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Book SynopsisA survey of 100 of the most exciting contemporary fashion designers.
Trade Review"I love this book. Pattern saves me from having to search a ton of uber-cool websites and blogs to find all the new, cool, edgy and emerging designers around the world. It's a great resource, and edited by credible, interesting curators."—Fern Mallis, former Executive Director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America
"Which young designers will be the next global tastemakers? New tome Pattern highlights 100 names currently shaping fashion."—Harper's Bazaar
"Pattern features established designers, well-known emerging labels, and proper newbies. The designers’ diverse aesthetics, techniques and outlooks are presented via detailed introductions, backstage, campaign and editorial photographs, and never-before-seen sketches, all of which serve to give readers an in-depth understanding of their work."—Style.com
"Phaidon has done it again... Fashion lovers will devour this hefty four-hundred page book. This is a gorgeous book... Exactly what you need on your coffee table."—Beso.com
"This hefty volume, a follow-up to Phaidon's Sample (2005) takes on an almost impossible task: identifying the 100 most influential new designers of the moment... The book, presented in a printed Tyvek shoulder bag, offers something for everyone."—Publishers Weekly
"Kudos for Phaidon’s newest book Pattern - 10 curators from around the world describe a groundbreaking generation of the most courageous fashion designers. I especially admire those designers whose creativity is combined with sound business acumen."—Adrienne Vittadini, fashion designer
"A comprehensive labor of fashion love."—Net a Porter.com
"10 leading taste makers have picked the designers [...] defining the decade with innovative techniques and processes."—Daily Telegraph magazine
"We'll be spending the next few months swooning over the pages of Pattern, the most current, comprehensive and, well, beautiful collections of fashion designers and their work we've seen for a long time... No humble fashion list, Pattern is an opus giving four pages each to the designers and cover never before seen photographs, drawings, sketchings and computer renderings If there's one thing on our must-have list this season this might just be it."—Top Shop blog, Inside Out
