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Norman Hartnell - The Biography (Hardcover)
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Norman Hartnell - The Biography (Hardcover)
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A Daily Mail Book of the Week. The first fully comprehensive
biography of Norman Hartnell, largely drawing on Hartnell's
forgotten rediscovered archive and private sources: the portrait of
the often troubled life of the Queen s dress designer, who sprang
from unlikely origins to dazzle Royalty, aristocracy, Society and
international stars. Norman Hartnell's talents and designs were
celebrated worldwide; he twice changed the silhouette of women's
fashions when such things were the essence of high fashion.
Decorated by the French Government in 1938 and created a Knight
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order by The Queen in Jubilee Year
1977, Hartnell's status as Britain's leading twentieth-century
dress designer was augmented by his unique position as holder of
Royal Warrants as Dressmaker to three Queens of England assuring
that his name was constantly in the public eye. Yet, behind the
facade of a glittering public existence, Hartnell suffered
privately from his necessarily hidden gay lifestyle, which
eventually led to a mixture of personal misjudgements and
remarkable management crises that often plunged his House to the
brink of financial ruin. Michael Pick's engaging biography not only
charts the great successes, but also the unexpected vicissitudes of
Hartnell's life, drawing on a variety of hitherto unpublished
sources. It investigates the designer's humble beginnings as the
aspirational son of London publicans and his meteoric rise from
1923 as a uniquely British couturier rivalling Paris designers and
becoming an acknowledged inspiration to friends Pierre Balmain and
Christian Dior.
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