{"product_id":"fashion-lives-fashion-icons-with-fern-mallis-9780847844807","title":"Fashion Lives Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis revealing volume provides unprecedented access to master designers and industry leaders. No topic is off-limits to Fern Mallis, award-winning creator of Fashion Week in New York, when she hosts Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis at New York’s prestigious 92nd Street Y, a series of in-depth interviews with the fashion industry’s most talented, successful, and legendary personalities. Featuring nineteen inspiring interviews with American fashion luminaries, this engaging book introduces readers to the real artists behind these very public figures. These no-holds-barred interviews, combined with never-before-seen personal photographs from interviewees such as Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Michael Kors, Tommy Hilfiger, Betsey Johnson, Polly Mellen, Bruce Weber, and more bring a fascinating, compelling perspective to their work. Profound, funny, and provocative, the discussions range from childhood inspirations to nitty-gritty industry details to advice on h\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Every so often, the glamorous veil that conceals the vulnerable and human aspects of the most famous fashion influencers is lifted. Fern Mallis’s enlightening 92nd Street Y interviews were \u003cb\u003eall about those moments\u003c\/b\u003e. . . . Luckily for those not in the audience to witness these conversations firsthand, the doyenne has compiled transcriptions from 19 of the most intriguing sit-downs in a new book, \u003ci\u003eFashion Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis\u003c\/i\u003e (Rizzoli). With a \u003cb\u003eforeword by Ralph Lauren\u003c\/b\u003e, the tome features full recaps as well as photos from the interviewee’s childhoods, career milestones, and editorial achievements. Leaving no stone unturned, Mallis’ questions cover drug and alcohol abuse, personal relationships, and, of course, work, drilling her colleagues with everything from 'Do you believe in astrology?' to 'Do you care about the critics?' In other words,\u003cb\u003e everything you wanted to know about fashion, but were afraid to ask\u003c\/b\u003e.\" -\u003ci\u003eW Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Fern Mallis has] talked to (almost) \u003cb\u003eeverybody who is anybody\u003c\/b\u003e in American fashion.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Front Row\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Since 2011, \u003cb\u003ethe award-winning curator of New York Fashion Week\u003c\/b\u003e has conducted in-depth and entertaining interviews with some of the most prestigious talents in the fashion industry, including \u003cb\u003eOscar de la Renta, Donna Karan, Michael Kors, Tom Ford\u003c\/b\u003e and more. Nineteen of those \u003cb\u003eno-holds-barred interviews\u003c\/b\u003e have been gathered into a new, 448-page coffee table book called\u003ci\u003e Fashion Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Fashion Spot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It hasn’t always been pulsing catwalks, Champagne-fueled parties and celebrity hobnobbing for \u003cb\u003efashion’s superstar designers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e. . . . \u003c\/i\u003e[using] Mallis’ “Inside the Actors Studio”-style lectures at the 92nd Street Y, \u003ci\u003e[Fashion Lives\u003c\/i\u003e] offers \u003cb\u003ecandid personal accounts\u003c\/b\u003e from style-world luminaries, many of whom got their start in and around NYC.\" -\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"...a juicy exploration of the lives of the people who set the trends and dress the stars.\" -\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFashion Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is big as a MacBook and heavy as a small barbell, but if you like to read about fashion, you’ll find it as light as an airport page-turner. Dish? Honey, the dish does not quit. Emotion? Hey, this is fashion, not physics. \u003cb\u003eIntelligence, compassion, ideas\u003c\/b\u003e? Yes, in quantity, and not so much because the 19 designers, photographers and editors interviewed here are so verbal but because the interviewer is so hamish and well prepared that her guests nearly forget they’re onstage at the 92nd   Street Y.\" -\u003ci\u003eHeadButler.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...the material inside is as \u003cb\u003ein-depth, personal, and must-read\u003c\/b\u003e as they come.\" -\u003ci\u003eStylish.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This revealing volume features intimate interviews with the fashion industry's most talented luminaries, adding a fascinating personal perspective to their work.\u003cb\u003e Profound, funny, and provocative\u003c\/b\u003e.\" -\u003ci\u003eSocietyDiaries.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mallis paints a vivid picture of the inner workings of the fashion industry and offers \u003cb\u003eunprecedented entrée \u003c\/b\u003einto the minds of the people who make it great.\" -\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Many a fashion tome claims to bring readers inside the world of fashion, but trust us; there is arguably no better guide than Fern Mallis to take you there.\" -\u003ci\u003eAM New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFashion Lives\u003c\/i\u003e should become a textbook or at least \u003cb\u003emandatory reading\u003c\/b\u003e for all budding designers, future fashionphiles, and anyone who inhabits the fashion business or considers themselves an aficionado of the 'art form.'\" -\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fashion has its fair share of influencers, but it is difficult to find one who has profoundly impacted and help mold the industry as much as Fern Mallis has.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Imprint|The Impression\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Rizzoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038830166359,"sku":"9780847844807","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780847844807.jpg?v=1750941594","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fashion-lives-fashion-icons-with-fern-mallis-9780847844807","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}