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Lot Essay
Charles James était une personnalité unique dans l’histoire de la haute couture américaine. Son audacieuse imagination, ses brillantes coupes et sa maitrise technique ont généré quelques-uns des plus grandioses, extravagants et séduisants vêtements de son époque. Parmi ses clients admiratifs, des figures incontournables des deux côtés de l’Atlantique, comme Anne, la Comtesse de Rosse, la Comtesse Etienne de Beaumont, la Duchesse de Gramont, Marie-Christophe de Menil, Doris Duke, Madame Robert Guggenheim, Madame William Randolph Hearst, jr., et Madame Cornelius (Eleanor) Vanderbilt Whitney.
Voir : Elizabeth Ann Coleman, The Genius of Chales James, The Brooklyn Museum, New York/Holt, Rinehart and Winsont, Ontario, 1982.
Charles James was a unique figure in the story of American couture. His bold imagination, bravura cutting, and technical mastery generated some of the most grandiose, extravagant, and seductive clothes of their era. His admiring clients included many of the most distinguished society figures of the day, on both sides of the Atlantic – among them Anne, Countess of Rosse, Comtesse Etienne de Beaumont, Duchesse de Gramont, Marie-Christophe de Menil, Doris Duke, Mrs Robert Guggenheim, Mrs William Randolph Hearst,Jr, and Mrs Cornelius (Eleanor) Vanderbilt Whitney.
See: Elizabeth Ann Coleman, The Genius of Charles James, The Brooklyn Museum, New York / Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Ontario, 1982
Voir : Elizabeth Ann Coleman, The Genius of Chales James, The Brooklyn Museum, New York/Holt, Rinehart and Winsont, Ontario, 1982.
Charles James was a unique figure in the story of American couture. His bold imagination, bravura cutting, and technical mastery generated some of the most grandiose, extravagant, and seductive clothes of their era. His admiring clients included many of the most distinguished society figures of the day, on both sides of the Atlantic – among them Anne, Countess of Rosse, Comtesse Etienne de Beaumont, Duchesse de Gramont, Marie-Christophe de Menil, Doris Duke, Mrs Robert Guggenheim, Mrs William Randolph Hearst,Jr, and Mrs Cornelius (Eleanor) Vanderbilt Whitney.
See: Elizabeth Ann Coleman, The Genius of Charles James, The Brooklyn Museum, New York / Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Ontario, 1982