Christian Lacroix on Fashion author-gilles-de-chabaneix For this book - the

For this book - the first to include the artist's rare work in colour - Desmazieres has delved deep into the arcane theme of cabinets of curiosities

Ben Schonzeit and Tjalf Sparnaay

Over 200 photographs provide a visual reference of objects both useful and decorative

presents the work of over one hundred artists from around the world

Christian Lacroix on Fashion author-gilles-de-chabaneix For this book - theThis is not a retrospective, but my own look at the costume collections of the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, from which I chose pieces from all eras, some never before exhibited. I chose those that were most inspiring, those that best told the story of fashion that I would have wanted to tell if I were the museum curator that I intended to be when I was a student My twenty years in the fashion business are another way of telling this story, and I selected