‘Peter Jensen & Mary Miles Minter & Mildred & Emma & Olga & Nancy & Gertrude & Cindy & Tonya & Fanny & Sissy & Helena & Tina & Christina & Mink & Candice-Marie & Jodie & Jytte & Laurie & Muriel & Shelley & Anna Karina’. Now in Store. £25.00
From the man who brought us bunny ears, Peter Jernsen’s clothes have been loved for the last 10 years. Ths hard back photography book charts just that. Expect a look back at ten years of fashion design with a splash of wit from this charming Dane.
Publishing Dent-de-Leone describe it thus…
“Peter and Garard have been making make clothes for ten years. Each season’s outfits are inspired by the fantastic excesses of their muses: Artist Gertrude Stein’s dinners, Tonya Harding’s attack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan, the request of Christina of Denmark to marry Henry VIII only when she’ll have a head to spare, the freckled eternal teen face of Sissy Spacek (covered in pig blood in De Palma’s Carrie or murderously innocent in Malick’s Badlands), the delusional Shelley Duval, the Guardian-reader-type righteous Candice-Marie from Mike Leigh’s Nuts in May etc.
Also contains essays by Emily King and Susannah Frankel. Available NOW IN STORE.
In the first of a series of iconic fashion books coming to The Shop At Bluebird we welcome Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture.
Let’s face it we’ve all spent time hankering after a bit of Vuitton and here he is in book form. An exploration of that design, with fashionistas of a bygone era sporting bags of cool. This book revisits some of Louis Vuitton’s most memorable shops and never before seen sketches, blueprints, and mock-ups.
The book is an exploration of the dynamic and innovative architecture and interiors commissioned by Louis Vuitton. A prescient advocate of contemporary interiors and architecture, Louis Vuitton continues to encourage innovation and playfulness in the designs of their retail spaces without losing sight of the essence of luxury central to its identity.
This process of designing places to display high-style objects has created a new venue for cutting-edge architecture and transformed city streetscapes. This exploration of Louis Vuitton’s international stores, as well as industrial sites and unrealized projects, includes interviews with some of today’s most talented architects and designers who discuss the beautiful and complex structures they have produced in collaboration with Louis Vuitton.
This book examines the physical aspects of these buildings as well as the ideas that went into their composition.
Acting as both a backdrop for luxurious retail goods and the physical manifestation of the brand, these spaces are a genre unto themselves that invite exploration.
With luxurious finishes and unexpected textures, these fantastic buildings represent the intersection of fashion and interior design. The book includes interviews with Jun Aoki, Peter Marino, Christian de Portzamparc, David McNulty, and Christian Reyne.
Now in store and weaving its way to your coffee table, £50.00.
MARIPOL: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD Conversation with Marc Jacobs. Text by Maripol Damiani Books £40.00
Maripol’s work as an art director, designer, and film producer has influenced popular movements in music, fashion and art since the early 1980s. For the first time, she is opening her scrapbooks of drawings, design, photography and writing to create a book that captures her personality as an artist.
Fresh out of Les Beaux Arts, she landed in New York and a job with Fiorucci based on her designs of wearable sculpture and jewelry made from industrial objects. Textures, fabrics, and scents were no stranger to a girl who grew up in Africa… From that auspicious beginning, her designs permeated the art, music and fashion of the following three decades. Madonna, Keith Haring and Basquiat are a few of the significant people of our times that she has influenced, filmed, and photographed.
Currently, she is collaborating with Marc Jacobs for accessories. The material presented in this book exposes the genius of having kept these journals intact and the fragility of an innocent little girl growing fast in the world of the big bad wolves…
The accessories that gave Madonna her stylistic edge and sparked millions of prepubescent copycats across the globe were the brainchild of Maripol, a designer and stylist who was working at the time as the art director of the Fiorucci store. “I was attracted by objects and I liked to use them by taking away their original meaning,” Maripol has said. “I would see something I liked and I’d say, ‘That would be great as an earring.’”
An habitué of the same New York dance clubs as the singer, Maripol styled Madonna at the outset of the Material Girl’s career, both casually and also officially, on the Like a Virgin album cover, ensuring the singer an eternal spot in the pantheon of pop style icons. “I was already making the rubber jewelry and I was already making the crosses because of my love for the punks,” she said. “So it was perfect for her.”
Now Maripol, who has just launched a new line of colorful, affordable accessories for Marc Jacobs, opens up her scrapbooks of drawings, designs, photography and writing to create a book that captures her personality as an artist, beginning with her childhood and her arrival in New York as a 19-year-old art school student.
Maripol moved to New York from France in 1976, where she became a part of the New York clubbing and music scene, styling Madonna and working on films such as Downtown 81 (starring Jean-Michel Basquiat and Deborah Harry). In the mid-1980s, she opened her own boutique, Maripolitan, in the NoHo area of New York. Maripol has also been art director on music videos for Cher, D’Angelo and Elton John, among others.
Maripol, the French-born New York art-director and stylist behind Madonna’s iconic “Like a Virgin” tour who never left home without her 70′s Polaroid camera, presents a series of limited edition prints — photographs from New York’s underground scene with legends including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Deborah Harry and Madonna.
Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her. I would bring her stuff back from my travels and dress her up like a Christmas tree! When we did the cover of “Like A Virgin” [with Steven Meisel] it was the idea really of having her in a wedding dress. The art director at first wanted her to be the Black Sabbath kind of virgin I was like please play the game! Because I had worked with Jean-Paul Goude, I understood what it took to make a good picture.
A hefty hard back disguising itself as a magazine, Fashion For Men is a new biannual publication set up by photographer and former Editor-in-Chief of L’Officiel Hommes, Milan Vukmirovic.
“I wanted something really simple and international, it’s about real clothes and real product, it’s time to come back to that.”
Vukmirovic’s signature stories are all here as are features on Max Irons, Jenny Saviile and Remo Ruffini and who better to feature on its cover than Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci’s rottweiler acting fierce in cross stitch? In store now at £22.
Tribe’s ‘Baby’, out on the 16th January 2012, Island Records. Gotta be said, we rather like these guys…
Tribes are a British four-piece rock band from Camden, London. Formed in 2010, the band consists of Johnny Lloyd (formerly of Operahouse), Dan White, Miguel Demelo and Jim Cratchley.
Think Razorlight, the Pixies and throw in a bit of Libertines and you’ve got a rather cool Camden band heading for great heights with their debut album, and they’re pretty good live too!
TRACK LISTING:
* 1. Whenever
* 2. We Were Children
* 3. Corner Of An English Field
* 4. Halfway Home
* 5. Sappho
* 6. Himalaya
* 7. Nightdriving
* 8. When My Day Comes
* 9. Walking In The Street
* 10. Alone Or With Friends
* 11. Bad Apple
Our favourite track released last year is Sappho watch it HERE.
