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Split into ten chapters, which have been taken from the magazine’s most memorable cover lines, Dazed: 30 Years Confused: The Covers That Launched A Movement explores how these early manifestos reflect the magazine’s ethos today.The book portrays over 400 interviews with fashion giants such as Calvin Klein, Paloma Picasso, Tina Chow, Yves Saint Laurent, and Ralph Lauren and the behind-the-scenes of the industry. By diving into these delicious memoirs penned by some of the biggest names in the business, from designers who transformed the way we dress to the photographers capturing their work and the editors drawing inspiration from it. You'll learn more than you ever thought there was to know about the T-shirt – beloved by James Dean and created for US Navy personnel at the turn of the 20th century – and Levi's denim jeans, which we all have a pair of.

Every time we wear something, it's an opportunity to tell the world something without saying a word. Although this is the reality of the moment, the rules have always existed, to name a few, are the following: If you wear a shirt without a jacket, you don’t need a tie, if women wear miniskirts they shouldn’t wear a neckline, etc.

Spanning the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, Gods And Kings tells the story of these two charismatic figures and how the fashion industry changed over this time period. The book brings us closer to the great couturier, once considered the “queen of fashion” and Coco Channel’s rival Elsa Schiaparelli.