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Happy Fashion Week New York! Internationally-acclaimed fashion photographer Kirstin Sinclair, the author, and Peachy Deegan have an amazing work for you to start it right. Right when you open up the inside cover of A Front Row Seat, you know it’s going to be an incredible read because of all of the fantastic shows the author has been to as shown by the invitations and passes. Don’t start with envy, however, because Kirstin is going to let you into her world and you will LOVE IT.
Looking at the shows through Kirstin’s eyes gives you insight to just how sharp a photographer she is (obviously! …how do you think those invitations appeared…!) The brilliant color, the eye for detail, the angles captured all culminate into an artistic tribute to the world of fashion. Peachy herself has been studying photography for decades, so we think we get a vote as to who would qualify to be among the best fashion photographers. One of our favorites is shot at an angle on pages 120-121. Check it out!
We commend Sinclair on her huge variety of people featured which is incredibly thoughtful and diverse. There’s not too much repetition of one person, model or otherwise, and she captures quite a lot in this work.
Erin O’Connor, who must be Irish and happens to be a model, pens a foreword with laudable accolades, and she must know having been in front of a camera! Published in England in 2011 by Antique Collectors’ Club, Front Row is to be enjoyed at the commencement of each and every fashion week from now on.
You’ll see who else is sitting in the Front Row with you: Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Susan Sarandon, Demi Moore, Brooke Shields, and of course Anna, previously featured on Whom You Know:
This book captures these worldwide celebs that frequent such shows in the first 50 pages, and follows that with Peachy’s Personal Favorite category: The Editors, starting with our aforementioned favorite. Thumbs up to Kirstin for putting this category up there at the front.
The catwalk, the designers, the buyers, backstage, street style and model style are the remaining parts that compose the star-studded affair that has come together inbetween two covers. So how did all of this fashion show business come about? Of course, Coco Chanel in the 1920’s. But how did it start in America? We learned that during the occupation of France by German troops in World War Two in the 1940’s, it became practically impossible for editors, buyers and designers to travel to Paris, so they came to America! And the catwalk debuted in New York….We love how Kirstin goes beyond the surface to find out the real story.
Getting down to what’s really important which are the clothes, if Peachy Deegan could have one outfit only from this book she’s pick Aline Weber in the autumn/winter 2010 Yves Saint Laurent womenswear show in Paris March 2010: The model here is wearing a short LBD (little black dress) with hot pink accents and a hot pink cape with amazing black pumps that have feathers in the back that match the collar of the cape and hem of the dress.
Your bucket list will be added to in bold red with stars with “Chanel Show in the Grand Palais, Paris” that you can see on pages 184-185. How could anyone miss that, especially if you were born too late to meet the real Coco.
Fashion over the last century is covered and Kirstin proves she is talented not only behind the camera but also with English verbiage as she spins a tale of what has been going on at Fashion shows for the last century. A sneak preview of what is to come later on this week-Rodney Cutler, Official Stylist of Whom You Know, will weigh in on how the week is evolving and we wonder how many shows in this book had hair done by Cutler.
Reading page 268 echoed what we’ve learned in Michael Gross’s book Models:
And HBO’s documentary About Face:
Whom You Know Highly Recommends A Front Row Seat! Take yours now, and read it before the lights dim, the music blasts, and the models strut this Fashion Week.
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A Front Row Seat
Kirstin Sinclair Foreword by Erin O'Connor
ISBN: 9781851496617
Publisher: ACC Editions
Territory: USA & Canada
Size: 8.25 in x 10.75 in
Pages: 304
Illustrations: 400 color
Laminated paperboard
A rare glimpse into the life of the people setting the trends and making the fashions
Presents seven years of documentary catwalk shots from New York, London, Milan and Paris
Key icons from the fashion industry; Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld, Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer but also the newcomers such as Agyness Deyn, Lily Cole, Gareth Pugh, Scarlett Johanssen
Reviews
The book would bring a touch of sophistication to anyone s coffee table and makes the perfect gift for fashionistas. If you can't get a ticket to any of the forthcoming shows, this book might just console you!
- Fashion Angel
What owning this book says about you: You re a fashion show insider. You are a style maven and know much more than just clothes on a runway. You re schooled in who s who, what s what, and what people should be wearing in the runway hierarchy. If you re not any of those things, you will be after reading this book.
What will people say?: That beautiful book looks so chic! You must know so much about fashion shows.
How this book will make your fashion brain grow: A fashion show year book of sorts, the book has the who s who at many a show, expanding your fashionista rolodex by hundreds. There are also great street style shots that will get you out of any fashion version of writer s block.
- Zimbio.com
"A Front Row Seat gathers the best of her work into one glorious compendium that brings readers into the heart of the action. Featuring hundreds of lush color photos, the book opens with a chapter devoted to front row celebrities...Kirstin's catwalk images are particularly striking"
- The Fashion Informer
"I am rarely front of house, I am always backstage. The adrenaline is amazing; placing the hats just-so, tweaking a veil, shoving in another flower, crossing my fingers and praying that my confections don't fall off! Those last moments as the girls line up backstage is the most exciting time of the entire creative process; six months condensed into a few seconds; like bolts of lightning speeding onto the runway. This book captures that moment." Stephen Jones OBE
Through a series of candid photographs taken over the last 7 years covering all the different elements that make up the catwalk shows - Backstage, Front Row, Catwalk and Street Style - the uninitiated viewer will get an insight into the chaos that makes up the apparently glamorous world of fashion shows!
Unlike many shots from the shows published in women's fashion magazines, this book allows the reader to be a fly on the wall, portraying the reality of the fashion world in a documentary style.
Featuring quotes from several industry professionals and reporters- make up artists, hair stylists, models, editors, designers and bloggers- this title communicates in a contemporary vernacular to capture the way that fashion is expressed and recorded in today's world of social networking and blogging, the popularity of which has instigated a huge change in the layman's ability to break into the fashion world.
Firmly in tune with the current vibe and with a definite London edginess, A Front Row Seat is a sensational design statement in itself.
Published to accompany an exhibition at The Fashion and Textile Museum.
Contents:
Backstage; The Front Row; The Catwalk; Street Style; The Models off Duty.
Kirstin Sinclair is a well-known photographer on the catwalk circuit and street style scene and between fashion seasons shoots fashion in the Studio and on location. Her work has appeared in British Vogue, British Elle, Elle Collections and Bristish GraziaMagazines, as well as on www.elleuk.com, www.vogue.co.uk, www.graziadaily.co.uk, www.netaporter.com and www.asos.com. She has also worked with clients such as Louis Vuitton, Topshop, Miss Selfridge and The Fashion and Textile Museum.
