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Founded in 1969, Sportmax has built its heritage on a strong base of beautiful Italian craftmanship and bold innovation. Over the last fifty years, this iconic brand has presented a steadfast dedication to smart lines and clean form that Vogue once characterized as “a far cry from conventional.” ...
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Olivier Saillard is a graduate in art history. In 1995, he was appointed as director of the Fashion Museum of Marseille. In 2000, he became responsible for the programming of “Mode” exhibitions at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and, in 2010, director of the Palais Galliera, at the Paris Fashion Museum. He currently serves as the artistic director of image and culture at J.M. Weston, and has done so since 2018. The author of several books, including Ideal History of Contemporary Fashion (Textuel, 2009), Saillard has also curated major exhibitions such as Yohji Yamamoto: Just Clothes, Christian Lacroix: Clothing History, Azzedine Alaia, Madam Gres: Sewing at Work, and The Ephemeral Museum of Fashion.
Luke Leitch is a fashion writer based in both London and Milan. His current roles include contributing editor to Vogue Runway (US), editor at large of L’Uomo Vogue (Italy), style editor for The Economist’s 1843 magazine (UK) and contributing fashion editor to GQ (UK). Mr. Leitch has also held deputy fashion editor roles at two leading British newspapers, The Daily Telegraph and The Times. He has covered fashion during just one decade of Sportmax’s fifty‑year history and began his career first as a gossip columnist and then as an arts correspondent for the London Evening Standard newspaper. He wishes Sportmax made menswear.
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Sportmax, mezzo secolo di stile in un libro, Vanity Fair Online (Italy), December 2019
Sportmax celebra i suoi primi 50 anni in un libro, Vogue Online (Italy), December 2019
Brioni e Sportmax, due storie italiane di moda nel mondo, The Way Online (Italy), December 2019
Sportmax 回顧50年的精彩故事!, Marie Claire (Hong Kong), December 2019
Sportmax’in 50 yıllık tarihi, L’Officiel Online (Turkey), December 2019
Sportmax Celebrates 50 Years: Why the Brand is Still Worshipped, Elle Online (France), February 2020
In conversation with Sportmax fashion director Grazia Malagoli, Hashtag Legend (UK), February 2020
Page count
256 pages
Number of illustrations
228
Language
English
Released on
January 2020
Dimensions
W 28 x L 36 x D 5 cm
Cover materials
Silk hardcover in a luxury slipcase
ISBN
9781614288541
Weight
9.0 kg
Author
Luke Leitch
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