David Bailey: Eighties

In the 1980s, fashion wanted to make a statement and found the perfect chronicler in legendary British fashion photographer David Bailey. The coffee table book "Eighties" by iconic photographer David Bailey collects Bailey's fashion photography from the time when fashion consisted mainly of brighter colors, extreme makeup, spandex jumpsuits and jackets with padded shoulders over the shortest miniskirts and dangerously high-heeled shoes.

The fashion book from publisher Taschen features photography by David Bailey that he did for Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, Tatler and countless other magazines. Featuring couture, catwalk and ready-to-wear collections by the era's most important designers, including Azzedine Alaïa, Comme des Garçons, Guy Laroche, Missoni, Stephen Jones, Valentino and Yves Saint Laurent, the book is a testament to a decade in which hierarchies of taste were dismantled to reintroduce pleasure and sex into fashion and remind us that we don't have to think of both as dirty words. Bailey got the most beautiful people in front of his lens. Captured at their most playful, invincible and defiantly sexy. We see legendary icons and beauties of the 80s: Catherine Bailey, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Catherine Deneuve, Princess Diana, Jerry Hall, Marie Helvin, Grace Jones, Kelly LeBrock, Christy Turlington, Tina Turner and many more.

The cultural resonance of the 1980s on our screens, catwalks and concert stages makes this time ideal for recontextualizing the enduring legacy of maximalism and excess. The coffee table book "Eighties" offers a unique opportunity to do just that with David Bailey as guide and interpreter, who is never afraid to wink at his audience. As Bailey says in his preface, "The eighties proved to be magical." Here, that magic comes alive.

Specifications
Title: David Bailey: Eighties
Publisher: TASCHEN
Size: 360 x 284 x 38 mm
Size: 296 pages
Weight: 3580 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783754400111
Appearance: December 27, 2024

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