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  • Dior by Dior.

    DIOR Christian.
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    First U.K. edition, translated by Antonia Fraser; 8vo ( 225 x 150 mm); various black & white photographic illustrations; publisher's maroon cl...

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  • Six. Sixth Sense. No. 4.

    [COMME DES GARÇONS].
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    The fourth issue of Rei Kawakubo's Six magazine (1988-1991). Contributors to this issue are Robert Frank, Arthur Elgort, Josef Koudelka, Saul Leit...

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  • Moments Preserved.

    PENN, Irving.
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    Moments Preserved provides an overview of Penn's early career, which began in earnest in 1943 when Vogue art director Alexander Liberman hired him...

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  • Men Without Ties.

    [FASHION]. VERSACE, Gianni.
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    Signed by Versace. With illustrations by photographers / artists, including Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts and Brice Weber.First US edition, signed in ...

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  • Le Goût du Jour.

    LABOUREUR, Jean-Emile; BONFILS, Robert; BRISSAUD, Pierre; et al.
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    Art Deco style personified. A fine and rare complete set of one of the most beautiful fashion magazines to appear in France after the Great War; wi...

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  • King of Fashion;

    POIRET, Paul; GUEST, Stephen Haden (translator).
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    The first English-language edition of Paul Poiret's autobiography, with a striking black and gold binding. Poiret wrote his autobiography after hi...

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  • [Costume design for Clorinda, from Rossini's La Cenerentola.]

    MESSEL, Oliver.
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    Oliver Messel (1904-1978) was 'Great Britain's leading theatre designer from the early 1930s to the mid 1950s..., [winning] international acclaim ...

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  • Mail order catalogues

    BIBA
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    Biba only produced six mail order catalogues and they rarely appear on the market. The unusual shape was so that they would go through letter boxe...

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  • Almanach...

    BOUTET, Henri.
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    A great run of this neat French almanac published under the aegis of French engraver & illustrator Henri Boutet, nicknamed 'little master of c...

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  • A Group of Six Lithographs from Le Bonheur du Jour.

    BARBIER, George.
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    The plates for Le Bonheur du Jour wee amongst the largest and most carefully meditated of Barbier's designs. So ambitious was this album that it t...

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  • Ballet Slippers.

    GREIG, T[homas] Watson.
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    Scarce first edition. 'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have b...

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  • A Silk Mule

    GREIG, T[homas] Watson.
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    Scarce first edition. 'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have b...

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  • A Group of Six Ladies' Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century.

    GREIG, T[homas] Watson.
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    'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have been most carefully sel...

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  • A Group of Six Ladies' Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century.

    GREIG, T[homas] Watson.
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    Scarce first edition. 'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have b...

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  • A Group of Four Ladies' Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century.

    GREIG, T[homas] Watson.
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    Scarce first edition. 'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have b...

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  • Costumes de Rome et de Naples.

    RUSPI, Ercole.
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    A Fine album of watercolours of Rome and Naples each signed by Ruspi.Ruspi trained at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome where he was active in the...

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  • Gazette du Bon Ton.

    BARBIER, George; VOGEL, Lucien (editor).
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    The greatest and the rarest of all the Art Deco fashion periodicals. The early 20th century was a time of dramatic change in fashion. The heavy clo...

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