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| In the beginning: between Europe and America-- Art and invention: Elsa Schiaparelli -- Fairy tales for the future: Anne, Countess of Rosse -- Setting up shop: Elizabeth Arden -- Immortality: Millicent Rogers -- Beyond fashion: Modess, Andy Warhol, and Dominique de Menil -- Apotheosis: Austine Hearst -- Nemesis: Eleanor Lambert -- The last muse: Nancy James -- After all |
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| "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 |
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