| Erté's Fashion Designs Contributor(s): Erté (Author) |
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ISBN: 048624203X ISBN-13: 9780486242033 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1981 Annotation: The premier fashion designer of the 1920s, Erte once designed a costume for Mata Hari and was still designing clothes and costumes more than 60 years later. The 218 illustrations collected here, originally rendered by Erte himself for HARPER'S BAZAAR magazine, reveal why his fashion design has not only returned to popular favor but is being seen in museums and galleries along with his paintings and prints. 218 illustrations. in full color. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Artists' Books - Design | Fashion & Accessories - Antiques & Collectibles | Textiles & Costume |
| Dewey: 746.920 |
| LCCN: 81067396 |
| Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 8.8" W x 11.9" (0.85 lbs) 88 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ert once designed a costume for Mata Hari. Sixty-seven years later, still creating, he designed costumes and sets for the 1980 Glyndebourne Festival's Der Rosenkavalier. In between (mostly in the '20s) he was the only top Paris designer illustrating his own haute couture, most of the illustrations appearing in Harper's Bazar. An earlier volume (Fashion Drawings and Illustrations from "Harper's Bazar" 0-486-23397-9) sampled some of Ert 's enormous contributions to that magazine; this is another collection of original designs from Ert 's triumphant Harper's Bazar period. "He envisioned women," wrote Stella Blum, Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Curator, "not only as ultra-chic creatures for whom money was no object, but also as . . . music hall stars, Assyrian princesses, Egyptian queens. . . . Yet under this veil of fantasy the clothes and accessories Ert created reveal a sound construction that really works." Ert loves elaborate decoration, but hates meaningless ornament; these 218 illustrations show how he integrates all his pockets, pearls, cuffs, fur linings, jeweled tassels, and seamless dresses into thematic unity, and maintains a consistent ideal of fashion, by constant improvisation and inventive wielding of pure line. His firework color sense finds spectacular realization in 8 full-color reproductions of Harper's Bazar covers, all of which are now prized collector's items. In both black-and-white and color work, his sinuous, undulating line and decorative flair never fail, and show why his fashion design has not only returned to popular favor, but is being seen in museums and galleries along with his paintings and prints. Over a career spanning the century, Ert has expressed his versatility in many forms; in these exquisite, delicate, theatrical miniatures (which will delight any lover of fashion history and graphics) he gives the very best of himself. |