Collectors Book of Fashion

by Frances Kennett and Judith Straeten

PURCHASED BUT NEVER READ. DUST JACKET HAS SCUFF & SMALL TEARS ON SPINE EDGE. & BACK. CLEAN INSIDE. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517548607
• ISBN13: 9780517548608
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 11.90 lbs.

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Kennett's Secrets of the Couturiers feeds the soul with photos of beautiful fashions, then feeds the mind with descriptions of how to replicate many of the details that designers made famous. The book examines the careers of Worth, Poiret, Vionnet, Schiaparelli, Chanel, Dior, Balenciaga, McCardell, Courreges, Cardin, St. Laurent, and Valentino. Working on the bias, pockets and buttonholes, linings, rouleau, pockets, hems, fine fabrics and flowers are some of the secrets that are explained.