. The two bags and the necklace are from Resurrection. I remember once when I was still in New York, I passed by this store and I saw this beauuuutiful Chanel dress, I keep wandering outside the shop like a freak. I miss that dress and New York (for this reason). My dream number 2, opening a boutique.

A few more non-Chanel products that I found lovely:
OK.. They are selling Hermes Birkin too...
35cm Hermes Black Togo Leather Birkin. ($17,500). This is the cheapest one I found by all means. The others with Crocodile skin is like $40,000-$75,000


Yves Saint Laurent Blazer ($550)


Judith Leiber Mondrian inspired lizard clutch/shoulder bag (SOLD). I wrote a post with Mondrian inspired shoes!


Iconic Pierre Cardin Wool Dress w/Metal Detail ($4,500)


Late 1980s/Early 1990s Vivienne Westwood Rocking Horse Shoes ($850)


OMG this is so cute.. and expensive. Amusing French Straw Figural Bag 1950's. ($675)


Issey Miyake 2 piece dress (Price contact dealer).. We call the seller (dealer) coz they are antiques! I wonder if those brand like Neighborhood, A Bathing Ape, Limited edition blah blah blah have "dealers"?


I can't afford any of the above. If you would like to buy any of these items, just go to 1stdibs. Then search for the descriptions above each picture. Happy Shopping!


hLn