books

Paris drawing room by Renzo Mongiardino: Watercolor by Mark Hampton

Wolfgang Tilman's first book is being reissued. The cover is a great idea fora men's fashion story.

"I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation or estrangement."

Wolfgang Tilmans

Legendary Parties is an iconic book

I just could not improve on the Publisher's Weekly write up :

Fearless Chloe Sevigny can be found in Purple Anthropology

Ann Douglas' "A Terrible Honesty" is like an opera

L"ESPIRIT D'ESCALIER:THOMAS DEMAND: D.A. P

Party hearty for Rock Diary

Expect all the kids to be out in full force.

Letter by Letter: An Alphabetical Miscellany

TI is a font fiend, having great love for both the classics from Arial to Zapf Dingbats, to those insane new forms the likes of M &M/Paris keep coining. If you are passionate too about the shape, size and scale of the lettering you encounter in your everyday life then you must read Letter By Letter. Designer/calligrapher/artist Laurent Pflughaupt painstakingly traces the history and structure of each and every letter of the "Roman" alphabet. It may sound boring on the surface but visually the book is inspiring and invigorating and telegraphs the idea that evolution is implicit (and inevitable) in all creative human endeavor.

Vive Revolutionaries with good handbags!

2008! Its the 40th anniversary of the May 68 uprising in France, an event forever romanticized and fetished in fashion (Ms Prada), film (Bertolucci's "The Dreamers") and music (check Pet Shop Boys "I'm Not Scared"..the crowd noises at the end are a tribute to Mai 68). The Hayward Gallery is exhibiting a collection of posters curated by Johan Kugelberg and Jeff Boardman of original posters from the uprising.
40 of the stunning graphic works have been reproduced into a limited edition poster book and each page of the hand pulled screen-printed reproductions been perforated along the edge for easy removal and framing (only 68 books are being published).

Hedi Slimane: Rock Diary: JRP Ringier

Hedi Slimane books tend to escalate really fast in value (a " Berlin" currently starts at $2, 475.00 on Amazon ) which means TI will be standing on line for a first run copy of "Rock Diary"!