Jean Patou: A Fashionable Life by Emmanuelle Polle toronto Laure Albin Guillot

Laure Albin Guillot

She kept some paintings he gave her in a six-quart basket she'd leave with the neighbours on her rare trips out of town

Since the introduction of the first mezzotint print in 1642

This compelling and eye-catching publication surveys lingerie from the mid-18th century to the present

As tough and unyielding as the sport itself and as aggressive and strategic as a general at war

Jean Patou: A Fashionable Life by Emmanuelle Polle toronto Laure Albin GuillotPhotographs by Francis Hammond. folio. pp. 279. profusely illustrated in colour & b w. index. bds. dw. [Paris]: Flammarion, [2013]. An illustrated monograph of haute couture designer Jean Patous life and career during the apex of twentieth century glamour, drawn from previously unpublished family archives. During the 1920s and 1930s, the French couturier Jean Patou was Chanels main rival: day pajamas, jersey sportswear, swimwear, and the little black