Archive for the 'Books' Category

26
Jan

Pierre Cardin: 60 Years Of Innovation Book

By Hawley Categories: Art, Books, Culture and Fashion

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Assouline’s lat­est release is an iconic ret­ro­spec­tive trib­ute to leg­endary fash­ion designer Pierre Cardin. With an intro­duc­tion by Jean-Pascal Hesse, the book cel­e­brates 60 years of Cardin’s pro­lific and vision­ary fashions.

A pio­neer from the very begin­ning, Cardin cre­ated … … the rest after the jump!

16
Jan

Olivier Theyskens: The Other Side of the Picture

By Hawley Categories: Art, Books and Fashion

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Check out the lat­est Asso­line book on Ex-Nina Ricci designer Oliver Theyskens’s career. With gor­geous pho­tog­ra­phy by Julien Claessens and text by Vogue’s Sally Singer, Olivier Theyskens: The Other Side of the Pic­ture takes a look behind the scenes … … the rest after the jump!

27
Jul

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

By Mr. Banning Categories: Books

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Fol­low­ing up on the instant suc­cess of the lit­er­ary clas­sic mash up of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prej­u­dice with Zom­bies comes Sense and Sen­si­bil­ity and Sea Mon­sters. Due out in Sep­tem­ber is the next Jane Austen clas­sic to

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08
Jun

What I Am Reading…

By Mr. Banning Categories: Books

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As is my cus­tom to do on a Sun­day after­noon, I was cruis­ing and perus­ing my local comic book stores look­ing for some­thing new to enthrall my imag­ine for another week. I couldn’t find any­thing I was looking

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14
Apr

Cool Shit!

By Mr. Banning Categories: Books and Music

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Accord­ing to the Bloc Party update email that I received bi-monthly lead singer Kele has writ­ten a short story for Punk Fic­tion. Punk Fic­tion is a book that fea­tures writ­ers and musi­cians whose sto­ries were inspired by a

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22
Feb

Books

By Mr. Banning Categories: Art, Books and Culture

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I recently read the Road, by Cor­mac McCarthy and it was fan­tas­tic. Seri­ously. You HAVE to read it.

It is a post-apocalyptic story about a father and son travel down a road over the course of a couple

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05
Feb

Designer Toys — continued

By Mr. Banning Categories: Books, Culture and Toys

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Well it seems that today is toy day. I only intended to write the one post to exalt my won­der­ful toys. How­ever, it seems that once I got started I can’t stop.

So speak­ing

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