Product Details
Product Code: 185177821.
Charles James - Designer in Detail
by Timothy A. Long
Victoria & Albert Museum 2015
Meticolous attention for details, highly innovative design for this couturier who dressed some of the most famous icons of the 50s, like Marlene Dietrich, Austine Hearst, Gypsy Rose Lee. Charles James was loudly the first time American Fashion Designer. In this book we can discover his amazing cutting methods, his most beautiful drawings. His archival material are analyzed in detail by Timothy A. Long. Page by page it has the feeling of touching these clothes' clean, geometric cuts and asymmetrical dancing with the body, make in evidence the female figure like the 'spiral dress cocktail dress' of 1952.
Pages: 160
21,3 x 27,9 cm - 8.4" x 11"