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MAUREEN FOOTER's upcoming biography of Buddy Bradley, a star of the Harlem Renaissance who reshaped dance on international stages (Feel the Floor: Restoring the Life and Legacy of Jazz Choreographer Buddy Bradley, Beacon Press) appears on May 12, 2026.

Previous books include George Stacey and the Creation of American Chic (Rizzoli), a chronicle of the evolution of American style; Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy and the New Look (Vendome), a study of the interrelationship of haute couture and interior design ; Dior: Designer of Dreams (Rizzoli) , tracing Dior's conquest of post-war America; and Dior: The Legendary 30, avenue Montaigne (Rizzoli), an examination of the influence of architecture on fashion.

Her work have been reviewed in the Financial Times, Forbes, the Times Literary Supplement, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, and Vanity Fair. She sits of the boards of New York City Ballet and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library, the preeminent dance research institution in the world

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