Search Results: Fashion from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

[HUBERT DE GIVENCHY; FASHION ILLUSTRATION/STAT; HAUTE COUTURE] HUBERT DE GIVENCHY (1927-2018), 3 stamped black-and-white fashion stats/copies of original fashion designs 8-1/2" x 11" with fabric swatches (4 total since two are numbered 19 with different pattern for the same basic dress with fabric swatch stapled to one of these), each of the fashion stats also has handwritten notes on fabrics and prices stapled to them by a Givenchy employee named Jackie to the noted philanthropist Mrs. Albert D. Lasker (see Provenance below), samplings from the notes, "Grey woolen coat, white stripes…Price: 19.800 F[rancs], Detaxed 14, 226 F.[presumably for purchase in France without export customs]…Black velvet and organge [sic, for orange?] dress…153A the same dress but in plane [sic] blue…57.500F…without the embroidery…48.000 F."…plus there is a copy of an August 6, 1982, handwritten letter from Jackie to "Dear Mrs. Lasker" reading in part, "Thank you for your cable…I did my very best to send you… Read More