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Thea Porter's Scrapbook (Hardcover)
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Thea Porter's Scrapbook (Hardcover)
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Starting in 1966, Thea Porter designed clothes for the rich and
famous for nearly two decades. Her creations were made from
sumptuous fabrics that drew inspiration from the Middle East,
combining richly patterned silks with antique fabrics. Her clothes
were a must for music and film stars such as Pink Floyd, Crystal
Gayle, Elizabeth Taylor, and Barbra Streisand. Porter soon became a
key member of an innovative group of British designers that
included Ossie Clark, Zandra Rhodes, and Jean Muir, and her place
in the history of British fashion was ensured when she was named
Designer of the Year in 1972. Thea Porter's scrapbook is her story
in her own words, an unpublished autobiography she put together
before her death in 2000. Edited by her daughter Venetia, and with
an essay by fashion historian Amy de la Haye, it reveals Porter's
further talents as a keenly observant and descriptive writer. This
book which includes working drawings, sketches, snapshots, and
manuscript notes, serves as a memoir of her early life and career,
charting many memorable episodes, including the dramatic surge of
American interest in her clothes, and the opening of her shop in
Paris as she pursued her ambition to create dresses "beyond trend
and tat, that thirty years from today will still be beautiful."
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