Foreign rights: Aurora Peccarisi aurora.peccarisi@harpercollins.it
HarperCollins Italia will be publishing the book by philosopher Emanuele Coccia and Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele. It will also be published by Day Street in the US, by 4th Estate in UK and by Hanser in Germany.
For the first time Alessandro Michele, Creative Director of Gucci, uncovers and reveals his world with the philosopher Emanuele Coccia. The result of their encounter is an exploration that reaches the pure essence of Michele’s creations, showing how his work ultimately revolutionized the contemporary fashion system. Michele is transforming fashion: with him, dressing is a universe that allows women and men to live in a different way. All through the pages of this book fashion becomes the place where all the artistic disciplines tend to, to bring a new form to life.
A title that will appeal not only to fashion and celebrities lovers, but also to readers passionate about art and philosophy and will become a must-read for students and professionals linked to fashion and design industry.
Some reading material will be ready soon (an introduction and the first chapters).
Emanuele Coccia
Emanuele Coccia is an Italian philosopher. Since 2011 he is a professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Starting with studies on Averroes and Averroism, his research has turned to the ontological status of images and their normative power, and to the investigation of the nature of living things.
He has collaborated on editorial projects with the philosopher Giorgio Agamben and has held lectures and courses at the universities of Freiburg, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, Columbia University and Princeton.
Among his publications La vita sensibile (Sensible Life: A Micro-ontology of the Image, 2011), Il bene nelle cose. La pubblicità come discorso morale (Goods: Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image, 2014), La vita delle piante. Una metafisica della mescolanza (The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture, 2017), Métamorphoses (2020). His most recent essay is Filosofia della casa (Philosophy of the Home, 2021). His books have been translated into several languages. He is a columnist for Libération and collaborates with Le Monde and la Repubblica.
Foreign rights sold in
Germany: Hanser
UK: 4th Estate
US: Dey Street