My Years and Seasons, Pierre Balmain Signed
[Signed by Pierre Balmain] Balmain, Pierre. My Years and Seasons. First Edition. 1964. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition—jacket shows a tiny tear, and spine is slightly discolored. Book is signed in elegant script on the flyleaf, “With best wishes, Pierre Balmain.”
Alongside Christian Dior, who epitomized the reaction to World War II austerity with his “New Look,” Pierre Balmain, was one of the couturiers that reestablished Paris as the fashion capital of the world following the German occupation. Launching his own label in 1945, he created a sensation not only from his designs but from the ruckus created when an Airedale he was using in his fashion show attacked Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas’s poodle. This memoir, as sleek and sophisticated as a dress by Balmain, recounts all of that and much more.
“I have never in all my career encouraged anyone to make disproportionate purchases.”
--Pierre Balmain