The Magicians of Parisian Fashion

Before you is a unique textbook on the history of fashion. Annie Latour made a significant contribution to the realm of High Parisian fashion, the secrets of which she reveals in this book. The recognizable style of the renowned Parisian couturiers developed, in the author's opinion, under the spell of Paris's enchanting charm, thanks to the heritage of great artistic and technical traditions of France. Latour begins the story with Marie Antoinette and her "minister of fashion" Rose Bertin. Throughout the years following the French Revolution, each period had its own fashion magicians, among them - Louis Hippolyte Leroi, the tailor who dressed Josephine; an entire dynasty of Borts; Jacques Doucet; revolutionary Paul Poiret; and finally, those closer to the author in time - Lucien Lelong, Madeleine Vionnet, Maggy Rouff, Jeanne Lanvin, Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, Hubert de Givenchy, and others.