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Maison Lesage: Haute Couture Embroidery
Contributor(s): Mauriès, Patrick (Author)
ISBN: 0500021538     ISBN-13: 9780500021538
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
OUR PRICE:   $63.00  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: March 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Design | Fashion & Accessories
- Design | Textile & Costume
- Photography | Subjects & Themes - Fashion
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 8.6" W x 11.2" (2.70 lbs) 224 pages
 
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The most prestigious Parisian Haute Couture artisans, Maison Lesage has collaborated with the biggest names in fashion, from Chanel, Schiaparelli, and Yves Saint Laurent, to Cristobal Balenciaga, Valentino, and Alexander McQueen. Founded in 1924, when the Lesage family bought the eminent firm of Michonet (then a supplier to such fashion legends as the House of Worth), Maison Lesage has created exceptional embroidery motifs--often requiring hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of precise beadwork--for star fashion designers for decades.

Perhaps best known today for the masterpieces it creates for Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel collections, the house was bought by Chanel in 2002 as part of its Paraffection group to ensure the survival of the house's unique history and extraordinary skills.

Illustrated with specially commissioned photography of the house's historic creations and illuminated with texts by Patrick Mauries, who has written extensively on Chanel, Maison Lesage is both a tribute to exceptional craftsmanship and a journey through more than one hundred years of fashion at its most sumptuous and inventive. This book will be coveted by anyone interested in luxury fashion.


Contributor Bio(s): Mauries, Patrick: - Patrick Mauriees is a Paris-based writer of many notable titles on fashion and design. Among his previous books are Maison Goossens: Haute Couture Jewelry, Jewelry by Chanel, The World According to Karl, and Androgyne.