What Cameron Silver doesn't know about fashion is not worth knowing. For fifteen years he has owned Decades, the renowned vintage boutique on Melrose Avenue, hunting the world for couture from decades past, matching gorgeous red-carpet gowns to actresses including Chloe Sevigny and Michelle Williams, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez. In Decades, Silver commits all his sartorial knowledge to paper in an over-sized, visually stunning book: ten chapters, each devoted to the iconic looks of a decade. Josephine Baker and Zelda Fitzgerald show off their legs in the 20s; Jackie O embodies feminine polish in the 60s; Calvin Klein's minimalism meets Jacobs' grunge remix in the 90s. This true fashion bible includes original designer sketches and patterns and photos of rare couture as styled decades ago and today. There are contributions from and interviews with movie stars, models, and style icons, fashion editors and revered designers. Decades is a fashion treasure: a century of colorful history to inspire the stylish of today for years to come.
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"An alluring visual record of how a legend wears her clothes." - New York Times
"An editorialized take on twentieth-century fashion in away that befits the legacy he's created at Decades."--Style.com
"A chic book, its own supermodel of sorts: tall and slim and faintly exotic. Inside, each of the 10 chapters revisits styles of a different era, all in Silver's knowledgeable, slighly sardonic voice."--C Magazine
"Cameron Silver know more than a thing or two about shopping vintage - he knows almost everything. And he's putting all of that expertise into his new book Decades: A Century of Fashion, which explores the history of the genre decade by decade, and the lessons vintage can teach about fashion today."--Instyle
"[Silver] pays tribute to the iconic styles of the past hundred years in lavish, loving detail, zooming in on fabrics, trims and silhouettes."--Entertainment Weekly
"Visually stunning...It's an education about the people who create fashion but also the people who bring the looks to life, which, in this decade dominated by the Hollywood red carpet, is more important than ever."--LA Times
"This hefty and gorgeous coffee table book has Silver's flashy personality all over it and contains inspiring photographs of iconic women of decades past, interviews with celebrities and Silver's own words of satorial wisdom. Want to become an expert on vintage fashion? Read this."--Fashionista
About the Author
Cameron Silver founded the Decades boutique in Los Angeles in 1997. He is a favorite pundit on E! Entertainment and Access Hollywood, and was named one of Time magazine's "25 Most Influential Names and Faces in Fashion" in 2002. He is a contributing editor at Departures and C Magazine, as well as a consultant to various upscale brands.
Rebecca DiLiberto has written or collaborated on more than a dozen books and contributed extensively to In Style and the Boston Globe. She lives in Los Angeles.
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GORGEOUS
Oct 17 2012
By Rodney Keenan
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What a concise look at the history of fashion. It is amazing, the number of images included in this beautiful large-scale book, which I had never before seen. The iconic pieces are included, but these images are fresh and stunning. It really is a must for any fashion library.
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Cameron Silver's Dazzling Decades: A Century in Fashion
Oct 21 2012
By NancyJane Goldston
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It's on my Holiday list as the coffee table book of the season if not the year. No one quite knows how to bring us into the world of fashion, chronicle it and have our hearts racing with smashing,insightful commentary and truly adept fashion photographic editing like Cameron Silver. As one of the pre-eminent purveyors of vintage, Cameron Silver has delivered a superb editorial take on twentieth-century fashion. Showcasing over 100 years, obviously by the decades, Cameron's first person writing style and genius photo editing, in a thoroughly modern style, make this a must have collectible for any fashion lover. Now add it to your wish list. Better yet, indulge and get it for yourself. It takes a special voice and talent to take you through a century of fashion in style. Cameron Silver is the only one who could pull it off with such wit,know-how and love. Nancy Jane (NJ) Falk, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of TheBlondeAndTheBrunette.com
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absolutely un-put-down-able!
Oct 21 2012
By CDG
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I thought I had seen every important fashion image by now-- wrong. This book is packed with so much beauty, intelligence, and great story-telling-- both hilarious and highly emotional, I found it addictive. Not 'another fashion book' by any means, the way the mesmerizing Mr. Silver takes you by the hand to, say, Princess Irene Galitzine's bedroom in Rome, unchanged for decades and deliriously undiscovered, to the modern day boudoir of the so-chic and boom-boom sexy Dita Von Tease, through a re-education in Style that goes nose-bleed high and Hollywood down low, as only he can do... Mr. Silver is the fashion companion anyone would rather sit next to anywhere, anytime. Read this book and you'll see why!
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