Published in conjunction with an exhibit organized by the Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI) at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, this beautifully illustrated book is a unique and dazzling exploration of the perception and relevance of color across three hundred years of fashion, taste, and cultural mores.

Conceived by the celebrated design duo Viktor & Rolf, whose audacious fashions grace runways in Paris and New York, this edition includes more than eighty works by designers such as Balenciaga, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Junya Watanabe, Yohji Yamamoto, Madeleine Vionnet, Vivienne Westwood, Azzedine Alaïa, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Viktor & Rolf, and Rei Kawakubo, most of them from KCI’s permanent collections.