Jean Patou: A Fashionable Life by Emmanuelle Polle toronto New York: Vintage International

New York: Vintage International

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Jean Patou: A Fashionable Life by Emmanuelle Polle toronto New York: Vintage InternationalPhotographs by Francis Hammond. folio. pp. 279. profusely illustrated in colour & b w. index. bds. dw. [Paris]: Flammarion, [2013]. An illustrated monograph of haute couture designer Jean Patous life and career during the apex of twentieth century glamour, drawn from previously unpublished family archives. During the 1920s and 1930s, the French couturier Jean Patou was Chanels main rival: day pajamas, jersey sportswear, swimwear, and the little black