{"product_id":"versace-signatures","title":"Versace: Signatures","description":"\u003cp\u003eGianni Versace is Italys leading couturier and made headlines when he opened his sumptuous store in Bond Street in London which caters for the rich and famous  both male and female  from all over the world. \"Versace: Signatures\" presents a range of his outstanding designs both eyecatching and idiosyncratic. Over 200 full colour photographs document the designers best work from recent years - the brightly printed silks and painted tights  the bodices festooned with beads  the playful reappropriation of leather straps and chains with an occasional backward glance to the pieces that first made Versace famous: the wide shoulders  supple leather jackets and metal mesh of the early 1980s. The book closes with a survey of his theatrical costumes and a chronology of his career to date. Versaces sources are wide-ranging  from ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs to Russian Folk costumes. He draws on Art Deco  Pop Art and Op Art as springboards for his imagination  together with the traditions of Baroque and Rococco. As Omar Calabrese says in his essay  this mix of inspiration fosters \"a spirit of risk and adventure  a certain complicity between the creator of adventure  the creator of the clothes and their potential user\". There are comments on Versaces work by experts as diverse as art critic Ingrid Sischy  choreographer Maurice Bejart  director Robert Wilson  and fashion editors Anna Wintour  Polly Mellen and Liz Tilberis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949418606645,"sku":"ByrdShop_1558595961","price":315.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781558595965.jpg?v=1770075363","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/versace-signatures","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}