Italian designer Giambattista Valli proposes A#10 as an essay on the topic “what is beauty?” with contributions from many contemporary artists, photographers and influential style icons including Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, Chiara Clemente, Lucio Fontana, David Hicks, Richard Avedon, Slim Aarons, Iman and the late Corinne Day.


Join Valli on his inspiring journey through a raw underworld of beauty, juxtaposed by a glamorous and decadent bygone era


Publisher: A Magazine

Language: English

Size: 29.5 x 23 cm

Weight: 984 g

Pages: 224

Binding: Softcover

ISBN: 9789077745090


TABLE OF CONTENTS


WHAT IS BEAUTY? by Giambattista Valli

THE PHILOSOPHY OF YVES SAINT LAURENT

LOST BEAUTY

by Luigi Scialanga

BODIES AS LANDSCAPES by Corinne Day &. Hélene Binet

LA QUESTIONNAIRE

by François Sagar

STRUCTURES & TEXTURES

by George Platt-Lanes & Aaron Sukind

BEAUTY SEEN FROM THE FRONT ROW by Godfrey Deemy

GESTURES OF MOVEMENT by Kichard Aredon & Nick Knigha

A DREAM YOU DREAM ALONE IS ONLY A DREAM. by Jack Pierion & Françons Haland

WE DO NOT REMEMBER DAYS. WE REMEMBER MOMENIS hy Nan Goldin, Horst P. Hars, Stim Aarons, Peder Sclesinger & Rosane Last

CAPTURED BY VENUS

by Kenzo Takada

OPULENCE & ECLECTICISM

by David Hicks, Peter Schlesinger & Horst P. Horst, Lue Radeiwill

LA QUESTIONNAIRE

by Margherita Missoni & Anne MeNally

A CONSCIOUS MIND by Marina Abramovic

TIMELESS INFLUENCE

by Giambattista Valli, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni & Louise Bourgeois

MATTRESS

by Robert Mapplethorpe

STAGED BEAUTY by Erik Madigan Heck

FATE IS WRITTEN IN THE FACE: A SERIES OF INSPIRING GENTLEMEN

OH DREAMMAKER YOU HEART BREAKER

by Shala Monroque

ART MIRRORS LIFE

by Nan Goldin, Louise Bourgeois & Slim Aarons

FIND BEAUTY NOT ONLY IN THE THING ITSELF.

BUT IN THE PATTERN OF THE SHADOWS by Fraageis Halard & Lee Radziwill

LA QUESTIONNAIRE

by Diane Von Furstenberg & Bianca Brandolini D'Adda

SWEET THE MEMORY IS TO ME. OF A LAND BEYOND THE SEA by Chiara Clemente

BEAUTY

by Andre Leon Talley

SELF-PORTRAITS by Sasha Pivovarova

BEAUTY IS A TRAP

by Andres Setrano, Francis Bacon & Old Masters

LA BEAUTE: SAVOIR LA DECOUVRIR

by Erik Madigan Heck