{"product_id":"rare-bird-of-fashion-by-eric-boman-9780500513446","title":"Rare Bird of Fashion","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis beautifully photographed book celebrates the style of fashion maverick Iris Apfel, who, over the past fifty years, has cultivated a personal chic that is exuberantly idiosyncratic. Combining genres, colours, textures, and patterns without regard to period, provenance, or aesthetic convention, she is one of the few style icons of our time. As the art critic Roberta Smith commented in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Before multiculturalism was a word, Mrs Apfel was wearing it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore than ninety sumptuous colour plates, photographed by Eric Boman, show off a selection of extraordinary outfits on wittily posed mannequins, styled by Iris Apfel as she would wear them. Detailed captions describe all elements of the ensembles, including their designers, fabrics, and accessories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether the pieces come from Parisian \u003ci\u003emaisons de couture\u003c\/i\u003e, American antique fairs, North African souks, Middle Eastern bazaars, or tiny ateliers where they have been made to Apfel's own design, her highly original strategy of dressing constitutes a remarkable artistic exercise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComplete with a perceptive preface by Eric Boman, an introduction deconstructing the Apfel allure by celebrated fashion authority Harold Koda, an autobiographical text by Iris Apfel herself, and more than sixty vintage photographs from her personal collection, \u003ci\u003eRare Bird of Fashion\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of a way of dressing-up that is nothing less than inspiring, life-enhancing, theatrical spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597588185324,"sku":"9780500513446","price":85.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780500513446-rare-bird-of-fashion.jpg?v=1777957982","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/rare-bird-of-fashion-by-eric-boman-9780500513446","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}