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Jacques Fath

Door Jéromine Savignon

Categorie
Mode, Kostuums & Verzorging
Boeknummer
#365513-ZA37
Titel
Jacques Fath
Auteur
Savignon, Jéromine
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York : Assouline
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
2759403912
ISBN13
9782759403912
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blind stamped brown boards, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous (full page) photographs in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Before there was Jean Paul Gaultier, there was Jacques Fath. Known as the enfant terrible of the fashion world in the 1940s and 1950s, Fath injected a sense of levity and joie de vivre into the buttoned-up world of Paris couture. Handsome, charming, youthful, and irreverent, Fath channeled his temperament into his designs. With swooping necklines and sweeping hems, Fath won over such clients as Greta Garbo, Ava Gardner, and Rita Hayworth. The house's famous hats--one featured walnut shells whose contents were consumed by Fath--displayed the same insouciance as the clothes. Although Fath was struck down by leukemia at the age of forty-two, his legacy lives on. Jacques Fath pays homage to this master during his early-fifties peak. AUTHOR: Jéromine Savignon is the author of Cacharel Le... (Lees verder) Liberty (Assouline) and L'Esprit Vionnet (Université de la Mode). ILLUSTRATIONS 60 illustrations
Pagina's
79
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 45,00

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