Christian Lacroix on Fashion author-gilles-de-chabaneix presents the work of over

presents the work of over one hundred artists from around the world

and how best to assess it from an aesthetic one

Also included are special pages showing infants’ frocks

Over 200 photographs provide a visual reference of objects both useful and decorative

For this book - the first to include the artist's rare work in colour - Desmazieres has delved deep into the arcane theme of cabinets of curiosities

Christian Lacroix on Fashion author-gilles-de-chabaneix presents the work of overThis is not a retrospective, but my own look at the costume collections of the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, from which I chose pieces from all eras, some never before exhibited. I chose those that were most inspiring, those that best told the story of fashion that I would have wanted to tell if I were the museum curator that I intended to be when I was a student My twenty years in the fashion business are another way of telling this story, and I selected