[Elizabeth Hawes. Alexey Brodovitch]
A challenging critique of the fashion industry by the American fashion designer Elizabeth Hawes. In Fashion is Spinach , published in 1938, Hawes protests against the dominance of the French couturiers and the fashion rules that came from across the Atlantic. She champions the rights of women to wear the clothes they wish to wear and which suit their lifestyles. It is a choice of style over fashion. Hawes' book struck a chord and it helped to promote ready-to-wear and home-grown American talent. Scarce with the dust jacket present.
Elizabeth Hawes. Decorations by Alexey Brodovitch. Random House. New York. 1938. First edition, first printing. Hardback, octavo; black cloth-bound boards with white title and decoration, dust jacket. x, 337 pages. Graphic jacket, endpapers and text decorations by Alexey Brodovitch. English. 215 x 150mm. 0.65kg. . Very good, in fair dust jacket; wear and tear to jacket, with some areas of loss, repaired in places with tape, rear flap detached but neatly reattached, not price-clipped; slight wear to boards and pages, no inscriptions.
