Charles James - Beyond Fashion

Informationen zum Autor Harold Koda is curator in charge and Jan Glier Reeder is consulting curator, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, both at The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Klappentext Charles James, often considered to be America's first couturier, was renowned in the 1940s and 1950s as a master at sculpting fabric for the female form and creating fashions that defined mid-century glamour. This study of James' life and work highlights his virtuosity and inventiveness as well as his influence on subsequent fashion designers. Zusammenfassung "His work went beyond fashion and was a fine art." -a Charles James patron

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• Authors: Harold Koda, Harold Reeder Koda, Koda Harold, Jan Giler Reeder, Jan Glier Reeder, Ralph Rucci
• Assisted by: Rucci Ralph (Foreword)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2014
• EAN: 9780300204360
• ISBN: 978-0-300-20436-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 260 mm x 341 mm x 37 mm
• Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fashion Studies; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art (Ha; Metropolitan Museum of Art Series; Metropolitan Museum of Art (MAA) (YUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; ART / History / General, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, DESIGN / Textile & Costume, History of Art, History of fashion, Fashion and textile design, Individual designers, Individual designers or design groups, DESIGN / Individual Designers