Claude Montana: Fashion Radical

This book looks at the principles and practices that underpin Montanas work. It records numerous conversations with Montana himself that help us to understand the essential forces that have shaped his work while scores of catwalk images and reproductions of his sketches reveal the energy and singularity of his vision. It is a journey punctuated with intimate comments and observations by those who have accompanied the designer at different points along the way–among others the photographers Dominique Issermann Tyen and Paolo Roversi; the embroiderer Franois Lesage; the designer Alain Mikli; and the makeup artist Olivier Echaudemaison. Their moving testimonies are scattered throughout these pages.