Alix Browne is currently the Features Director at W Magazine. She is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in NYC in the Fashion Photography Program. She has formerly worked as Deputy Design Editor for The New York Times Style Magazine; Style Editor for The New York Times Sunday Magazine and was a founding editor and Editor in Chief of V Magazine.
"As fall unfurls, glossy and gorgeous coffee table books
appear"
-The New York Times
"A new book celebrates the most electrifying fashion shows of
recent history, recasting the runway as seductive art
performance."
-Interview Magazine
". . . should be read by all involved with fashion, including
lecturers and mentors for students."
-Colin McDowell, BusinessofFashion.com
"At its core, Runway is about the times in recent fashion
when "you had to be there." As paper-and-ink, it leaves us wishing
we could have been. It is a lucid presentation of contemporary
history that arouses wistfulness and invites us to dream."
-Crush Fanzine
"Without question, the cast of characters reads like a who's who of
fashion over the past quarter of a century."
-Jeffrey Felner, New York Journal of Books
"Editor Alix Browne's study of how the most progressive fashion
designers have pioneered the idea of using a show or presentation
as a means of creative expression."
-15 of the Most Covetable Fashion Tomes to Hit Bookshelves This
Year, Vogue
"Holiday books: From 250-ton icebergs flown in from
Scandinavia to sets adorned in more than a million real flowers,
fashion shows are more than a simple parade of next season's
clothing: They're a means by which to make manifest a designer's
all-encompassing vision. In Runway: The Spectacle of
Fashion, author and features director at W magazine Alix
Browne highlights shows from Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Marc
Jacobs, and more to explore the most significant and sensational
productions from the last two decades of catwalk history."
-Departures.com
"...chronicles the stand-outs, from models floating down a Milanese
canal at Carol Christian's Poell's 2004 show to the moving
escalators at spring 2013 Louis Vuitton."
-WMagazine.com
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