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Height of Fashion Book

Remember the day you knew you looked your very best, and someone grabbed a camera to immortalize your wonderfulness? Height of Fashion is a beguiling, utterly original album of 231 enlarged snapshots of kids, teens, and adults showing off their Easter outfits, their party finery, their funky fashion and designer suits, their shags and Afros and punk dye jobs. Not to mention, when the occasion warrants, their birthday suits. Sometimes that "height of fashion" feeling derives from proximity to fame (posing with the Beatles, or Ronald Reagan, or Miss Wyoming), but more often it comes from the importance of a particular event--a bar mitzvah or a wedding or the day a beauty salon owner just felt like doing a handstand while roller-skating at the beach in a vintage dress. (Quotes from the subjects of some of the photos evoke snippets of memory--and offer some wry observations about style aspirations.) Who are all these people? Well, a few are celebrities, many occupy large and small positions in the worlds of fashion, design, and film, and some may be "just folks." But since everyone is identified by name only, fame takes a back seat to sheer nostalgia. Whether the subject is a windblown Faye Dunaway in a black dress and a convertible, on her way to meet Marcello Mastroianni, or a small, beaming woman posing on a Miami sidewalk in the Jackie Kennedy-style suit she made for her 1964 wedding, what matters is that somebody is having a moment of personal glory and that somebody else can't resist taking a picture. Fashion is fickle, but these snapshots evoke the enduring power of dreams and fantasies in our lives. --Cathy Curtis Read More

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    Everyone has one. Their height of fashion. A time in their lives when they felt like they could really knock your eyes out, they were so "on". Maybe it was the perfect accessory or right shade of blue or maybe it was the genius foresight to combine stripes with plaids. Their neck got longer, their back got straighter and their hair got better. They were "lookin' good and feelin' good" and nothing and no one could stand in their way because they looked so darned incredible. Editors Lisa Eisner and Roman Alonso invited a cross section of the famous, not-so-famous and not-famous-at-all to provide a photo that captured that moment of self-defined height of fashion. Results range from the hilarious to the sublime, from the ultra chic to the un-cool, but always intimate and original. This collection of photographs accompanied by anecdotes by New York Times Magazine Style Director Amy Spindler offers not only a look at some of the most incredible fashion moments of the last several decades, but also a peek into the psyche of those who were making fashion fabulous just by being themselves. With its focus on the charm and immediacy of snapshot, vernacular photography, Height of Fashion also includes contributions from well-known photographers sprinkled throughout, such as Dennis Hopper, Arthur Elgort, Bruce Weber, Helmut Newton, Jurgen Teller, and Torkil Gudnason.

  • 0967236614
  • 9780967236612
  • Roman Alonso, Lisa Eisner
  • 1 January 2000
  • Greybull Press, U.S.
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 232
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