David Bowie Play Book

David Bowie Is is the first book that grants access to the internationally acclaimed artist and performer’s personal archive of costumes, ephemera, original design artwork…..

What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar wavelength and find exactly what they’d been looking for all along? These are the questions asked by Simon Critchley in this keen-eyed, moving and textured tribute to Bowie. Each […]

In spite of nihilist radicalness and its prophetic promise of “No Future”, punk did guarantee a future to the fashion system by putting forward myriad new ideas. It ritualised violence, its visual terrorism was transformed into a successful sartorial stereotype.  The Punk Playbook invites you to play punk by colouring in, cutting, pasting, and putting […]

Beginning with rockabilly, moving on to folk music, sliding over to electric, and falling into a psychedelic phase, like a chameleon Bob Dylan has changed his skin repeatedly over the years, juggling his image with apparent ease and subverting the prevailing social and aesthetic models each time. His Supro guitar and the leather jacket – […]