By Rashmi
Hemrajani
Honesty,
information and fashion, fused profoundly, can only create book covers that
ooze creativity and grab the attention of literature aficionados. We pick 3
interesting fashion book covers and why we like them…
Year
2012 has added to Indian fashion history: from designers celebrating 25 years, a fashion
journalist recording the history of Indian fashion and a designer writing his
fashion memoir. Apart from India, too, many books released across the globe
have recorded the style story impeccably this year.
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Powder
Room by Shefalee Vasudev
Having
interviewed over 300 people for this book, including people in small towns and
big cities, well-established designers, shop assistants, struggling and
successful models and tailors, Shefalee reveals statistics in the book that explain
the dynamics propelling the fashion market in India to the levels where it is
today and beyond.
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Thus
the cover depicting a lady with black powder smudged all over her forehead and
eyes, signifies the illusions created by the paparazzi about the fashion
fraternity.
The
Green Room by Wendell Rodricks
‘The Green Room’ has a gorgeous cover page – a
black and white picture of Malaika Arora Khan in Wendell Rodricks’ famous
mussel top, flattered by the stark yellow spine of the book, as if capturing
candour through coded colour.
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Photograph: Courtesy Wendell Rodricks |
A
memoir by the designer about his life, his many passions and of course, the
industry, as he completes 25 years of being in the business, the book cover is
significant metaphorically as it now depicts to the world a very candid shot of
the lady taken way back in 1997!
The photograph was taken from his first solo show, informs Wendell; further stating how it has obviously been the best; and is ecstatic that it made a perfect fit with the title of his memoir.
Tim
Gunn’s Fashion Bible
An
American fashion consultant and television personality, Tim is well known as
on-air mentor to designers on the reality television program Project Runway;
and this book is a must-read for all fashion aspirants.
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The
book is a good resource on the basics of fashion history, classic style,
current do’s and don’ts, and how to assess your closet in order to put yourself
in good fashion order. It is filled with illustrations, pictures, interesting
history and trivia, as well as details that represent many an era, a designer,
a trend, and how, as in life, what goes around comes around.
The
cover screams authority!
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From
a peep into a mindset to not really telling anything at all, the 3 book covers
are starkly compelling, through simple straightforward imagery and text,
allowing the viewer’s mind to weave its own web of intrigue as it mulls over
each of them – the title and the author.
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Photographs: Courtesy World Wide Web
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