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“When I saw Diana Vreeland’s show for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The 10s, 20s, 30s, I felt a thrill I had not as a fashion photographer known before. A luxurious clothes-world had once existed (and not so long ago at that), apparently without concern for cost, where it seemed no material was too expensive to use, no amount of labor too dear to employ, no designer’s fantasy too extravagant to realize” –Irving Penn. |
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Inventive Paris Clothes 1909-1939. With text by Diana Vreeland. Foreword
by Irvin Penn. New York: The Viking Press, 1977. Quarto, original cloth;
original dust jacket. $1000. First edition, signed and inscribed by Irving Penn, and illustrated with reproductions of Penn's elegant photographs. A lovely copy of a marvelous collaboration by Penn and Vreeland. Very slight toning, generally fine. |