Pierre Balmain. 40 Annees de Creation

[Pierre Balmain]

Catalogue for a retrospective exhibition celebrating the life and work of the French fashion designer Pierre Balmain, held at the Palais Galliera, Paris. The catalogue is extensively illustrated, reproducing many of Balmain's designs, as well as images by the great fashion photographers and illustrators of the day. The text examines his clothes, his life, the models he used and his costumes for stage and screen. There is also a very detailed chronology and a catalogue of his designs for theatre and film.



Texts by Guillaume Garnier & Bruno Villien. Preface by Jacques Chirac. Forewords by Madame Gres and Jean Bergeron. Photographs by Uwe Ommer. Musee de la Mode et du Costume, Palais Galliera. Paris. 1985. First edition. Paperback, quarto; illustrated wrappers. 264 pages. Illustrated throughout with colour and b&w images. French. 320 x 240mm. 1.5kg. . Very good; light shelf and reading wear, slight rubbing to edges, light creasing to spine, slight lean to spine.