Jean Patou: A Fashionable Life
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (660 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 2080202979 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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One of the Best Fashion Books in long time This is really an excellent for all fans of fashion!! The photos and illustrations are exceptional. This book is more inspiring than any book of Chanel and I hate to admit it, but he seems to me to have been a better and more talented designer than she. If you love twenties and early thirties fashion, you must have this in your collection.. "Five Stars" according to Amazon Customer. So beautiful. So elegant!!. "thank you!" according to Lorrie. thank you very much just as I had hoped will continue to purchase from this site and suggest to others.
During the 1920s and 1930s, the French couturier Jean Patou was Chanel’s main rival: day pajamas, jersey sportswear, swimwear, and the little black dress were all among the innovative designs marking Patou’s remarkable, albeit brief, career as the king of Parisian fashion. An illustrated monograph of haute couture designer Jean Patou’s life and career during the apex of twentieth-century glamour, drawn from previously unpublished family archives. This book recounts the story of Patou’s charmed life and career during the most glamorous years of the twentieth century. This book is an essential reference for anyone interested in the history of fashion and of the greatest years of Parisian style.. Signed by major names in fashion photography (Baron de Meyer, Laure Albin Guillot, or the Seeberger brothers), the vintage photographs—presented alongside fashion designs, original fabric swatches, art deco furniture, perfume bottles, and garments photographed especially for this volume—retrace the universe of this extraordinary aesthete and speak of a certain minimalis
Jean Patou, A compendium of never-before-seen archival photos and sketches from the illustrious French designer and perfumier whose heyday was the ‘20s and ‘30s.” Wall Street Journal“…unprecedented access by Patou’s heirs to diaries, letters, sketchbooks and client lists, reveals the brief but flowing arc of his career.” Flare"There are few things more luxurious than the glamour and haute couture of the twentieth-century, and this book totally embodies that. Though his career was cut short, what he accomplished during those years was truly inspiring. In the 20s and 30s, Patou was Chanel’s biggest rival. T
She curated an exhibition on Christian Bérard at the Musée d’art moderne Richard Anacréon in Granville, France, in 2011. Emmanuelle Polle is a historian and journalist.