There’s a nice book about the making of the film The Red Shoes focusing on the costumes by the leader of the 1940s Parisian couture movement, Jacques Fath, whose designs, more than Dior and Balmain at the time, brought a completely contemporary sensibility and shocking elegance to fashion in France but also for the first time to the best American stores. http://theredshoes.info
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There’s a nice book about the making of the film The Red Shoes focusing on the costumes by the leader of the 1940s Parisian couture movement, Jacques Fath, whose designs, more than Dior and Balmain at the time, brought a completely contemporary sensibility and shocking elegance to fashion in France but also for the first time to the best American stores. http://theredshoes.info