As a student in Industrial Design I am always looking for good books to inspire, inform or entertain me. This book does them all. The book looks at some of the biggest forces and most interesting design persons in the field of design today. Usually the first thing to grab me about a good book are good pictures, and this book has some great pictures which communicate the products beautifully. But the most interesting and most valuable part of the book for me was reading about each company or designer and what they do and how do they go about design and what they see is important to design. I have found it insightful and extremely entertaining to read. It is one of the best books I have bought to date, it definitely goes in my top five.

I'm now reading, no, watching this book. This book is unexpectedly amazing that contains almost every thing. You can understand what is the design of "TODAY' and of this century. This small book will easily possible to make someone get to begin studying design. Keep this book! It's so nice. The Beatles, Web Site, Blade Runner, Eve Machina, Metropolis, Apple iMac, Notre-Dame de Haut, Sofa, Tiffany Lamp, Moka Express, Swatch, Vespa, Campbell's Soup Can and War Poster and more...with enjoyable...Great! Small but quite big.

I had high hopes for this book. There isn't enough out there to visually represent the work of Westwood. These pictures catalogue her work from the early 70's to her latest collections, but none are of high quality decent enough to compliment her outstanding and truly creative visions. Better to spend your money on the "Universe of Fashion" book on her, or if you're looking for literature, check out "Unfashionable Life" by Jane Mulvagh.

Short and very sweet. This brief book is entertaining. If you like Vivienne Westwood then this is the first book that I would advise you to buy. It is insightful and has some fantastic colour plates. The downfall of some of the other books about Westwood (eg. Fred Vermorel) is that they have too few images, which is bizarre as fashion is about visibility. ciao,

Maureen Farquhar

I loved this book because Gene's the bomb-he worked at worldsend and then later lived in the Chelsae in NYC & designed his own great stuff influenced by the Marx Bros. I want another copy Gene-and thanks for all those years in that crazy backward-clocked, ship-wrecked floors and I miss Piracy, Bow Wow wow, Les Incroyables of Galliano's 1st st martin's collection- i miss The mud of NOSTALGIA OF MUD-the world tour with the Supreme Team- but metaphorically speaking it is like the 2 in that early Balloon 1785-there was the Duke D'Arlandres & there was Pilatre de Rozier- Funny how the latter was more CAREFUL"STOP looking at the lake below-or we shall be in it-well de Rozier died ayear later accidentally mixing gases whilst crossing the English channel-but, Westwood, like the flying aristocrat continues to navigate fASHION'S EPHEMERAL CLOUDS...... i miss this period & would adore e mailing others who share my historical fascinations and their relation to the turn of the century PS thanks gene 4 showing me how to do a deeper push -up in your Chelsea room with those push-up bars i still own!!!!! doremesa@home.com