Scaasi : American couturier
- Title
- Scaasi : American couturier / Pamela A. Parmal, with contributions by William DeGregorio.
- Published by
- Boston : Museum of Fine Arts Boston ; New York, N.Y. : D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, 2010.
- Author
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- Description
- 147 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports.; 30 cm.
- Summary
- "What these women have in common is that they have all been dressed by Scaasi. From his meteoric rise on Seventh Avenue in the late 1950s through his heyday in the boom decade of the 1980s, Arnold Scaasi has remained one of the most distinctive and successful designers in American fashion. With his signature combination of elegance, flamboyance, surprising colors and fabrics, and finely honed craftsmanship, Scaasi is both a bold American original and a couturier (custom designer) in the grand European tradition. Scaasi: American Couturier presents the best of Scaasi's fashions in a handsomely packaged, fluidly organized volume. Alongside sumptuous portraits of more than three dozen outfits, the book features numerous period photographs; sketches, notes, and clippings from Scaasi's personal archives, most of them never before published; and interviews with Scaasi's famous clients, conducted specifically for this book. A feast for fashion watchers and design aficionados alike, American Couturier contains all the glamour and thrill that for decades have been synonymous with the Scaasi label."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Contents
- The Early Years -- Couture and Custom Design -- Charles James -- "Body By Fisher" -- Arlene Francis -- Dressmaker Casuals -- The Scaasi Label -- Diana Vreeland -- Mamie Eisenhower -- Fall 1961 -- Serena Russell Balfour -- Arnold Scaasi, American Couturier -- Central Park South -- Mrs. Joseph Norban's Wardrobe -- Barbra Streisand -- Fur -- Reminiscence: Diahann Carroll -- Louise Nevelson -- Me and My Scaasi -- Mrs. John A. Morris -- The Fabrics -- Reminiscence: Joan Rivers -- Reminiscence: Mary Tyler Moore -- Barbara Bush -- Society Weddings.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Note
- Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and held Sept. 26, 2010-June 19, 2011.
- "The acquisition of the Arnold Scaasi collection and archive by the Museum of Fine Arts is a milestone in the Museum's collecting of twentieth-century fashion."--P. 8.