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Title High style : masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum CostumeCollection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Jan GlierReeder.
Author Reeder , Jan Glier , author
Detail 256 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 28 cm
Abstract This book represents the collection's strengths, High Style presents Brooklyn's masterworks and provides brief histories of how they were collected. Included are historical costumes from the 1760s to the 1890s; sumptuous gowns by Charles Frederick Worth; custom designs by the important French nineteenth-century couture houses; examples from the early twentieth-century houses, including those of Lanvin, Chanel, and Poiret; iconic Surrealist-based designs by Schiaparelli; the incomparable sculpted ball gowns of James of the 1940s and 1950s
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