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The beautiful fall, fashion, genius, and glorious excess in 1970's Paris, Alicia Drake

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The beautiful fall, fashion, genius, and glorious excess in 1970's Paris, Alicia Drake
Language
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Main title
The beautiful fall
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811130647
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Alicia Drake
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fashion, genius, and glorious excess in 1970's Paris
Summary
In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry, intrigue, and searing ambition. At the center of it all were fashion's most beloved luminaries-- Yves Saint Laurent, the reclusive enfant terrible, and Karl Lagerfeld, the flamboyant freelancer with a talent for reinvention-- and they divided Paris into two fabulous halves. Their enduring rivalry is chronicled in this dazzling exposé of an era: of social ambitions, shared obsessions, and the mesmerizing quest for beauty
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