By Barral
ISBN 2915173273
Courrèges by Erik Orsenna (book)
$1,369.00
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Courrèges (book) by Erik Orsenna. Xavier Barral Editions. Brushed aluminum cover. 224 pages in French and over 100 photos. Like new condition. Please allow 2 weeks for delivery.
Designed and curated by Coqueline Courrèges, this book is a true artist’s piece, employing various printing techniques on multiple media. A limited edition, it will quickly become a collector’s item for lovers of Courrèges’ style. The book presents the couturier’s entire body of work from 1961 onwards, when he opened his own fashion house.
- 1963: Thanks to Courrèges, women discover trousers
- 1965: revolution, the miniskirt shows the legs
- 1967: women have a second skin with tights, an idea by Courrèges.
The photographs are by Henri Lartigue, Helmut Newton, Peter Knapp, William Klein, and Edouard Boubat, who wrote about this exceptional journey in the press. A sensory and visual panorama, the book also presents the couturier’s sketches, as well as his drawings, sculptures, architectural projects, and perfumes.
Passionate about fashion, a great curious person, Erik Orsenna leads us, with small poetic touches, in the footsteps of this engineer, architect, couturier, creator.
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