Fashion Beauty

On these pages you'll find more than 101 reasons why "Black is Beautiful." From the sultry stars of film and television to the sexy divas of fashion and music, this book pays tribute to those women who are changing the way America defines fashion and beauty. Full-color photographs from such top photographers as Steven Meisel, Gilles Bensimon, Paolo Roversi, and George Holz showcase unforgettable Black women at the forefront of style and beauty--woemn who have helped lift the self-esteem of sisters everywhere. "SoulStyle features the newly annoitned and the continuously crowned royalty of fashion. Arranged in categories from Glamour Girls to Hip-Hop chic, Seventies Goddesses to Supermodels, these remarkable photos are accompanied by insightful biographies and commentary from leading arbiters of fashion and style. The book is distinct, sensual, and extraordinary. Each chapter is a candid and provocative look at the influences these women have had on popular culture.

The Internet provides an ideal and ever-expanding medium for high fashion. Unlike so many other products casualties of recent e-commerce, fashion's primary appeal is fantastical rather than material. It depends on promotion, aspiration, and desire, and the Internet provides full access to pictures and techniques that create fashion's fantasy. Laird Borrelli identifies the sites that are most effective for the established designers, but also those that make an immediate impact from a small or previously nonexistent base. Illustrated with exciting visual sequences throughout, Net Mode crystallizes a complex subject into three main themes: -- Fashion Image: Designer sites, from Dior to Lacroix, generate desire through fantasy. Among the most beautifully designed sites on the Web, they often make heavy use of Java and Flash technology, as well as being audio-and video-enhanced. -- Fashion Sale: The emphasis here is on cyberboutiques, ranging from Colette in Paris to Something in London, each a stylish Internet reflection of the strengths of their bricks-and-mortar business. -- Fashion Talk: Elle, Vogue, and other print magazines have taken up the Internet, but entrepreneurial publishers are also using low-cost sites to establish new ways of communicating fashion -- high speed, picture heavy, with abundant, frequently updated visual information. This lively and beautifully designed survey provides vital and informative analysis for anyone in the fashion world, anyone interested in fashion, or anyone involved commercially or creatively -- with the Internet.