Helena Modjeska - Icon of Style: From Distance to Temptation / Helena Modrzejewska - ikona stylu: Od dystansu do pokusy

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Oversized paperback, fully bilingual (English & Polish), copiously illustrated (many full-page images of beautiful dresses), glossy paper, 139 pages, NOT ex-library. No ISBN. Weight: 706g / 1.56lb. Likely unread, book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, tightly bound. Covers show minor shelfwear. -- A catalogue of the exhibition held at The Wilanow Palace Museum, The Old Theatre Museum and the San Juan Capistrano Historical Society from June through November 2013. -- The Wilanow Palace Museum, over the years, has been supporting students of painting and clothes design. One of the programs run by the Museum, concerning a reconstruction of historical outfits, culminates in an annual contest. Within the framework of Wilanow for Young Talents, tailoring trainees use various assets of the world of fashion, analyse available historical outfits and their iconography for the purpose of designing new patterns. The second edition of the program was dedicated to the remarkable figure of Helena Modjeska and, through her, to the fashions of the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. -- Contents: Foreword by Pawel Jaskanis; Wilanow for Young Talents; From Distance to Temptation; Helena Modjeska's Costumes in the Light of Fashion of Her Age [Humble Beginnings; French Dresses and French Plays; Shakespeare; An Icon of Good Taste]; Modjeska's New Image; Jury & Laureates of the Contest; Young Talents: Reconstructions; Lingerie: 1860 - 1910; Young Talents: Inspirations; Helena Modjeska and Leopold Kronenberg: Passion and Determination. N° de ref. del artículo 007755

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