Charles James - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Charles James write by Michele Gerber Klein. This book was released on 2018-03-20. Charles James available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired by the discovery of long-overlooked interviews conducted just before his death, this is the first biography of the visionary fashion designer Charles James. Christian Dior described him as the inspiration for the “New Look.” Salvador Dalí called his work “soft sculpture,” and Virginia Woolf exclaimed, “He is a genius.” As George Bernard Shaw tells us, only unreasonable men change the world. This portrait of the life and times of Charles James—winner of two Coty awards, and the subject of a 2014 Metropolitan Museum of Art show—draws on the glamour of Europe in the 1930s, and the dazzle of New York City from the ’40s through the ’70s as it travels with James from his birth to privilege in England in 1906 and follows his career through his complex and turbulent relationships with exceptional women such as Elsa Schiaparelli and Eleanor Lambert, ending with his penurious death in New York’s fabled Chelsea Hotel. As engrossing as a novel, as dramatic as grand opera, James’s story will provoke, rivet, and inspire.
Charles James
Charles James - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Charles James write by Harold Koda. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Charles James available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This catalogue offers the first comprehensive study of James’s life and work, highlighting his virtuosity and inventiveness as well as the colorful cast of benefactors and clients who supported him.
The Couture Secrets of Shape
The Couture Secrets of Shape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Couture Secrets of Shape write by Charles James. This book was released on 2019-01-30. The Couture Secrets of Shape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Avant-garde designs from "America's First Couturier" British-American designer Charles James (1906-78), "America's First Couturier," is famed for the extraordinarily elegant evening gowns he created in the 1930s through the 1950s for society ladies on both sides of the Atlantic. From the beginning of his career, James also designed revolutionary unisex styles. The famous eiderdown evening jacket, designed in 1937 for women, was revived as a cult unisex design object in 1970s New York. The eiderdown jacket and James' other unisex designs share with his ball gowns a sculptural, architectural presence and a rigorously cerebral design process grounded in science and mathematics. James is regarded as a visionary thinker in the world of fashion, introducing lasting innovations in both technique and methodology. Charles James: The Couture Secrets of Shapegoes beyond the evening gowns, focusing on some of James' unisex designs and his life in the artist community at the Chelsea Hotel, where he lived from 1964 until his death in 1978. He remained restlessly creative in this period, his rooms at the Chelsea serving as a studio, workshop, and archive. In 1973 he wrote The Charles James Approach to Structural Design; this allowed a glimpse into his thinking at that time and is included in this publication in facsimile. Edited by Homer Layne, James' last assistant, and Professor Dorothea Mink, with a preface by fashion designer Rick Owens, this volume reveals a new facet of James' groundbreaking body of work.
The Genius of Charles James
The Genius of Charles James - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Genius of Charles James write by Elizabeth A. Coleman. This book was released on 1982. The Genius of Charles James available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Millennial Hospitality Ii
Millennial Hospitality Ii - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Millennial Hospitality Ii write by Charles James Hall. This book was released on 2003-01-14. Millennial Hospitality Ii available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Millennial Hospitality II is an etiquette book for the 21 Century. It suggests how we might interact with aliens and answers many questions the readers had after reading Millennial Hospitality.
