Name/Title
Designs by Erté : fashion drawings and illustrations from "Harper's Bazar"Entry/Object ID
TT505.E73.B58Description
The Russian-born, Paris-based artist Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) is best known for his incomparably styled fashion and theater designs of the 1910s and 1920s. From 1915 to 1936 Erté was associated with Harper's Bazar, furnishing readers with fashion designs, cover art, and word-pictures of the European fashion scenes. This book is a selection of Erté's remarkable work for Harper's Bazar, including 310 of his line drawings and 8 full-color images as well as selections from his letters for the magazine. Of these drawings, 12 have been reproduced directly from the original pen drawings at original size for this edition.In the illustrations, Erté shows gowns, coats, pajamas, hats, and accessories of all sorts and for each season. Tassels, fur muffs, capes, hair stylings, and other extravagant flourishes are second nature to Erté in these designs. The drawings themselves are striking evocations of the "temptress" type of feminine allure, and are works of art in their own right whose exotic styles are inseparable from the style of the fashions they depict. The original Harper's captions have been reprinted with each illustration.Collection
Carol Westfall CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
costume design--paris, fashion design--paris, fashion designers--parisBook Details
Author
Erté, Stella BlumPublisher
DoverDate Published
1976Call No.
TT505.E73.B58ISBN
486233979, 9780486233970LCCN
76024054Notes
Length: 129