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“Minimalism is about creating a perfect balance out of imbalance — about pairing shapes, fabrics, proportions and colors that speak to the harmony of the whole.”

So says Francisco Costa, the women’s creative director of Calvin Klein Collection, in his foreword to “Minimalism and Fashion: Reduction in the Postmodern Era,” a new book written by Elyssa Dimant and published by Collins Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

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It’s the first volume devoted to the movement, and in it, fashion historian Dimant examines the evolution of minimalism from American art in the Sixties to the influential fashion movement in the Nineties, when designers like Klein himself, Martin Margiela, Miuccia Prada, Hussein Chalayan and Jil Sander pushed the idea into new aesthetic territory.

Dimant comes to the subject with much experience under her belt. The year-old author is an adjunct professor at Parsons The New School for Design