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Sunday, March 1, 2009

Great Advertising Series: Chanel No 5 Perfume with Estelle Warren





...with JP Goude involvement.


Great Advertising Series: Revlon's Most Unforgettable Women













British Vogue Cover Archive


British Vogue Cover Archive

British Vogue celebrated their 90th anniversary last year with a cover displaying their covers through the years.
You can view some of the covers on-line; select by year, model, photo/artist or editor.
"Vogue Covers" book was also published to celebrate their anniversary. Each cover has a full page. The book is available at Amazon.com:

Balenciaga and His Legacy By Myra Walker


Balenciaga and His Legacy By Myra Walker, Meadows Museum, Texas Fashion Collection


Preview of book:

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=oFBZg1C2REIC&dq=Texas+Fashion+Collection+By+Myra+Walker&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=xhzkYKbiSn&sig=C89m0CODEvKOxhgmNmTLP3SuE2w&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPP1,M1

Born in 1895 in a remote fishing village in Spain, Cristóbal Balenciaga learned sewing and tailoring at his mother’s knee. By 1937, the talented and persistent young man had opened his own design salon in Paris, and in the years following World War II he emerged as a designer to be reckoned with in the world of haute couture. The House of Balenciaga grew to serve an international clientele from locations in Paris, Madrid, and Barcelona, and from 1937 to its closing in 1968 created some of the most outstanding and innovative examples of French and Spanish haute couture of the era.
This beautifully illustrated book presents nearly 70 Balenciaga creations for day and evening, along with 25 hats, from the extraordinary archives of the Texas Fashion Collection of the University of North Texas. The book also includes striking fashion photographs from Vogue magazine and Harper’s Bazaar by Richard Avedon and Louise Dahl-Wolfe. A series of essays explores many aspects of the designer’s work, among them his contributions to fashion history; connections with such other prominent designers as Hubert de Givenchy and Oscar de la Renta; important relationships with Neiman Marcus and fashion buyer Bert de Winter in Dallas; and his close friend and client Claudia Heard de Osborne.


More details
Balenciaga and His Legacy: Haute Couture from the Texas Fashion Collection
By Myra Walker, Meadows Museum, Texas Fashion Collection
Edition: illustrated
Published by Yale University Press, 2006
ISBN 0300121539, 9780300121537
162 pages
The book is available at Amazon.com:

Antonio Lopez - Valentino Illustrations

Italian Vogue September 1973 - Illustrations for Valentino by Antonio Lopez