Fashion Designers at the Opera

by Helena Matheopoulos

Extent: 192 pages

Publisher: Kapon Editions

Subjects: Clothing & Textiles

Language: Greek (Modern)

Hardback (Published)

(October 2015)

ISBN: 9789606878589

Price: $49.50

In stock

Add to cart

Synopsis
Contributing Authors

Profiles leading figures in the world of fashion. Designers include Zandra Rhodes, Carl Lagerfeld, Armani, Versace and Lacroix. Includes designs for Don Giovanni, Carmen, Aida and many other operas staged at such opera houses as the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, La Scala, the Arenes de Nimes and more. 200 colour ill’ns. Greek language text

Fashion and opera are natural arenas for collaboration. The most theatrical of arts has inspired the most visionary fashion designers. Top designers such as Viktor & Rolf, Miuccia Prada, Emanuel Ungaro and Christian Lacroix have made, successful sorties as costumiers for operas all over the world. This sumptuous book profiles leading figures in the world of fashion, together with their dazzling costume designs. Interviews illuminate the journey that led each to the opera and the challenges of working in a new medium. The book includes designs for Don Giovanni, Carmen, Aida, Cosi fan tutte, The Magic Flute and many other operas staged at such opera houses as the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Arenes de Nimes and more. Includes over 200 illustrations, including designers’ sketches and photographs of the costumes on stage.

By (author) Helena Matheopoulos

Similar Books

The Vatican Cope

Art, Style and Design from Westminster to Rome

Meta/Metal

Open Questions in Metal Studies

Volume 1

Contributions by Camille Migeon-Lambert Contributions by Amory Abbott Contributions by Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi Contributions by Miroslav…

Outward Appearance versus Inward Significance

Addressing Identities through Attire in the Ancient World

Volume 15

edited by Aleksandra Hallmann

Textiles and War in Europe and the Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity

Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilisation in Bucharest, Romania, 17-19 May 2023

Edited by Liviu Mihail Iancu Edited by Francesco Meo

Common Thread

Collected Essays in Honour of Eva Andersson Strand

Volume 3

Edited by Ulla Mannering Edited by Marie-Louise Nosch Edited by Anne Drewsen

In My Fashion

A Memoir

By (author) Sol Kent

The Significance of Archaeological Textiles

Papers of the International Online Conference 24th–25th february 2021. THEFBO Volume II

Hg.: Banck-Burgess, Johanna; Marinova-Wolff, Elena; Mischka, Doris

Entanglements

Genderdiskurse textiler Handarbeiten, Bilder, Techniken

Volume 11

by Anne Rohl

La teinture et les matieres tinctoriales a la fin du Moyen Age

Florence, Toscane, Mediterranee

Volume 492

by Mathieu Harsch

Moritz aus Buxtehude

Der Kleidernachlass des Herzog Moritz von Sachsen-Lauenburg (1551-1612)

by Andreas Fahl, Fyona Fugensi, Christian Kammann and Jannik Prusser and edited by Jan Willem…

Panni tartarici

Seidengewebe aus Asien im spatmittelalterlichen Europa

by Juliane von Fircks

A Cultural History of School Uniform

By (author) Kate Stephenson

Archaeological Footwear

Development of shoe patterns and styles from Prehistory till the 1600's

By (author) Marquita Volken

Dyes in History and Archaeology 37/40

Edited by Jo Kirby

Tales of Tools

Untold Narrative of Wooden Handiwork Implements from Greece

By (author) Flavia Nessi-Yazitzoglou

The Bologna Cope

Patronage, Iconography, History, and Conservation

Volume 2

Edited by M. A. Michael

The Fabric of the City

A Social History of Cloth Manufacture in Medieval Ypres

Volume 59

By (author) Peter Stabel

Dem Buddha Geweiht

Neue Forschungen zu den Kaiserlichen Seiden der Tang-Zeit aus dem Tempel von Famen

Volume 133

edited by Susanne Greiff, Romina Schiavone, Shing Muller, Sun Zhouyong and Hou Gailing

Die Bamberger Kaisergewander im Wandel

Kunsttechnologische und materialwissenschaftliche Aspekte

by Sibylle Russ and Ursula Drewello

Light and Splendour

Edelmetall als Medium ritueller und sozialer Interaktion in der Spatantike

edited by Martin A. Guggisberg and Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann

Tiepolo und das Kostum

Konstruktion von Geschichte im Historienbild

by Torsten Korte

Weiße Umhüllungen – Weiße Verblendungen

Zur textilen Konstruktion von whiteness

By (author) Birgit Haehnel

Die Seel des Commercii der Fetzen Kramer Zellweger von Trogen

Textilfernhandel aus Appenzell Ausserrhoden nach Lyon und Genua, 1670 bis 1820

by Maya Zellweger

Modische Raubzuge

Von Luxus, Lust und Leid. 1800 bis heute

By (author) Aschendorff Verlag

Shaping Faith – Fashioning Splendour. Glauben formen – Pracht gestalten

Volume 11, 11

edited by Daniela Blum and Melanie Prange

Think Big!

Gail Rothschild portratiert spatantike Textilfunde aus Agypten

edited by Cacilia Fluck and Kathrin Malck

Textile Workers

Skills, Labour and Status of Textile Craftspeople Between the Prehistoric Aegean and the Ancient Near East

Volume 13

edited by Louise Quillien and Kalliope Sarri

The Hidden Life of Textiles in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean

Contexts and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Islamic, Latinate and Eastern Christian Worlds

Volume 3

Edited by Nikolaos Vryzidis

Book cover: The Textile Centre Akhmim-Panopolis (Egypt) in Late Antiquity. Material Evidence for Continuity and Change in Society, Religion, Industry and Trade

The Textile Centre Akhmim-Panopolis (Egypt) in Late Antiquity. Material Evidence for Continuity and Change in Society, Religion, Industry and Trade

Proceedings of the international conference organised by Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in cooperation with Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Göttingen, 28–30 September

Edited by Rafed El-Sayed Edited by Cäcilia Fluck