Fashion 2001
by Lucille Khornak
Viking Press, 112 pages, 1982
I am a sucker for any book about the future that was published in the past. Fashion 2001 is one of these books and my favourite of the lot.
Naturally, it’s fun and amusing to read what people think 2001 will be like, especially long after the year has passed. When those people are top designers like Karl Lagerfeld, Oscar de la Renta, Diane Von Furstenberg, Issey Miyake and pretty much every important fashion name working at the time of the book’s 1982 publication, it make the experience even more entertaining.
Fashion 2001 is a giant of a book in many ways, not only content-wise, but quite literally. Measuring 10-1/2″ x 14-1/2″, it’s chock-full of colour photographs depicting designers’ futuristic fashions and several accompanying column inches of text explaining each subject’s vision. That author Lucille Khornak’s photography screams 1980s makes the book even more compelling. It’s everything I love: wild predictions, massive photographs (for a book) and that distinctly ’80s visual style, making it a title I return to over-and-over again.
