Ingenue to Icon: 70 Years of Fashion from the Collection of Marjorie Merriweather Post
Author(s): Prof Howard Vincent Kurtz
Marjorie Merriweather Post was one of America's most powerful women, a director of General Foods, Inc., philanthropist, patriot and internationalist, with a keen interest in art, and a magnificent wardrobe collected over 70 years. Ingenue to Icon is a beautifully illustrated new volume dedicated to Mrs Post's love of fashion and how she used
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Howard Vincent Kurtz is the Associate Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the Hillwood Museum & Gardens in Washington D.C, and a Professor of Theater at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in women, biography and social history. She is the author of American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post (1995).
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Nancy Rubin Stuart; Chapter 1: An Age of Innocence and Independence, 1903 - 1919; Chapter 2: Glamorous Parties and All that Jazz, 1920 - 34; Chapter 3: A Sartorial Success at Home and Abroad, 1935 - 54; Chapter 4: A Grande Dame's Last Tango and the End of an Era, 1955 - 73; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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- : D Giles Ltd
- : D Giles Ltd
- : 01 June 2015
- : 279mm X 216mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Prof Howard Vincent Kurtz
- : Hardback
- : 391.009730904
- : 168
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