After explaining the title of this wonderful book OTHERWORLDLY, the foreword by Greg French describes how fashion with its propensity for playing with fantasy and making dreams into reality is a kind of gateway to immerge ourselves in the idea of the otherworldly. From the receptive weaving of the designer’s needle to the acute precision of a 3D printer, and from the flash of the photographer’s bulb to the pixel rendered on a digital display, fashion transforms our naked bodies, pages, and screens into something other than their most basic forms.
And this book ensures that all these items become visible in wondrous pronunciations. Sketching the history of fantasy in theatre, film and art, the book shows the powerful tool for radically altering the world we see around us.
Then pages follow alphabetically on sixty individual designers from Nikoline Liv Andersen via Alexander McQueen, Martin Margiela, Lucy McRae, Peter Popps, Iris van Herpen to Robert Wun.
This book is a must, conceived, edited and so well-designed by Gestalten. With über-quality photos and well-written text. A feast for the eyes and food for the spirit!
Angela van der Burght
