“You neediness to be creative and courageous in your frock and the Saame is alignment of your place . . .
When you’re design clothing, you genuinely only have unity point of focus and that’s the body. But
home is fabrics and furniture and floors and success light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a
world.”—Betsey Johnson

NEW YORK – After everlasting going and the crush of Fashion Week, decorator, too, demand a disengagement
from dressmaking’s glittering civilisation. And what do the home of way arbiter stare like? American
Fashion Designers at Home offers a cozy stare into the individual quartern of more than
100 member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America—including Diane von Furstenburg,
Johnson Hartig, Derek Lam, Bob Mackie, Cynthia Rowley, and Kate Spade—offer a stunning
photographic circuit of the ayah bedside of mode.

Through vivid shoot, explore eclecticist domiciles from the minimum chic to the bold and exotic,
from compact unity-bedrooms to sprawl estate, and discover how designer’ habitation

]]> often become extensions of their métier: Find Carolina Herrera’s classic elegance also woven
into her Louis XV–influenced New York apartment and Betsey Johnson’s trademark pink and girly
glamour mirrored in her sumptuous, flower-filled flat. Comfort and relaxation are a focus for some
designers: Be a guest in the home of Tommy Hilfiger, whose preppy aesthetic softens in his cozey
“Adirondack room,” featuring a fireplace and repurposed beams from a Vermont barn, or take
off to Donna Karan’s tranquil, zen-inspired villa in the Turks and Caicos Islands, complete with ecofriendly
edifice and yoga pavilion. This collectible book—an one-of-a-form sneak peek into the
life of CFDA stars—reveals that fashion’s most creative mind also proceeds their work place them.
Hardcover/Jacket • • 55€ • 45£ • 300 page • 9 x 12″ • 23 x 30 cm • 300 illustration.

ISBN – 9782759404711
available at Assouline Boutiques and online at Assouline

ASSOULINE/FALL 2010
American Fashion Designers at Home By Rima Suqi

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