While we are quite used to seeing Paris as backdrop for magazine fashion shoots, we don’t necessarily know that it’s Coco Chanel who initiated the movement.
To bring fashion in the street, she asked the Séeberger brothers, equivalent to Inez & Vinoodh of that era, to photograph les models in the streets of the capital.
This pretty book features 100 photos from an elegant woman posing in front of a wrought iron. balcony in 1900 to Laetitia Casta immortalized by Mario Testino as a vamp in front of a carriage door as well as Dior silhouettes from the 50s in front of the Louvre métro station.
We like: the story of fashion through ultra glamour black and white photos.
Paris Mode 100 photos de légende
Editions Parigramme Broché
128 pages, 14,90 €
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