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Hats by Madame Paulette : Paris milliner extraordinaire /

Madame Paulette was Paris's queen of milliners. Born in 1900, this famed headwear designer learned her trade between the wars, and by the forties and fifties her hats crowned the heads of everyone who was anyone in Paris, and were increasingly sought by the rich and famous around the world. Fil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schneider, Annie (Author)
Other Authors: Jones, Stephen, 1957 May 31-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2014.
Subjects:
La Bruyère, Pauline de, > 1900-1984.
Millinery.
Hats > History.
Women's hats.
Headgear.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1
  • 1. The Early Years
  • 2. Starting Off
  • 3. The 1940s
  • 4. Postwar Celebrity
  • Part 2
  • 5. Famous Fittings
  • 6. America Comes Calling
  • 7. High Society
  • 8. America Again
  • 9. Stage and Screen
  • 10. With Cecil Beaton
  • Part 3
  • 11. By Appointment
  • 12. End of an Era
  • 13. The Couture Houses.