Beauty in exile : the artists, models, and nobility who fled the Russian Revolution and influenced the world of fashion
"Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility Who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion tells the story of this well-bred crowd who, suddenly stripped of their cloaks of privilege, discovered that for the first time in their life they would have to work for a living. Naturally, many turned to what they knew best - fashion and beauty." "From the fashion house of Irfe, founded by the dapper Prince Felix Yusupov (who, as one of Rasputin's assassins back in St. Petersburg, enjoyed great notoriety in Paris) and his wife Princess Irina Romanova; to the Hitrovo House of Lingerie, founded by Olga Hitrovo, who was descended from one of the oldest noble families in Russia; to the stunning Princess Mary Eristova and the "society model" Gali Bajenova, who were the favorites at Chanel: Russian high society turned their beauty and discriminating tastes into successful trades, distinctively shaping Western fashion of the twentieth century." "Capturing the atmosphere of the period with more than 800 black-and-white illustrations, Beauty in Exile offers page after page of never-before-published archival photographs, stylishly illustrated advertisements for the new Russian fashion houses, designers' sketches, and fashion shots by famous photographers such as George Hoyningen-Huene depicting Rita Hayworth, Greta Garbo, and Marlene Dietrich sporting Russian couture."--Jacket
collective biographies
480 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
9780810957015, 0810957019
43894409
The Ballets Russes and Russian fashion
Russian fashion during World War I and the great exodus
Russian Constantinople
Russian Berlin
Russian Harbin
Russian emigre handicrafts
The Kitmir House of Embroidery
The emergence of Russian fashion and fashion houses in Paris
The Paul Caret House of Fashion
The TAO House of Fashion
Yteb House of Fashion
The Fashion House of Irfe
The Bery House of Fashion
Ardanse House of Fashion
The Valentina House of Fashion
The Hitrovo House of Lingerie
The Adlerberg House of Lingerie
The Laure Belin House of Lingerie
Russian emigre fashion illustrators and fabric designers
Russian beauties of the 1920s
Russian beauties of the 1930s and 1940s