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BOOKS
Shine Between Being and Seeming

Costume Jewelry as Cultural Dynamism and a Coded Image of Modernity
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Cover of the TASCHEN book Costume Jewelry, featuring colorful vintage brooches including a jeweled octopus, a parrot with a green stone, cherries, a fish, and a hand-shaped pendant.

With remarkable visual force, “Costume Jewelry” stages the history of American costume jewelry. At the same time, ideas of freedom, style, and social ascent become visible. What is most compelling is...

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From Mannequins to Avatars

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How Algorithms Are Replacing Humans in the Fashion Industry
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Symbolic image for the change in the fashion industry: a server room as a metaphor for the replacement of real models by algorithms.

From the mannequins of the 1950s to the supermodels of the 1990s: fashion constantly reinvented its icons. Today their names are Shudu, Imma, and Lil Miquela – avatars instead of humans.

BOOKS
The Subtle Elegance of Aesthetics

An illustrated book about the work of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani
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Cover of the book Valentino. A Grand Italian Epic published by TASCHEN, showing stylized red arms and abstract pink flowers.

Valentino. A Grand Italian Epic is more than a classic fashion photo book: it is a multi-layered portrait of a lifetime achievement. Across more than 500 pages, the story of designer Valentino...

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