Mainbocher sketchbook collection, 1940-1970.

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Mainbocher sketchbook collection, 1940-1970.

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The collection consists of 66 sketchbooks with drawings (some watercolor) for dresses designed by Mainbocher. The drawings, many of which are watercolors by the American illustrator, Douglas Pollard, are a significant record of American fashion in this century. Numbering some 6,000 in all, the collection contains a drawing of every costume Mainbocher designed for every one of his American collections - two collections a year for thirty years. Attached to each drawing is a swatch of the fabric of the garment represented.

66 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 29-44 cm.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Pollard, Douglas C., 1925-2009

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Mainbocher, Inc.

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Mainbocher is the only native American couturier to have achieved an equal footing with the Paris couturiers on their own ground and among his clients were some of the most important and fashionable women in the world. He was born in Chicago in 1891, worked as a couturier first in Paris from 1930 and then in New York from 1940 to 1971. From the description of Mainbocher sketchbook collection, 1940-1970. (Metropolitan Museum of Art). WorldCat record id: 701466473 ...

Mainbocher, 1891-1976

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