Ingenue to Icon: 70 Years of Fashion from the Collection of Marjorie Merriweather Post - Hardcover

Prof Howard Vincent Kurtz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1907804404 ISBN 13: 9781907804403

Publisher: D Giles Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Marjorie Merriweather Post was one of America's most powerful women, a director of General Foods, Inc., philanthropist, patriot and internationalist, with a keen interest in art, and a magnificent wardrobe collected over 70 years. Ingenue to Icon is a beautifully illustrated new volume dedicated to Mrs Post's love of fashion and how she used it to create her unique style: the luxurious, embroidered dresses, exquisite shoes dyed to match her gowns, and fabulous jewels that defined her style, offer glimpses into a life of exceptional elegance and wealth.

Mrs Post worked closely with fashion designers across Europe and the United States to create her distinctly elegant appearance over the course of her adult life. More than just a catalog of her wonderful evening gowns, Ingenue to Icon illustrates a spectacular collection of costume, combining numerous images of accessories shoes, hats, handbags, fans and parasols, and related portraits and photographs of Mrs Post wearing them with a wealth of printed ephemera and personal letters, to put them in context. Four chronological chapters chart the progression of Mrs Post s development into an icon of elegance during a century of huge change in fashion.

Accompanies a major exhibition Ingenue to Icon: 70 Years of Fashion from the Collection of Marjorie Merriweather Post, June 2, 2015 January 17, 2016, Hillwood Museum & Gardens, Washington, DC.

About this title

Review:

Kurtz has written a delightful cultural biography and...the photographs of the gowns are extraordinarily beautiful. --Amy Henderson, Artes Magazine

Ingenue to Icon is a historical work with a focus on one woman s life as told through her sartorial choices explained in an engaging narrative. --Jeffrey Felner, New York Journal of Books

A must-have volume for those interested in fashion and social history or indeed in Mrs Post herself. --Tim Forrest

About the Author:

Howard Vincent Kurtz is the Associate Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the Hillwood Museum & Gardens in Washington D.C, and a Professor of Theater at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.

Nancy Rubin StuartAmerican Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post (1995).

About this edition

• Publisher: D Giles Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1907804404
• ISBN 13: 9781907804403
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Trish Donnally