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Benito PEACE DOVE Jean Pages BEMELMENS Chanel BALENCIAGA Vanderbilt GOLF Vogue

Name: Benito PEACE DOVE Jean Pages BEMELMENS Chanel BALENCIAGA Vanderbilt GOLF Vogue
Brand: BALENCIAGA
SKU: 201212_1632.CR2
Price: 243.75 GBP
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Vintage issue of the British edition of Vogue, dated March 22nd 1939.

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY RARE PRE-WWII ISSUE of VOGUE MAGAZINE.

Cover by the great fashion illustrator García / Eduardo Benito, of a dove of peace bird holding a sign while flying towards France with a message from Britain on the eve of World War Two. Image is painted from a perspective near the Place Vendome in Paris.

Contents -

Paris Collections report

Photos of the KING & QUEEN in France with French President Albert Lebrun and his wife.

FRENCH COUTURIER BIOGRAPHIES

Teach your daughter dressmaking

ANN TALBOT

Portrait of Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (Gwladys Crosby Hopkins) by Simon Elwes. Beautiful colour painting, full page.

FITNESS feature

Women GOLF players and what to wear playing the game

HOSTESSES

Fashions for LIMITED INCOME

Incredible sketches of life in Paris and Parisian scenes by LUDWIG BEMELMENS

SHOE TREE feature on the latest shoes

Colours of Paris with realistic fabric SWATCHES drawn/photographed in

Photography by - Arik Nepo, John Rawlings,

Clothes by - Balenciaga, Chanel, EVA LUTYENS, House of Worth, Molyneux, PAQUIN, SCHIAPARELLI, STEIBEL, Susan Small, etc

Illustrations by - BENITO, CARL ERICKSON, JEAN PAGES

Styles of clothes / fabrics - BLOOMERS, BONING, corsetry, BRODERIE ANGLAISE, BUSTLE, CHECK, COATS, EVENING DRESS, hoods, DINNER DRESS, DINNER SUITS, KNITWEAR, organza and a gipsy themed fashion edit.

Advertising plates - ELIZABETH ARDEN, Tweed perfume by Lentheric, Worth, Paquin

Editor - ELIZABETH PENROSE

Excellent condition. The hole at the top right of the magazine is part of the design - originally a supplement magazine would have been attached with a piece of string. The photograph you see is the actual copy you will receive.

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