First edition of Inventive Paris Clothes 1909-1939 by Irving Penn (1977)

First printing

Medium format hardback in near fine condition. Dust jacket corner is clipped and has sustained creasing (see picture 6). Shelf wear around dust jacket corners and top and around spine. Some age toning to the pages, and some very faint foxing to the top and bottom edges of the cover.

96 pages

Text written by Diana Vreeland

About

Fashion in the three decades from 1909-1939 was radical, beautiful and every changing. In the cultural capital of the world, the new feminine ideals of freedom and movement were expressed in the unprecedented designs of Voinnet, Alix, le Callot, Molyneux, Paquin, Chanel, and Schiaparelli- designs as aesthetically glorious as they were socially significant. Irving Penn's masterful photographs are accompanied by an introduction and captions by Diana Vreeland, who discusses the evolving panorama - the Ballet-Russes in Paris in 1909, the First World War and the entry of women into factories and offices, the Jazz Age, the elegance and the ennui of the 1930s.