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NEW HARDCOVER TIFFANY IN FASHION BY JOHN LORING
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From Publishers Weekly:
A century's worth of jewels are photographed on such
enchanting models as Sofia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor and Brooke Shields in this
sparkling display of 20th-century American glamour. The design director of
Tiffany & Co., Loring has authored several previous works featuring the
company's jewels. In this latest volume, he traces the evolution of Tiffany's
signature style through its illustrious jewelry designers. The lineup ranges
from Louis Comfort Tiffany, whose 1930s jewelry had Art Deco flair, to the more
modern looks of Elsa Peretti and Paloma Picasso. (One especially impressive
image shows the jeweled buttons that Tiffany artisan Jean Schlumberger crafted
for the famed surrealist fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli; the buttons were so
beautifully constructed that their purpose was completely obscured.) The book's
occasionally grainy photographs feature the work of Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts,
Horst and even Man Ray. But the most arresting photo comes from John Rawlings,
whose image of a bejeweled model holding a placard with the words "Christmas
1940" appeared on the cover of Vogue. Its luxury is poignantly unconscious of
the drab war years ahead. Most readers will find the important details about
each photo ill-placed at the back of the book; back-and-forth flipping is
necessary to determine where a photo was first published, who its fashion
designer was, etc. Still, "The American Look," a breezy essay on the history of
fashion by the recently deceased Eleanor Lambert, is in itself almost worth the
price of admission. In it, the tremendously influential fashion maven reflects
upon jewelry's transformation from a point of wealth to a point of style.
Tiffany's jewels have always been among America's foremost objects of desire,
and Loring's retrospective reveals why they have dominated fashion on the runway
and beyond.
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Product Description
Fashion experts credit Coco Chanel and her "little black
dress" of 1924 with bringing fashion into modern times. A mere three years later
came the advent of fashion photography, led by photographers such as Edward
Steichen, Horst, and Cecil Beaton, and fashion editors like Carmel Snow and
Diana Vreeland. Jewelry, long a symbol of wealth, took on an added role as the
ultimate fashion accessory, with Tiffany designer Jean Schlumberger leading the
way. This fascinating, lavishly illustrated book surveys the parallel growth of
fashion photography, from Steichen to Avedon, and fashion jewelry, begun by
Schlumberger and continued by his successors at Tiffany, including Elsa Peretti
and Paloma Picasso, to become the celebrity-studded industry it is today.
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Product Details-Out of Print
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (November 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0810946378
ISBN-13: 978-0810946378
Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.3 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds
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