Miss Dior

Miss Dior
Title Miss Dior PDF eBook
Author Justine Picardie
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 343
Release 2021-11-09
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0374722153

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“Remarkable” —Hamish Bowles, Vogue The overdue restoration of Catherine Dior's extraordinary life, from her brother's muse to Holocaust survivor When the French designer Christian Dior presented his first collection in Paris in 1947, he changed fashion forever. Dior’s “New Look” created a striking, romantic vision of femininity, luxury, and grace, making him—and his last name—famous overnight. One woman informed Dior’s vision more than any other: his sister, Catherine, a Resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, and cultivator of rose gardens who inspired Dior’s most beloved fragrance, Miss Dior. Yet the story of Catherine’s remarkable life—so different from her famous brother’s—has never been told, until now. Drawing on the Dior archives and extensive research, Justine Picardie’s Miss Dior is the long-overdue restoration of Catherine Dior’s life. The siblings’ stories are profoundly intertwined: in Occupied France, as Christian honed his couture skills, Catherine dedicated herself to the Resistance, ultimately being captured by the Gestapo and sent to Ravensbruck, the only Nazi camp solely for women. Seeking to trace Catherine’s story as well as her influence on her brother, Picardie traveled to the significant places of Catherine’s life, including Les Rhumbs, the Dior family villa with its magnificent gardens; the House of Dior in Paris; and La Colle Noire, Christian’s chateâu that he bequeathed to his sister. Inventive and captivating, and shaped by Picardie’s own journey, Miss Dior examines the legacy of Christian Dior, the secrets of postwar France, and the unbreakable bond between two remarkable siblings. Most important, it shines overdue recognition on a previously overlooked life, one that epitomized courage and also embodied the astonishing capacity of the human spirit to remain undimmed, even in the darkest circumstances. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations

Perfume Legends II

Perfume Legends II
Title Perfume Legends II PDF eBook
Author Michael Edwards
Publisher
Pages
Release 2019-09-24
Genre
ISBN 9780980860092

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Perfume Legends

Perfume Legends
Title Perfume Legends PDF eBook
Author Michael Edwards
Publisher Crescent House Pub
Pages 295
Release 1996
Genre Art
ISBN 9780646277943

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Focusing on 45 fragrances, from Guerlain Jicky to Thierry Mugler Angel, this book provides information on the creators, including the perfumers and the couturiers to the bottle designers and the executives of the perfume houses.

Installation and the Moving Image

Installation and the Moving Image
Title Installation and the Moving Image PDF eBook
Author Catherine Elwes
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 323
Release 2015-05-12
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0231850808

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Film and video create an illusory world, a reality elsewhere, and a material presence that both dramatizes and demystifies the magic trick of moving pictures. Beginning in the 1960s, artists have explored filmic and televisual phenomena in the controlled environments of galleries and museums, drawing on multiple antecedents in cinema, television, and the visual arts. This volume traces the lineage of moving-image installation through architecture, painting, sculpture, performance, expanded cinema, film history, and countercultural film and video from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Sound is given due attention, along with the shift from analogue to digital, issues of spectatorship, and the insights of cognitive science. Woven into this genealogy is a discussion of the procedural, political, theoretical, and ideological positions espoused by artists from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Historical constructs such as Peter Gidal's structural materialism, Maya Deren's notion of vertical and horizontal time, and identity politics are reconsidered in a contemporary context and intersect with more recent thinking on representation, subjectivity, and installation art. The book is written by a critic, curator, and practitioner who was a pioneer of British video and feminist art politics in the late 1970s. Elwes writes engagingly of her encounters with works by Anthony McCall, Gillian Wearing, David Hall, and Janet Cardiff, and her narrative is informed by exchanges with other practitioners. While the book addresses the key formal, theoretical, and historical parameters of moving-image installation, it ends with a question: "What's in it for the artist?"

New Trade Names

New Trade Names
Title New Trade Names PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 386
Release 1989
Genre Business names
ISBN

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Brands and Their Companies

Brands and Their Companies
Title Brands and Their Companies PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1580
Release 1994
Genre Brand name products
ISBN

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This is a guide to product trade names, brands, and product names, with addresses of their manufacturers and distributors.

Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar
Title Harper's Bazaar PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1096
Release 1969-07
Genre Celebrities
ISBN

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