Reviews
'Beauty and brains are a winning combination. This fall, you can have both -- right on top of your coffee table. Curated by 10 style superstars, including Alexander McQueen, SAMPLE (Phaidon) is a glossy encyclopedia of 100 innovative designers.' ( 7x7 Magazine ) 'Lovers of fashion will find much to ponder in this excellent overview of the next age of creators.' ( Publishers Weekly ), 'Part museum exhibition, part encyclopedia [...] presents [...] talent from fashion capitals to far-flung outposts. Rich, visual layouts combine unseen sketches, illustrations, prints and fabric swatches along with ad campaigns and shows.' ( Guardian ), 'Fashion nuts won't want to miss a thing. Lush close-ups of New York team Proenza Schouler's beading-drenched satin bustier dresses fill one page, Belgian Raf Simons's Loaded images of Arab-esque face coverings the next...some of these designers may end up as mere flashes in the pan; others will be superstars. I smell a series.' ( Toronto Globe and Mail ), 'A singularly stunning directory to the world's most promising up-and-comers.' ( Fashion Quarterly Magazine (Canada)), 'You can take it with you: SAMPLE , an artfully assembled book of sketches, photographs, swatches and other materials highlighting the work of 100 emerging fashion designers from around the world, is sure to delight clotheshorses everywhere.' ( Town and Country ), '1,000 illustrations, displaying the work of 100 often very obscure, often very gifted, and usually astonishingly young designers. By its very nature this compilation accentuates the avant-garde and the over-the-top; there's a lot of energy and creativity in these pages.' ( The Atlantic Monthly ), 'Addictively flickable...the chicest and glossiest scrapbook that ever existed...highly inspiring' ( Time Out ), 'A beautfiully presented, visual and insightful book that is to be seen on the most stylish coffee tables...definitive...pages brimming with beautiful visuals.' ( International Textiles ), 'Simply gorgeous...as covetable as a Lanvin shift... Sample isn't just another beautifully reproduced coffee table tome filled with fantastical fashion images (although it's admittedly all that as well) but more of a sculptural object in its own right...positively dazzling...a must-have tome.' ( Sunday Herald ), 'A private catwalk show ... sure to broaden your fashion horizons, however clued up you think you are.' ( Wallpaper* ), 'I'm obsessed with my latest purchase, an incredible fashion anthology called SAMPLE .'(Monique Meloche, Lucky Magazine ), 'For those who love fashion, SAMPLE (Phaidon) is without a doubt the best book in town.' (Harper's Bazaar), 'There are still some things in this often over-marketed and globally-accessible world we devotes call fashion that can cause your heart to flutter. One is the new fashion book from publishers Phaidon...To paraphrase Marilyn Monroe: it shakes you, it quakes you, it makes you go goosepimply all over...excellently edited...Even if you're not a fashion fiend this book is a must...[ Sample ] makes it clear that fashion is about so much more than clothes.' (Edwina Ing-Chambers, Financial Times ), 'For those who love fashion, SAMPLE (Phaidon) is without a doubt the best book in town.' ( Harper's Bazaar ), 'Phaidon Press, no slouch in the special-effects department, has entered the fray with SAMPLE : 100 Fashion Designers, 010 Curators, designed by the doyenne of high-concept book design, Julie Hasting... SAMPLE is a masterpiece of production profligacy.' ( Paper Magazine ), 'Bring the catwalk into your home with Sample... revel in 100 of the most cutting-edge designers...Designers, stylists, photographers: your style bible has landed.' ( Metro ), 'Definitely more couture than prêt-a-porter...an elegantly overblown presentation, extensively and beautifully illustrated and bound to make you chuck half your clothes out in shame. Form meets function and air kisses.' (Joseph Galliano, Gay Times )
