- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Collins Design; 1 edition (Mar 30 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0060796634
- ISBN-13: 978-0060796631
- Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 18.5 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 748 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,192,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Book Description
Now in a gorgeous smaller-format hardcover: Vivienne Tam's award-winning, visionary China Chic.
In this beautiful book, celebrated fashion designer Vivienne Tam shares the individuality of her own cross-cultural style, combining traditional Eastern elements with a modern Western edge. This seductive East-meets-West style is brought alive as Tam takes us on a personal journey featuring the people, places, and things that inspire her. From the sexy cheongsam (the ultimate feminine dress) to the Mao jacket (gives power dressing a whole new meaning), from the elaborate Chinese opera houses to Zen gardens, she teaches such us how to savor the world in a bowl of noodles and the essence of Chinese design in her favorite Ming chair. Featuring art and commentary by some of Tam's most influential and celebrated colleagues, China Chic is hot, hip, and relevant to today's -- and tomorrow's -- pop culture.
About the Author
Vivienne Tam was born in Canton, China, but emigrated to Hong Kong where she was three years old.She has been featured in Newsweek, People, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Town & Country, Marie Claire, Harpers Bazarre, and Instyle .Her fashions are respresented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum at F.I.T., and the Andy Warhol museum.She now lives in New York City, where she runs a thriving international fashion-based- business.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
What a Gorgeous Book!!,
By "sushikitty" (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: China Chic (Hardcover)
I just decorated my entire apartment in a fusion-asian style and this book was the last item I bought - to sit on my coffee table and accentuate the living room. I look at it all the time!!Beautiful pictures throughout. What a wonderful book!!
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China......SO CHIC!,
By Vern Yip Fan (Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: China Chic (Hardcover)
If you are interested in Chinese art, culture, clothing, and history, then this is your Bible. Chalked full of photos that pop off the page. This witty and interesting book takes you from Ming to present day China. Vivienne Tam reflects on her life, born in mainland China, raised in Hong Kong, then moving to New York. She tells charming stories about what has influenced and inspired her and her collections. Great interviews with members of China's creative community, and who can forget Mao? The book is designed like a large coffee table version of Mao's little red book! This is simply stunning.
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Hong Kong and China Brilliantly Observed,
By Renee Thorpe (Karangasem, Bali) - See all my reviews
This review is from: China Chic (Hardcover)
Big book with stunning and bright photo illustrations that "bleed" off the page.Ms. Tam understands the style of Hong Kong and China (especially Shanghai) like few others; the best of that style is all here. She writes with enthusiasm and love for many essential aspects of the appeal of a culture known for its centuries-old aesthetic and for its mass-production and other mass sensibilities. Tam's education at the Hong Kong Polytechnic gives her a unique vantage point for isolating Chinese chic. She can view Cultural Revolution paraphrenalia with the eye of a designer, collector, and artist, rather than with painful memories. In a show of global sophistication, she understands East-meets-West sensibility (her chapter on Chinglish is told with an appealing tenderness). The text comes off without a shimmer of self-consciousness or compulsion to 'be Chinese.' There is camp, sex, zen, pizzazz and beauty, exploding off of every page and augmented by Tam's tales of exploration and appreciation. Bonus interviews with composer Tan Dun and choreographer/visionary Danny Yung are painfully short, but the reader still gets a healthy dose of young Chinese intelligensia. The text is endearingly personal, Vivienne Tam sharing with the reader what her senses take in. It's quite delightful. Great keepsake for people who have visited Hong Kong or Shanghai!
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