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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vasilʹev, Aleksandr, 1958-

Standardized Title:

Krasota v izgnanii. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Fashion designers--Russia (Federation)--Biography.

Fashion designers.

Russians--Foreign countries--Biography.

Russians.

Russians--Foreign countries.

Costume design.

History.

Russia (Federation).

Russians--Foreign countries--History--20th century.

Costume design--Russia (Federation)--History--20th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

480 pages : illustrations, music ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

Summary:

Glamorous and intriguing, packed with hundreds of incomparable pictures and marvelous anecdotes about some of the flamboyant personalities of the first half of the 20th century, this stylish volume illuminates as never before the pivotal Russian influence on 20th-century European and American culture and fashion.

Alexandre Vassiliev, a well-known Russian-born costume and set designer, gives an insider's account of the artists and aristocrats who fled Russia after the 1917 Revolution and went on to play key roles in the European fashion scene. Wonderful stories abound about such noted emigres as Serge Diaghilev and Anna Pavlova, fashion illustrator Erte, photographer George Hoyningen-Huene, and couturier Prince Felix Yusupov, better known as Rasputin's assassin. With its wealth of documentary source material and photographs of stars from Greta Garbo to Marlene Dietrich wearing couture designed by Russian emigres, this exotic fashion book will have broad appeal.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0810957019

OCLC:

43894409