GORDON CONWAY Fashioning a New Woman SIGNED BY AUTHOR

GORDON CONWAY
Fashioning A New Woman

SIGNED BY RAYE VIRGINIA ALLEN

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Gordon Conway became an illustrator for Vanity Fair at the age of twenty and an accomplished fashion artist.  She went on to an illustrious  career in design that including publicity campaigns for Broadway musicals, costume and set designs for cabaret in Paris and the management of the first autonomous costumer department at a major British film studio.   

This book profiles a woman who helped to create the New Woman--Gordon Conway.  Raye Virginia Allen follows the whole course of Conway's life (1894-1956) from her Dallas upbringing in a wealthy society family through her working years in New York, London, and Paris to her premature retirement and early death at the family estate in Virginia.

This comprehensive book contains hundreds of photographs and illustrations (both black-and-white and color) of Conway, her work, fashion plates, movie stills, cover work, costume designs and more.

Now out-of-print, this rare book is hard to find.

Book measures 11 x 10 1/4 inches and is in very good condition.  Tight binding, crisp and clean pages, minimal wear. Inside title page has been DATED (May 15, 2004) SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RAYE VIRGNIA McCREARY ALLEN, "To Patricia, I hope you enjoy this true story of a Texas-born woman artist of the Jazz Age e- All the Best, Raye Virginia McCreary Allen".

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