BILL 4
JULIE PEETERS (Ed.)
Published by Bill, Brussels, 2022, 184 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 31 cm, English
Price: €40

Bill is an annual magazine of photographic stories without any accompanying text to prioritise visual reading without distraction. Designed, edited, and produced by designer Julie Peeters and associate editor Elena Narbutaite, this issue contains 184 offset printed pages on thirteen different paper stocks. Contributions for this issue include George Tourkovasilis, Cinzia Ruggeri through the lenses of Ilvio Gallo and Occhiomagico, SC103’s first runway, Inge Grognard, Adrianna Glaviano, the contact sheets of Santi Caleca, Rosalind Nashashibi, as well as magazine spreads from Anders Edström, Curtis Cuffie, and Hans Hollein.

#2022 #andersedstrom #bill #cinziaruggeri #curtiscuffie #elenanarbutaite #fashion #georgetourkovasilis #hanshollein #ingegrognard #juliepeeters #photography #rosalindnashashibi #sc103
Cinzia Says...
Cinzia Ruggeri
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan & MACRO—Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, 2022, 416 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 32 cm, English / Italian
Price: €50 (Out of stock)

Artist and fashion designer Cinzia Ruggeri (1942–2019) made her artistic research a tool for inquiry into the functional and semantic properties of the object and the architectural and social dimension of the body, according to an original and nonconformist perspective enriched by irony and oneirism.

Cinzia Says… is the first monograph on this unconventional figure who moved across disciplines with absolute freedom. Her life and versatile practice were driven by the desire to redefine the formal and functional status of elements of everyday life, from apparel to accessories, from furnishings to lighting. Ruggeri created imaginative, provocative, elegant, and never predictable worlds. This book is constructed as a broad, expanded chronology offering documents, photographs, accounts, and essays.

You can see more of Cinzia Ruggeri’s work here and here.

#2022 #cinziaruggeri #fashion #italiandesign #moussepublishing
Sara Penn’s Knobkerry: An Oral History Sourcebook
Svetlana Kitto
Published by SculptureCenter, New York, 2021, 194 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16.5 × 24 cm, English
Price: €15

Produced in conjunction with Niloufar Emamifar, SoiL Thornton, and an Oral History of Knobkerry at SculptureCenter, New York.

Sara Penn’s Knobkerry: An Oral History Sourcebook is the culmination a years-long oral history project, conceived and developed by writer and oral historian Svetlana Kitto, that begins to demarcate a potential sphere of influence for artist and designer Sara Penn (1927–2020) and Knobkerry, the store she founded and ran in New York City. This publication assembles fifteen long-form interviews with figures close to Penn and Knobkerry, conducted by Kitto between 2017 and 2020, including Sara Penn, Andrea Aranow, Charles Daniel Dawson, David Hammons, Joanne Robinson Hill, Kate Prendergast and Jane Barrell Yadav, Sana Musasama, Eric Robertson, Fumi Schmidt, Seret Scott, Elena Solow, Carol Thompson, Ken Tisa, and Paulette Young. It also includes extensive reproductions of archival materials related to Penn and the store, collected by Kitto in collaboration with Penn and a number of her close relations.

Also available as a free PDF here.

#2021 #davidhammons #fashion #kentisa #knobkerry #niloufaremamifar #sarapenn #soilthornton #svetlanakitto
Mode Kleren Mode
Published by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1980, 132 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20.6 × 27.2 cm, Dutch / English
Price: €18 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Mode Kleren Mode at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 18 January–9 March, 1980.

SM Cat. No 667.

Designed by Wim Crouwel, André Toet gen, Geert Schriever (Total Design, Amsterdam).

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1980 #fashion #stedelijkmuseum #totaldesign #wimcrouwel
Questions looming
Rowan McNaught
Published by Mode and Mode, Melbourne, 2020, digital print (edition of 50), 20.5 × 25.5 cm, English
Price: €25

Produced on the occasion of Mode and Mode issue 8 Rogue which is assembled around the modernist satirical magazine Rogue (1915–1916) with newly commissioned texts by Astrid Lorange, Femke de Vries, Matthew Linde, Ulrich Lehmann, Isabelle Sully, Yair Oelbaum, Katherine Bernard and Rowan McNaught.

The issue produces a conceptual mirror in the form of a split screen: on the left, a facsimile of the first issue of Rogue, published in March 1915, and on the right, Mode and Mode. This collective enquiry into Rogue not only recirculates and reconsiders this distinctive project in the context a radically different scene of art, fashion and poetry of the present day.

You can read the issue online here.

#2020 #fashion #modeandmode #rowanmcnaught
To the letter
Isabelle Sully
Published by Mode and Mode, Melbourne, 2020, digital print (edition of 50), 17 × 40 cm, English
Price: €25

Produced on the occasion of Mode and Mode issue 8 Rogue which is assembled around the modernist satirical magazine Rogue (1915–1916) with newly commissioned texts by Astrid Lorange, Femke de Vries, Matthew Linde, Ulrich Lehmann, Isabelle Sully, Yair Oelbaum, Katherine Bernard and Rowan McNaught.

The issue produces a conceptual mirror in the form of a split screen: on the left, a facsimile of the first issue of Rogue, published in March 1915, and on the right, Mode and Mode. This collective enquiry into Rogue not only recirculates and reconsiders this distinctive project in the context a radically different scene of art, fashion and poetry of the present day.

You can read the issue online here.

#2020 #fashion #isabellesully #modeandmode