Claire McCardell by Kohle Yohannan & Nancy Nolf & Valerie Steele

Redefining Modernism

A biography of Claire McCardell, pioneering designer of American sportswear, whose "comfort first" ideology fostered pride in American fashion. McCardell is pictured in her own clothes, and photographs of her garments from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology reveal her craftsmanship. This is a biography of fashion designer Claire McCardell (1905-1958), the pioneering creator of American sportswear, the wearable, useful and affordable alternative to Paris fashion. The authors show how McCardell's "comfort first" ideology fostered pride and belief in American fashion, and how she favoured self wrap-and-tie styles rather than corsetry, shoulder pads, and heavy construction. In this illustrated tribute McCardell is pictured wearing her own clothes, and specially commissioned photographs of McCardell garments from the archives of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology reveal her craftmanship.
`Author(s) :` Kohle Yohannan & Valerie Steele	`Format :` Hardback Book
`ISBN-10 :` 0810943751	`ISBN-13 :` 9780810943759
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Product Details:

Country Publication : United States

Publication Date : 01/09/1998

Publisher : Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Page Length : 152mm

Page Size : 297mm