Madame Gres: Sphinx of Fashion by Patricia Mears - 2008-03-28

Very Good. Out of Print. Yale University Press, in association with the Fashion Institute of Technology, 2007. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Pages clean, crisp, unmarked. Cover has light wear. Jacket lightly rubbed, with some crimping at head of spine. Shipped boxed with Tracking and Signature Confirmation. Txbk55

New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 2007. Assumed First Edition. Hardcover. New. Hardcover in original shrink-wrap -- new -- with no accidental faults Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994 (selling online since 1998). Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 1st edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition, 2007. Near Fine. 4to., 171 pp., with full color and black & white illustrations. Bound in publishers blue cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Small dent near spine on front dust jacket cover, slight edge wear, interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Madame Grès (30 November 1903- 24 November 1993) born Germaine Émilie Krebs, also known as Alix Barton, was a leading French couturier of her generation and costume designer. She founded the former haute couture fashion house "Grès" as well as the associated perfume house "Parfums Grès" which still exists today in Switzerland. Remembered as the "Sphinx of Fashion", Grès was notoriously secretive about her personal life and was seen as a workaholic with a furious attention to detail, therefore she preferred to let her work do the talking. Called the "master of the wrapped and draped dress" and "queen of drapery",[2]… Read More

E-344: Yale University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT in association with the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. 2008. 171 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. While the classically inspired “Grecian” gown designed by Madame Alix Grès is widely recognized and admired, little else of the brilliant couturier’s life or work has received close attention. This book, by far the most detailed study yet published on this influential fashion designer, carefully analyzes Madame Grès’ innovative construction techniques and connects her designs to the art styles and movements… Read More

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