Elegance

Modern fashion photography was born when three brothers, Parisian postcard photographers, shifted their lenses to the upper echelon of French society in the early twentieth century. As impromptu portraits of beautiful women in inimitable finery at racecourses, resorts, and cafés began to appear in magazines, courant designers such as Chanel, Hermès, and Madeleine Vionnet rushed to send their models to posh watering holes to be photographed with the beau monde.

ISBN 9780811859424 | E | HB