Musings on Fashion and Style: Museo de la Moda

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International fashion icon Kate Moss and the premier South American fashion museum Museo de la Moda meet in this undeniably stylish volume that celebrates iconic vintage fashion moments throughout history. The Museo de la Moda, founded in 2007 and directed by Chile's first textile industry scion Jorge Yarur Bascun, is one of the world's most important but least-known museums of its kind, housing exquisite garments from nineteenth-century Dolman shawls to twenty-first-century sequin dresses by Balmain.

Edited by Kate Moss and fashion curator Lydia Kamitsis, this volume features a stylish selection of one hundred archival pieces from the museum, each charting different fashion trends that have inspired Moss's personal sartorial style. Organised by fashion theme, from 1920s opera coats to 1960s Swinging London designs, but also including iconic pieces of pop culture, such as Marilyn Monroe's black dresses and Jimi Hendrix's Indian tunics, each chapter showcases new images of the museum garments as selected by Moss, accompanied by interesting anecdotes and street-style photography documenting Moss wearing that particular fashion trend. This is a chic volume that will appeal to Moss's global following and readers passionate about style, fashion history, design, and culture.

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"...look out for the debut of Musings on Fashion & Style: Museo de la Moda, edited by Kate Moss. The Rizzoli title features 240 photographs, along with thoughts from the supermodel on her favorite eras in fashion history." DAILY FRONT ROW

"The supermodel has gotten a new makeover, this time as a fashion curator. Kind of. Kate Moss has teamed up with Jorge Yarur Bascun, the director of the Museo de la Moda in Santiago, Chile, to publish a book featuring items in its collection and pieces from her wardrobe plus fashion tips. Called Musings on Fashion and Style: Museo de la Moda, the lavishly illustrated book (published by Rizzoli) is due out this month." ARTNET.COM

"Edited by Kate Moss andcurated by Jorge Yarur, the book is published by the renowned publisher Rizzoli and focuses 'iconic vintage fashion moments throughout history and features a selection of one hundred archival pieces from the museum.'"L'OFFICIEL USA

"The book is divided into different trends and fashion pieces like tuxedo, lace, florals, opera coat, glitter and so forth, each accompanied by clothing and accessories from the museums collections coupled with photographs of Moss wearing the trends. Every Kate Moss fan needs to have this book." FORBES.COM

"Musings on Fashion and Style: Museo de la Moda, to be published by Rizzoli on Oct. 15, features images of Moss rocking some of her trademark looks, such as bias-cut satin slips and sequined capes, alongside photographs of pieces from the museum that fit into the same trend."
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Author Bio

Kate Moss is an iconic British supermodel, author, and founder of the Kate Moss Agency.

Lydia Kamitsis is an independent fashion curator based in France.