Jean Patou: A Fashionable Life by Emmanuelle Polle cocktails whose life offers one of

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Jean Patou: A Fashionable Life by Emmanuelle Polle cocktails whose life offers one ofPhotographs 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haute couture designer Jean Patous life and career during the apex of twentieth century glamour, drawn from previously unpublished family archives.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