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Couture Book(TM) Launches Luxury Custom Made Photo Books Crafted With High-Style

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Special moments flawlessly captured in stylishly made-to-order books now within your reach

PHOENIX, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine if you can capture life's extraordinary moments in a richly bound, handmade, top-quality book that you can share with others. What's your passion? What do you want to share? A fashion show, a wedding, baby's first steps? Whatever it is, the launch of Couture Book makes it a reality.

Setting the new standard for luxurious, one-of-a-kind, museum quality books, a Couture Book is printed from the finest papers, bound in the world's most sumptuous fabrics and crafted with extreme attention to detail and finish, often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques. There is no equal.

Couture Book fills the desire to present priceless moments, fashion, products or events in an affordable and easily accessible way. Unparalleled, Couture Book employs personal service, old-world binding techniques, the latest printing technology, and the efficiency of the Internet.

Founded by Phyllis Lane, an award winning photographer, and Rodrigo Coelho, creator of a successful business process consulting company that helped Fortune 1000 companies to streamline operations with Internet-based systems, Couture Book is the successful merger of art and commerce.

"Our passion has been to help people express the emotion of their photos through an elegant book that is so well crafted and designed that it could be found in a library in Oxford or with a runway model during New York Fashion Week," said Lane.

The books are designed in a variety of formats with highly customizable elements that will appeal to each person's creativity. With the option of five different lines and distinctive styles within each line, a Couture Book is custom-crafted to a person's individual preference. Every book design has "couture," or hand-sewn, bindings using French silk thread, imported paper and fabrics hand-picked from around the world.

"The creative process in designing a Couture Book will appeal to the passion of novices and art and fashion designers alike," said Coelho. "Our website, http://www.couturebook.com, makes designing your own Couture Book easier than ever." Through the internet, individuals can send their digital photographs; choose a sophisticated design ranging from the French line to the Himalayan line and have a beautiful book that reflects their own style. The unique process is captured in a film now on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6dcrTVxwlE

With the website, templates and options, even more customization and attention to detail is available through Couture Book's full-service Concierge. The Concierge will meet any design need and work with an individual's input to provide a complete, museum-quality book that reflects the client's creative desires. As part of the concierge service, Couture Book can also provide professional photographers to attend and document a product launch, event, or personal occasion.

By purchasing a Couture Book, clients can also give back to the community at large. "We know that consumers today like to feel as though they are making a contribution to a cause," said Lane. "We feel that our unique museum- quality books enrich individual's lives, and we believe in building a better world and enriching the lives of others by giving back to the community."

With every purchase of a Couture Book, clientele will select a charity from a list of organizations, such as The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation, American Forests, or Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Inc., in which five percent of the proceeds from each purchased book will be donated to the charity of choice to help make the lives of those in need a little brighter.

A year ago the unsurpassed quality of the photography in each Couture Book would not be possible with out the technology of the 5500 Indigo press. Using a patented six-color ElectroInk system that produces a continuous look of smoother skin tones and richer colors, exceptional small run printing is now available with quick turnaround times and at a cost now affordable to most people.

"We've employed old world binding and craftsmanship with a whole new world in high end digital printing and made it accessible to anyone," said Coelho.

About Couture Book

Throughout history, great works have been created from combinations of art and commerce. Couture Book allows each person to express their creative passions. The artistic desire to elegantly exhibit one's personal photography and the creative use of technology lead Rodrigo Coelho and Phyllis Lane to combine their creative photographic and business talents to found Phoenix- based Couture Book. Prior to launching Couture Book, Coelho and Lane created CMYK Books and Together book, which have been featured in Oprah Magazine and Real Simple Magazine.

For more information, log onto http://www.couturebook.com.