"Madeleine Vionnet" 1998 KIRKE, Betty (SOLD) Plates

"Madeleine Vionnet" 1998 KIRKE, Betty (SOLD) PlatesKIRKE, Betty MIYAKE, Issey [foreword by] [244] pp. Chronicle Books 1998 14 3 4" x 10 3 4" Fine Fine Scroll Down for (11) Additional Scans: Madeleine Vionnet (June 22, 1876, Loiret, France March 2, 1975) was a French fashion designer. Vionnet trained in London before returning to France to establish her first fashion house in Paris in 1912. Although it was forced to close in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War, it re opened after the war and

Photograph by Patrick Lichfield

and includes detailed descriptions of each fish species

and stables are all signature elements of an equestrian-based style that is aspired to across the country

w/ over 1000 colour illustrations

its place in society and its role in time of war

and the only known copy in private hands of the rare larger paper printing

1986 to her daughter 'Eliza' (1942-2008)

Scarf Sz: 12 1/2"H x 12 1/4"W

Oil on canvas depicting a dapper piglet clutching a tennis racquet signed (Bobby) Livingston (famous Broadway producer) (LR)

& [205] pp

Excellent/ Unused Condition

This sale followed on from Lewis’s solo auction in 2007 at Christie’s