Vanitas: Lo stile dei sensi, Gianni Versace & Omar Calabrese, Leonardo Editore, RARE, 1991 Italian fashion photo HC

Versace, Gianni, and Omar Calabrese. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1991.

Italian Language, Very Good, HC, Folio, 13 1/4" x 10", [6] 220 + 6 pp.

ISBN: 883550130X

Text in Italian. Red cloth over board, stamped gilt lettering to spine, bumping to tips, light sunning to edges, otherwise, clean, crisp, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Good white pictorial dust jacket, featuring full-color photographs to front and back panels, gilt and black lettering to front panel, white lettering to spine, 1" chip to back panel, 1/2" chip to back bottom edge, some closed tears, some sunning and toning, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. [6] 220 + 6 pp., replete with black-and-white and full-color photographs. Includes essays, quotes, and photography credits. Beautifully produced reference book to Gianni Versace's interpretation of the "neo-baroque" aesthetic through photographs of Versace brand designs and quotes by people such as Naomi Campbell, Karl Lagerfeld, Kim Basinger, Mimmo Paladino, and many more.