Lot n° 139
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Nadia Albertini - Rébé, broderies haute couture & Kitmir - Lot 139
Nadia Albertini - Rébé, broderies haute couture & Kitmir, Les broderies russes de Mademoiselle Chanel - 2021-2023 Rébé, broderies haute couture (2021)
René Bégué (1887-1987), was the founder of Rébé, whose embroideries would supply haute couture designers for over half a century. René Bégué was a talented designer and brilliant colorist, driven by a taste for splendor, who learned his trade from Poiret and Paquin. Andrée Pichard, whom René met in the early 1920s and who would become his partner and wife, began her career as a milliner, with an excellent knowledge of fabrics and a particular gift for the uninhibited combination of materials. Together, they formed an exceptional duo that would supply the greatest haute couture houses with dazzling creations. Rébé is a veritable nugget of French haute couture and textile heritage, still unknown to the general public but whose name resonates like a myth among couturiers, more than fifty years after the workshop closed. By studying sketches, samples, photographs and models preserved in private and public archives, author Nadia Albertini traces this fascinating history for us. Her sources include the fashion magazines of the time (Vogue, L'Officiel de la Mode, Harpers' Bazaar, etc.), the archives left by Rébé at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Musée du Pays Rabastinois, and those kept by the houses of Balenciaga, Dior, Fath, Givenchy, Lanvin, Roger Vivier, Swarovski, Yves Saint Laurent... Nadia Albertini is a fashion historian. An embroiderer herself, she works with some of today's leading fashion houses... The research she has been carrying out on Rébé for almost twenty years has also led her to meet nine of the master embroiderer's former collaborators. Their testimonies plunge us into the atmosphere of the métiers d'art workshops of the time, and shed light on the unique methods and techniques in use at the time.
Kitmir: Russian embroidery by Mademoiselle Chanel (2023)
The book tells the story of the Kitmir workshop and the unprecedented collaboration between Gabrielle Chanel and Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, in the creation of an embroidery workshop.
Cousin of Russian Emperor Nicholas II and sister of Grand Duke Dimitri, Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna fled Russia in 1918 with her husband Prince Putyatin, seeking refuge at the Romanian court, before settling in London, where she began her sewing and embroidery activities. But it was in Paris that she settled for good in 1920.
Russian emigrants, who had wielded the needle since childhood, found embroidery a source of income that enabled them to rebuild their lives in Paris.
beautiful ensemble Gourcuff Gradenigo 2021-2023
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