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Genre/Form: | Biography Patterns Biographies History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kirke, Betty, 1924- Madeleine Vionnet. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1998 (OCoLC)742346987 |
Named Person: | Madeleine Vionnet; Madeleine Vionnet; Madeleine Vionnet |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Betty Kirke |
ISBN: | 0811819973 9780811819978 |
OCLC Number: | 39533723 |
Notes: | Originally published: Tokyo : Kyuryudo Art Pub. Co., 1991. |
Description: | 244 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 38 cm |
Responsibility: | Betty Kirke ; foreword by Issye Miyake. |
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Abstract:
Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975) was the greatest dressmaker in the world, considered a genius for her innovations with difficult bias cut designs. Vionnet dressed the movie stars of the 1930s and invented new pattern-making techniques. This definitive study of an astonishing woman and her work contains 38 original patterns for Vionnet dresses. Over 400 illustrations.
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- Vionnet, Madeleine.
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