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Style Sheets.(books about fashion and art)(Book review)
Byline: editor: Sally Singer JANE HERMAN text by Susan Yelavich
Though they won't hang in your closet, these four new books will fill a collector's quota.
How does one get fashion in decade-spanning volumes for less than $100? Either you pay a visit to the Met's Costume Institute or you invest in a book--which, if you're anything like me and find page turning and window-shopping similarly satisfying, is a smart alternative to the Post-September Impulse Buy.
Four beautiful new tomes can be had this month. Narciso Rodriguez (Rizzoli) celebrates the American designer's ten years in business with a scrapbook-style record of his work's purity, sensuousness, and scope. "It's a peek at the way the process unfolds for me," says Rodriguez. To complement last year's quintessential American Fashion, the Council of Fashion Designers of America introduces American Fashion Accessories (Assouline). Fans of Geoffrey Beene's forward-marching collections will ...
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