In My Fashion: An Intimate Memoir About the People, Places, and Events That Make Up the World of High Fashion
In My Fashion: An Intimate Memoir About the People, Places, and Events That Make Up the World of High Fashion | Rare and modern books | Ballard, Bettina
In My Fashion: An Intimate Memoir About the People, Places, and Events That Make Up the World of High Fashion
In My Fashion: An Intimate Memoir About the People, Places, and Events That Make Up the World of High Fashion | Rare and modern books | Ballard, Bettina
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1960
- Place of printing
- New York
- Author
- Ballard, Bettina
- Publishers
- David McKay Company Inc.
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keyword
- Ballard, Bettina Fashion United States Biography Coco Chanel Vogue, Magazine Editor Paris Schiaparelli Mainbocher Cristobal, Balenciaga Red Cross Christian Dior Designers Christian Berard, Cecil Beaton Scaasi Galanos Biography Fashion
- Binding description
- H Hardcover
- State of preservation
- Good
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
Description
312 pages. "In an entertaining, personal manner, Ballard re-creates the world she moved into as Vogue's editor in Paris in the 1930's. With her, the reader learns about the lives of the women who set the pace for elegance that the great couturiers matched with their creations. Here are the first-hand, behind-the-scenes descriptions of the fascinating ways in which the creations of famous design houses are presented to the public, stories of the adventures involved in fashion editing, the personal histories of famous artists, photographers, mannequins, and best-dressed women on two continents." - from dust jacket (not included). Contents clean and unmarked. Stamp-sized beige mark on front free endpaper where sticker removed. Minor moisture exposure to bottom edge of last few leaves and back fixed endpaper. Includes replica dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound third printing copy of this fascinating historical fashion memoir. Book
Edizione: third printing
ISBN: B001ONH8E8
