Couture, the Great Designers - Hardcover

Milbank, Caroline Rennolds

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0941434516 ISBN 13: 9780941434515

Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1997

Synopsis

Offers profiles of the top fashion designers of the past and present, shows examples of their work, and describes the innovations and characteristic styles of each designer

About this title

About the Author:

Caroline Rennolds Milbank, formerly the head of the costume department at Sotheby's works in New York as a consultant and appraiser of antique and couturier clothing for museums, auction galleries, and collectors. She lives in Connecticut with her husband.

From Publishers Weekly:

Drawing on noted design houses and fashion designers for choice illustrations, Milbank, former head of Sotheby's costume department, weaves together a handsome collection of 175 color and 225 duotone picturesartists' sketches, house photographs, period magazine illustrations, documents. Her 61 insightful if often flattering cameos of famous couturiers' lives and careers form an engaging social history of changing styles. We learn that Charles Frederick Worth not only pioneered the bustle silhouette, he also created a system of pattern parts allowing for near-perfect fit with fewer fittings. We're reminded that Pierre Cardin in the 1960s was an innovator whose clothes made references to space travel and Op Art, and that Elsa Schiaparelli got her start by filling a rented Parisian studio with Armenian knitters. Contemporary fashions discussed include Armani's impeccable blazers as long as skirts, Pauline Trigere's slim, free-falling look, Kenzo's whimsical folk creations, Perry Ellis's blend of traditional and offbeat. All the big names are here: Dior, Chanel, Givenchy, Patou, Fortuny, Rouff, Blass, etc. Literary Guild bonus selection. November
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About this edition

• Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0941434516
• ISBN 13: 9780941434515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 430