Beauty In Exile: The Artists, Models And Nobility Who Fled The Russian Revolution And Influenced The World Of Fashion; Author: Vasil'Ev, Aleksandr; Author: Translator Bouis, Antonina W.; Hardback; Book

Author: Vasil'Ev, Aleksandr; Author: Translator Bouis, Antonina W.
Hardback; Book; 840 B&w Illustrations
480 pages
Published: November 2000
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
ISBN: 0810957019

Glamorous and intriguing, packed with hundreds of incomparable pictures and marvelous anecdotes about some of the flamboyant personalities of the first half of the 20th century, this stylish volume illuminates as never before the pivotal Russian influence on 20th-century European and American culture and fashion.Alexandre Vassiliev, a well-known Russian-born costume and set designer,gives an insider's account of the artists and aristocrats who fled Russia after the 1917 Revolution and went on to play key roles in the European fashion scene. Wonderful stories abound about such noted emigres as Serge Diaghilev and Anna Pavlova, fashion illustrator Erte, photographer George Hoyningen-Huene, and couturier Prince Felix Yusupov, better known as Rasputin's assassin. With its wealthAn insider's account of the artists and aristocrats who fled Russia after the 1917 Revolution and went on to play key roles in the European fashion scene. An insider's account of the artists and aristocrats who fled Russia after the 1917 Revolution and went on to play key roles in the European fashion scene.An account of the artists and aristocrats who fled Russia after the Revolution and went on to play roles in European and American culture and fashion. The book includes documentary source material and photographs of film stars like Greta Garbo wearing couture designed by Russian emigres.