Dior, Fashion Memoir + Dior + Balenciaga - 3 db kötet egyben.

1. kötet: Dior (Fashion Memoir): 80 pages, over 50 colour illustrations, chronology, bibliography. Darling of high society, creator of the "New Look", Dior shot to international fame almost overnight at the age of 47. At first his creations provoked angry accusations of unpatriotic extravagance, but women everywhere soon warmed to his hour-glass lines and long, rustling skirts. In this work, Dior's most characteristic designs - dresses and hats, shoes and accessories - are featured, with an outline of his career and his inspired output. 2. kötet: Dior With an ability to blend the outrageous and the elegant, the house of Dior expresses all the magic of fashion. Christian Dior first married the modern and the miraculous by transforming the role of haute couture at a time when it was confined to a privileged minority. A businessman as well as a poet, he made fashion responsible for expressing society's desires and fulfilling the dreams of millions of women. One could say he established the democratic course of fashion. For over fifty years, the name Dior has been synonymous with luxury and taste, and today, it is the genius John Galliano who perpetuates the tradition. 3. kötet: Christian Dior called Cristobal Balenciaga "the master of us all." The priest-like Balenciaga, whose private life remained a total mystery until the day he died, created day dresses of deceiving simplicity and evening gowns of staggering extravagance, and for them he was paid the highest prices in the couture world. His faithful clients were the great fashion plates of the postwar years: the Duchess of Windsor, Gloria Guinness, Pauline de Rothschild, and Mona Bismarck, among others.

Cristobal Balenciaga was born in 1895 in Getaria, in Spain's Basque country, and at the early age of twenty-four he created his own couture house in San Sebastian. He opened in Barcelona in 1933, in Madrid in 1935, and in 1948 on the Avenue Georges V in Paris, where he could serve a more international clientele. Cristobal Balenciaga retired in 1968 and died in reclusion in his native Spain in 1972.

The informative text and legendary photography in this volume beautifully document this master's immeasurably influential life and work.