Fashion Drawings and Illustrations from "Harper's Bazar"
The Russian-born, Paris-based artist Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) is best known for his incomparably styled fashion and theater designs of the 1910s and 1920s. From 1915 to 1936 Erté was associated with Harper's Bazar, furnishing readers with fashion designs, cover art, and word-pictures of the European fashion scenes. This book is a selection of Erté's remarkable work for Harper's Bazar, including 310 of his line drawings and 8 full-color images as well as selections from his letters for the magazine. Of these drawings, 12 have been reproduced directly from the original pen drawings at original size for this edition. |
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... girdle of braided green and silver silks to form the deep , monk - like sleeves . If your modiste is clever , she will slash the bodice and sleeves of your pale gray cloth frock and interlace the strips . Of course all the edges must be ...
... girdle . The hat , too , boasts of a garland of cherries . Over a straight sleeveless slip of black satin , one wears a cape of sheer organdie that has a girdle to slip through an ivory buckle and end in a deep pocket . The tiny round ...
... girdle by long jet strands . For the brunette is a coif- fure entwined in a network of tiny coral beads . Two braids are fastened together in front by a coral tassel . COIFFURES FOR THE BLONDE , THE DARK , AND THE DARING A mauve silk ...