Unlike any other fashion designer at work today, Paul Smith has managed to combine a flair for eccentric, subversive detail, a dedication to the highest standards of craftmanship, and a business and marketing sense that has made him simply the most successful designer in British history. But this publication is not a fashion monograph; it is not a catalogue of suits. Rather, imagine Paul Smith's brain on a page: cleverly original and often humorous thoughts and ideas, perfectly executed, not just on the back of a man or a woman, but in shop windows, in advertising campaigns, in toys, photographs, and souvenirs brought back from travels throughout the world that became the inspiration for the look of a season. Words and images crash together in striking contrast to reveal the passions and amusements of a designer committed to both modesty in his pursuits and stunning innovation. Designed by Alan Aboud, Art Director for Paul Smith for more than a decade, and with a slipcase designed by Jonathan Ive (famed designer of the iMac), this publication will bring together observations, images, and, in its own unique design and production, all of the extraordinary qualities possessed by Paul Smith himself.

"Paul Smith's designs seem to emanate from some extraordinary and encyclopaedic awareness of the intensely codified nature of 'Britishness.' ...There is a species of poetry at work here, the equivalent of the literary awareness of the weight of the absent word. It is at once subtle and very strong, this quality, and to it I attribute the fact that many of my favorite garments, of the past twenty years, were designed by Paul Smith." William Gibson, from the Introduction

Introduction by William Gibson. Designed by Alan Aboud, Jonathan Ive and Michael Hodgson. Texts by Paul Smith, Richard Williams and James Flint. Interview by Richard Wentworth and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Illustrations by Glen Baxter, Paul Slater, and Mich Brownfield.

500 color.

10 x 8.25 in.

Paul Smith不但是英国最成功的设计师，获颁爵士头衔的他，更没有停止他季复一季的创作。在Paul Smith独到的慧眼下，带有英国学生气息的服装风格，让女装呈现带有男孩子般的风雅，即便是60年代的复古风情，Paul Smith亦未照本宣科的抄袭，反而像当年的Beatles乐团一样，无论是Mod或嬉皮装扮，皆展现新世代的性格。

PAUL SMITH，可说是英国代表性品牌之一，讲究英式传统的细腻缝制技巧，融入富现代感的设计风格，注重穿着剪裁上的实用性，适时的将幽默与智慧结合于设计之中，在材质与色彩的选择上更是别出新裁，令人惊艳。因此，整体形象感是典雅气度的绅士风范却释放出现代摩登的时尚氛围，拿捏的比例的确让人拍案叫绝，也因此颇获世界各地的好评，在日本，更是完全疯狂，争相购买。