A/10
Giambattista Valli
Italian designer Giambattista Valli proposes A10 as an essay on the topic “what is beauty?” with contributions from many contemporary artists, photographers and influential style icons including Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, Chiara Clemente, Lucio Fontana, David Hicks, Richard Avedon, Slim Aarons, Iman and the late Corinne Day.
Join Valli on his inspiring journey through a raw underworld of beauty, juxtaposed by a glamorous and decadent bygone era.
“Take my hand and I will walk you through the fragments of my encounters with beauty, which time and time again have brought me to new doors, to unknown rooms and landscapes.”
Corinne Day, “Kirsten”, 2000
Table of Contents
The Philosophy Of Yves Saint Laurent
Lost Beauty
Bodies as Landscapes
La Questionnaire
Structures & Textures
Beauty Seen From The Front Row
Gestures Of Movement
A Dream You Dream Alone Is Only A Dream.
We Do Not Remember Days
Captured By Venus
Opulence & Eclecticism
La Questionnaire
A Conscious Mind
Timeless Influence
Mattress
Staged Beauty
Fate Is Written In The Face
Oh Dreammaker You Heart Breaker
Art Mirrors Life
Find Beauty Not Only In The Thing Itself
La Questionnaire
Sweet The Memory Is To Me
Beauty
Self-portraits
Beauty Is A Trap
La Beauté: Savoir la decouvrir
George Lying on the bed
Corinne Day
Ralph McWilliams
George Platt Lynes
Sophia Loren
Richard Avedon
A Dream You Dream Alone Is Only A Dream.
Jack Pierson & François Halard
Eric Boman, Saint-Tropez
Peter Schlesinger
Still-life composition designed by Mrs. Enid Annenberg
Horst P. Horst
Fitting I
Giambattista Valli
Mattress
Robert Mapplethorpe
Jackie Onassis at an ‘April in Paris’ ball
Slim Aarons
Whispers of Memory and Beauty
Chiara Clemente & Nathaniel Kilcer
Saint Jerome in Meditation
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio