The love of fashion does not lie in whether it has caught up with the major fashion weeks all over the world, or whether it is to wear the latest styles of various big brands on the body. The aesthetics of different schools, fleeting inspirations and the history of fashion cultural inheritance and innovation contained behind them are endless treasures for every fashion addict. However, it would be too tiring to force everyone to be a “pedant”. A fashion list suitable for lazy people is the best. Just happened to step on the tail of a year, everyone was all kinds of year-end report chase beat, a war horse chaos is not as busy as stealing a leisure, make a cup of hot tea, turn over idle books, watch a movie, or with music gently shake the body, so orderly rhythm in everything will become more clear.

 Some books 

 

•                                   GRACE

                     Thirty Years Of Fashion at Vogue

   Fashion lovers can’t be ignorant of Vogue, while those who know Vogue are likely to know Grace Coddington. Even those unfamiliar with the name can’t ignore her fluffy red hair, as shown on the cover. The book is not only a preface by Anna Wintour and Karl Lagerfeld but also a collection of 30 years of Coddington’s work at Vogue. Including fashion blockbusters that are arranged in chronological order in cooperation with photographers Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel and Mario Testino, Coddington, with his advanced taste, makes fashion films 20 or 30 years ago still look very avant-garde, which is a “fashion blockbuster textbook” that cannot be ignored in modern fashion history. In addition, there are personal anecdotes and inside stories about working with people in the fashion industry such as Naomi Campbell, Jerry Hall, Linda Evangelista, and Manolo Blahnik. PS,405 pages weigh 4.5 kilograms so you can imagine the gold content.

•                IT

Alexa Chung is known for wearing them, but you may not know that she has also written columns for British women’s wear magazines Company and The Independent. She is also a contributing editor of fashion magazines.But don’t expect her to talk at length about the success of the IT Girl. Compared with the previous three books, this one can be said to be very, very easy. Most of the text is also in the form of an email she typed to the editor. But it wasn’t a lack of seriousness. Instead, it created an atmosphere of small talk with close friends, more like a fashion secret.

The first half of the book is mainly about Alexa’s fashion idols, Jane Birkin, Mick Jagger, and others, like a tribute and the pursuit of fashion inspiration. The second half becomes essays, fashion, music, film, even wrote about love, can be compared to a pot of stew, these seem to deviate from the fashion theme, but it is interesting that Alexa is too magnum, no taboo words and easy to draw illustrations, let a person read easy and comfortable.

 

Movies

 

•  DIAN AVREELAND

           THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL

       Diana Vreeland became Fashion editor for Harper’s Bazaar at age 33, editor-in-chief of Vogue 26 years later, started working for the Fashion Institute of the metropolitan museum of art in New York at age 70 and died on the upper east side of New York at age 86. This woman, known as the greatest fashion authority in the 20th century, was described as extremely ugly by her mother since she was a child, and she did not receive any professional education.

However, she was very familiar with history, culture, and art, and made fashion her lifelong career. It took her 23 years to establish Harper’s Bazaar’s style, from writing a lifestyle column to becoming the magazine’s sole fashion editor, to bring her unique aesthetic to Bazaar and create one classic fashion issue after another. Later, she entered Vogue, which was also the golden age of Vogue.

 

• THE DRESSMAKER

The Dressmaker is adapted from Rosalie Ham’s best-selling novel of The same name, which takes place in The 1850s and centers on The seamstress Myrtle Tilly Dunnage played by Kate Winslet. After studying fashion design and sewing in Europe, she returned to a small town on the outskirts of Australia years later to take sweet revenge on townspeople who called her a murderer and a cursed girl.

The 1950s were the golden age of European fashion houses, so Tilly’s custom-made houses in small Australian towns were full of classic designs of that era: Dior’s New Look, Jacques Fath-style chest line treatment, Elsa Schiaparelli’s most proud pleated lines, and silhouette design… Marion Boyce, the real star of Marion Boyce’s costumes, also said it was a homage to the fashion classics of the 1950s.

Tilly USES her beautiful and gorgeous coat to let women in the town to get rid of their bad looks and give them beauty and confidence. This is another meaning of fashion. As the prologue to the original novel puts it, proper dress brings peace of mind, even beyond the power of religion.

Fashion, as a kind of culture and art, can be connected with any other form of culture and art. At the same time, there are huge differences between them. However, it is precisely because of such differences that more diversified perspectives and forms are provided so that we can explore more fashion secrets.