[French Fashion]
The visual story of the famous post-war French fashion exhibition, the Theatre de la Mode, published to coincide with the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1991. In 1945 the French couture houses were struggling to survive. The Theatre de la Mode exhibition was staged and toured Europe and the USA with an aim to announce to the world that the French fashion industry was alive and kicking. Because of shortages and for ease of transport the mannequins for the clothes were doll-sized, approximately 27.5 inches high with wire bodies. The dolls were dressed in miniature couture outfits by 41 Paris designers. The dolls were thought lost but in the 1980s were rediscovered in the Maryhill Museum of Art. The exhibition at the MET retells the story with essays, a catalogue raisonné and new photographs of the mannequins by David Seidner. In the more desirable hardback edition.
Edited by Susan Train with Eugene Clarence Braun-Munk. Texts by Edmonde Charles-Roux, Herbert R. Lottman, Stanley Garfinkel, Nadine Gase, Katell le Bourhis. Photographs by David Seidner. Rizzoli in cooperation with The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. 1991. First Edition. English-language edition. Hardback, quarto; black cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 192 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome. English. 315 x 235mm. 1.5kg. 9780847813407. Near fine, in near fine dust jacket.
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