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Willi Smith - by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron (Hardcover)

Name: Willi Smith - by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron (Hardcover)
Brand: Rizzoli Electa
SKU: 1004088764
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Highlights

African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work.
About the Author: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron is the curator of contemporary design and Hintz Secretarial Scholar at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York.
256 Pages
Art, Fashion & Accessories

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About the Book

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, March 13, 2020-October 25, 2020.

Book Synopsis

African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work.

Before Off-White, before Hood By Air, before Supreme, there was WilliWear. Willi Smith created inclusive and liberating fashion: "I don't design clothes for the queen, but the people who wave at her as she goes by," he said. A rising star from the time he left Parsons, Smith went on to found WilliWear with Laurie Mallet in 1976 and became one of the most successful designers of his era by his untimely death in 1987. Smith broke boundaries with his streetwear, or "street couture," and trailblazed the collaborations between artists, performers, and designers commonplace today in projects with SITE Architects, Nam June Paik, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Spike Lee, Dan Friedman, Bill T. Jones, and Arnie Zane. Essays by leading figures from the worlds of fashion, art, architecture, and cultural studies paired with never before-seen images and ephemera make Willi Smith essential reading for the history of streetwear culture and the evolution of fashion from the 1970s to today.

About the Author

Alexandra Cunningham Cameron is the curator of contemporary design and Hintz Secretarial Scholar at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York.

Dimensions (Overall): 11.7 Inches (H) x 7.7 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)

Weight: 2.95 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 256

Genre: Art

Sub-Genre: Fashion & Accessories

Publisher: Rizzoli Electa

Format: Hardcover

Author: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron

Language: English

Street Date: March 24, 2020

TCIN: 1004088764

UPC: 9780847868193

Item Number (DPCI): 247-14-8743

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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