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New York: Pelligrini & Cudahy, 1952. First edition. Blue cloth boards with navy lettering. Dust jacket with pattern illustrations in grey, blue and black shows foxing at edges, shading and a few very small tears to edge. Near fine book in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. 31 x 23 cm. 63 pages.Mariska Karasz was a fashion designer and an expressionist needlework artist who was born in Hungary and emigrated to New York in 1912. Examples of her fashions are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In mid-life Karasz turned to designing children's clothes and writing and designing sewing books. How To Make Growing Clothes focuses on distinctive patterns for baby and toddler items. Karasz is undoubtedly one of those overlooked modern designers, she emigrated to the United States at the age of 14, taught herself requisite skills, and moved into the world of fashion design. Known and credited at the time for her bold and skillful use of colour, and her inclusion of Hungarian folk elements into her clothing… Read More

London: Gaberbocchus Press [Printed by Moll-Winter in Lubeck], 1949. First Edition. 8vo. 112pp. Publisher's grey cloth titled in dark red to the spine. Slight soiling and discolouration of the cloth, otherwise a very clean, sharp copy. Internally clean, although the poor paper stock has resulted in some uniform toning. One of the scarcest Gaberbocchus publications, and a fine collaboration from the wildly creative Kavan, one of the few authors to have constructed a nom-de-plume, and then adopted that pseudonym as their real name, amongst numerous other achievements, of course.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. This set of Guide and Album were published for the 2017 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition of Rei Kawakubo, the Japanese avant-garde fashion designer who founded Comme des Garçons in 1973 and Dover Street Market in 2004. The 2017 Met Gala was devoted to the Japanese label Comme des Garçons and designer Rei Kawakubo. Visitors to the exhibition were provided with a print Guide as the space was designed without detailed labels, only themes e.g. "Fashion/Antifashion", "Beautiful/Grotesque", "Self/Other". The Guide's layout uses folding to present each theme in greater detail if the reader wishes. The Album, also of unusual construction, contains an essay "What do Clothes Wear" by Mark Wigley and 21 images of the gallery space designed by exhibition curator Andrew Bolton and Kawakubo. Guide: Staple bound pamphlet made of 10 sheets printed on both sides. As presented folded, 28 x 11 cm. Album: printed on heavy card, concertina folded. 28 x 21.5 cm. The set… Read More

Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968. In Full Bloom: Yayoi Kusama, Years in Japan.
Yayoi Kusama, Lynn Zelevansky, Laura Hoptman, Akira Tatehata, Alexandra Munroe. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), 1998. Two-volume set in slipcase. Text in Japanese. Profusely illustrated. 29.5 x 21.5 x 3 in slipcase. Each volume 28.5 x 21 x 1. 168, 193 pages.