
In My Fashion: The Autobiography of Bettina Ballard, Fashion Editor of Vogue
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In My Fashion: The Autobiography of Bettina Ballard, Fashion Editor of Vogue
About this book
Bettina Ballard, Paris-based correspondent and later Fashion Editor for US Vogue, was at the centre of the fashion world from the 1930s to the '50s and an intimate of Coco Chanel, Cristóbal Balenciaga and Elsa Schiaparelli. With journalistic flair, she captures the spirit of pre-war Paris, the working methods of the fashion greats and the transformation of the post-war fashion industry with the arrival of Dior.
First published in 1960, this book is part of the V&A Fashion Perspectives Series. Selected by V&A publishing in consultation with our world-leading fashion curators, the Fashion Perspectives series offers an access all areas pass to the glamorous world of fashion. Models, magazine editors and the designers themselves take readers behind the scenes at the likes of Balenciaga, Balmain, Chanel, Dior, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue in the golden age of couture.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. On Being in Vogue
- 2. A Neophyte in Paris
- 3. Artists, Models, and Photographers
- 4. The Sorceress – ‘Coco’ Chanel
- 5. Schiaparelli, Mainbocher, and Other Designers
- 6. The Women Who Make Fashion
- 7. From the Riviera to Regent’s Park
- 8. The Secret World of Cristóbal Balenciaga
- 9. The Realm of the Gifted and Tormented
- 10. A Time for Frivolity
- 11. The War Descends
- 12. Living in Fashion in New York
- 13. Off to the Red Cross
- 14. Life Overseas
- 15. The Rebirth of Paris
- 16. Editing at Vogue
- 17. An Intimate Portrait of Christian Dior
- 18. The New Style Centres: Italy, Spain, Ireland
- 19. The Mechanics of Fashion
- 20. The American Role in World Design
- 21. An Epitaph to Elegance