Madeleine Vionnet

Betty Kirke, Harumi Tokai

Tokyo

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Kyuryudo Art Publishing

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1998

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Reprint.

36cm x 26.5cm. 244 pages, illustrations, some colour. Lettered wrappers, pictorial jacket. Text is in Japanese.

French fashion designer Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975), was one of Europe’s greatest couturiers, famous for pioneering many innovations of the ‘bias-cut’ technique. Includes photographs by Irving Penn, Robert Freson, Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, Andre Durst, and Horst P. Horst. Text is primarily in Japanese with some English and French translation, including prefaces by Issey Miyake and Jacques Griffe.

Minor chipping to jacket crown. Near Fine Condition.