Sarah Tomerlin Lee Editor
André Deutsch, New York, 1976, 1975, English
Nonfiction, Fashion Design
ISBN: 9780233968049

Published for the Fashion Institute of Technology. An illustrated history of “five American fashion geniuses”—Adrian, Mainbocher, Claire McCardell, Norell, and Pauline Trigère.

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Christian Lacroix

This was of one my favorite books in the 1980s, always on my bedside table. I found it in New York in a secondhand bookstore and it was an instant revelation. I knew nothing of American fashion designers in the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s. My only U.S. fashion reference had been costume designer Adrian!

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