BE DAZZLED! NORMAN HARTNELL: SIXTY YEARS OF GLAMOUR AND FASHION

PICK, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0977787532 ISBN 13: 9780977787531

Published by Pointed Leaf Press, New York, 2007

Language: English

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4to. Pp: 268. Original colour illustrated dust jacket. Original colour illustrated boards with black and red text to spine. Copiously illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Forward by H.R.H. Princess Michael of Kent. Inscribed at title page: "To Louise and David Collins. With Good wishes Michael Pick."Heavy book will require extra postage.ISBN: 9780977787531 Very good boards with some dust and small creases to top of spine, with minor surface marks to front and rear. Very good plus dust jacket with fading to flaps, small creases to top of spine and marks to verso at spine.

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Title: BE DAZZLED! NORMAN HARTNELL: SIXTY YEARS OF GLAMOUR AND FASHION
Publisher: Pointed Leaf Press, New York
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0977787532
ISBN 13: 9780977787531
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Norman Hartnell (1901-1979) was a uniquely British genius. For nearly sixty years he was a major personality in the world of fashion. By the mid 1930s, Hartnell's meteoric rise to fame resulted in London becoming a centre of style that closely rivalled Paris. Known for glamorous evening clothes, Hartnell augmented his early design successes by creating a series of stunning wedding dresses for his younger society clientele. His bridal extravaganzas culminated in the romantic 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip. While Hartnell clients included members of the English upper class as well as the best-known stage and film actresses of the time, it was his royal patronage that assured him a place in history. The famous White Wardrobe created for Queen Elizabeth (and photographed by Cecil Beaton) in the late 1930s changed her image forever; the extraordinary coronation robes designed for Elizabeth II in 1953; and the sublimely simple wedding dress he made for Princess Margaret when she w

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Michael Pick is formerly an Exhibitioner in History, Gonville and Calus College, Cambridge.

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