555

Francisco Costa is a Brazilian designer, founder of the beauty line Costa Brazil, and former Women s Creative Director for Calvin Klein. Charlotte Cotton is an English author, visiting scholar, and curator of photography.

"The culminating product, “555,” which takes its name from the numerological symbol for transition and change, is a box set of 21 booklets in various formats and sizes, each one by a different photographer. Working amid the constraints of the pandemic, photographers such as Diego Villarreal used themselves and close friends or family members — in his case, his sister Inés — as subjects, while Collier Schorr’s portraits of the siblings June and Violet Getty reveal an affectionate intimacy. Costa considers the project a way to give the clothes a second life, however temporarily." — NY TIMES"Revisit Francisco Costa’s time as the creative director and women’s collections designer for Calvin Klein through the lens of 21 photographers in this innovative new publication. Costa selected pieces from his Calvin Klein women’s collections to inspire or be worn in each of their photographs, and the result, 555: Revisiting the Fashion Archive of Francisco Costa (Rizzoli), is presented as 21 unbound booklets in a limited-edition, sleek clamshell case." — Dujour"The beautifully crafted, limited edition clamshell box with twenty-one unbound booklets, this truly original book offers a reanimation and visual transformation by an extraordinary group of participating artists and image-makers such as Diego Villarreal, Marcelo Gomes, Nick Waplington, Jamie Hawkesworth, Hugh Lippe, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Joel Meyerowitz, Lea Colombo, and Collier Schorr, to name a few." — Curated Texan"Francisco Costa is a renaissance man for all seasons, a fashion designer turned beauty entrepreneur whose impeccable visual eye informs everything he touches. That includes a new monograph chronicling his 2003-2016 tenure as creative director of Calvin Klein women's, only the second designer at the helm after the founder retired. Costa invited 21 photographers, including Collier Schorr, Jamie Hawkesworth and Diego Villareal, into his archives to re-interpret the treasures inside. The result is a beautiful tribute to Costa's innovation, and a time capsule that lovingly cradles 13 beautiful years of great fashion." — TOWN AND COUNTRY“The high-concept endeavor breaks new ground in both fashion and image making. It features the work of 21 top photographers, who were asked to shoot some of Costa’s past work in artful, inventive ways.” —1ST DIBS