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The Battle of Versailles - The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History (Paperback)
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The Battle of Versailles - The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History (Paperback)
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On November 28, 1973, the world's social elite gathered at the
Palace of Versailles for an international fashion show. By the time
the curtain came down on the evening's spectacle, history had been
made and the industry had been forever transformed. This is that
story. At the Battle of Versailles, five Americans - Oscar de la
Renta, Bill Blass, Anne Klein, Halston, and Stephen Burrows - faced
off against the five French designers considered the best in the
world - Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, Pierre Cardin,
Emanuel Ungaro, and Marc Bohan of Christian Dior. Against all odds,
the American energy and the domination by their fearless models
(ten of whom, in a ground-breaking move, were African-American)
sent the audience reeling. By the end of the evening, the Americans
had transformed their place on the world stage and sowed the seeds
for changing the way race, gender, sexuality, and economics would
be treated in fashion for decades to come. The in-fighting between
ego-inflated designers, the unforeseen obstacles instaging the show
on a shoestring, the triumphant win, the vastly different fates of
the designers post-show. Robin Givhan's meticulous research brings
the event alive and places it firmly in the history of fashion,
offering an intimate examination of a single moment that teaches us
how the culture of fashion as we now know it came to be.
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