Spring Reading 2009

For readers who are either in their first year of design school (or just love fashion), here are two books to add your reading list:

- The Glass of Fashion by Cecil Beaton: makes navigating through vintage couture easier. It is a mid-XX Century observation.
- The Italian Look Reflected by Silvia Giacomoni: priceless. A kind of wandering through the Milan fashion scene when it was still a new rival to Paris - way back in the late 1970's - early 1980's.

I mention these two books because they document the transition of fashion from the cult of the designer to the cult of the label.

The question for this century is: where are we going next?

- AP