Steele, Valerie, Patricia Mears, and Clare Sauro. RALPH RUCCI: The Art of Weightlessness. 192 pp., over 100 illustrations, most in color. 4to, cloth. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, in association with New York, The Fashion Institute of Technology, 2007.
This new book on the contemporary American fashion designer is the first to explore Rucci's life and work in depth. Many aspects of the artist's career are discussed, from putting his designs in to the context of modern fashion history to examining his garments in detail.
Published to accompany an exhibition.