Christian Lacroix on Fashion author-gilles-de-chabaneix Ben Schonzeit and Tjalf Sparnaay

Ben Schonzeit and Tjalf Sparnaay

For this book - the first to include the artist's rare work in colour - Desmazieres has delved deep into the arcane theme of cabinets of curiosities

Athens and Rome

from the cutting edge of modern style to classic techniques

presents the work of over one hundred artists from around the world

Christian Lacroix on Fashion author-gilles-de-chabaneix Ben Schonzeit and Tjalf SparnaayThis is not a retrospective, but my own look at the costume collections of the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, from which I chose pieces from all eras, some never before exhibited. I chose those that were most inspiring, those that best told the story of fashion that I would have wanted to tell if I were the museum curator that I intended to be when I was a student My twenty years in the fashion business are another way of telling this story, and I selected