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Title

Beauty in exile : the artists, models, and nobility who fled the Russian Revolution and influenced the world of fashion / by Alexandre Vassiliev ; translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis and Anya Kucharev.

Author

Vasilʹev, Aleksandr, 1958-

Publication

New York : Harry N. Abrams, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

480 pages : illustrations; 32 cm

Summary

• "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.
• "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."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Krasota v izgnanii. English

Alternative Title

Krasota v izgnanii.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Fashion designers > Russia (Federation) > Biography
• Russians > Foreign countries > Biography
• Russians > Foreign countries > History > 20th century
• Fashion design > Russia (Federation) > History > 20th century
• Fashion design
• Fashion designers
• Russians > Foreign countries
• Emigranten
• Mode
• Fotografie
• Russia (Federation)

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 472-474) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0810957019
• 9780810957015

LCCN

00038973

OCLC

• ocm43894409
• 43894409
• SCSB-14102330

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries