"Vogue's First Reader" 1942 (INSCRIBED to Eleanor Lambert) (SOLD)

"Vogue's First Reader" 1942 (INSCRIBED to Eleanor Lambert) (SOLD)Almost Everyone of Importance on Almost Everything of Importance! CROWNINSHIELD, Frank [Introduction by] Association copy inscribed: to Eleanor Lambert from Edna Woolman Chase Eleanor Lambert, a pioneering publicist, effectively shifted the fashion establishment away from the absolute dominance of long time Vogue Editor in Chief Edna Woolman Chase. While Chase firmly looked to Paris for sartorial authority, Lambert championed American designers,

Almost Everyone of Importance on Almost Everything of Importance!

CROWNINSHIELD, Frank [Introduction by]

Association copy inscribed: to Eleanor Lambert from Edna Woolman Chase

Eleanor Lambert, a pioneering publicist, effectively shifted the fashion establishment away from the absolute dominance of long-time Vogue Editor-in-Chief Edna Woolman Chase. While Chase firmly looked to Paris for sartorial authority, Lambert championed American designers, ultimately cementing New York as an equal global fashion capital.

Historical Tension

Edna Woolman Chase: As the legendary editor of Vogue from 1914 to 1952, Chase championed French haute couture and long believed American fashion was merely a derivative, secondary industry. Eleanor Lambert: Recognizing the isolation of American designers during World War II, Lambert launched Press Week (the precursor to New York Fashion Week) in 1943. This forced American journalists, who previously relied on Chase's Vogue for Parisian trends, to look directly at U.S. talent

[557] pp.

Julian Messner, Incorporated

1942

11" x 9"

VG

An anthology of essays that first appeared in Vogue Magazine

Contributors include Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Thomas Wolfe, and others.

"All of these pieces were originally published in "Vogue." None of them has ever appeared in any other anthology." Contents: "Conversational kleptomania / G.B. Stein; Rather late for Christmas / Mary Ellen Chase; A prologue to America / Thomas Wolfe; My life is an open book / Clifton Fadiman; Home to Truro / Robert Nathan; The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming / Ernest Hemingway; The world within us / Andre Maurois; The weather of our soul / Irwin Edman; Four painters / Hendrik Willem Van Loon; You're on the air now / Ilka Chase; Souvenir / Ludwig Bemelmans; Brooklyn is my neighborhood / Carson McCullers; Happy Land / Katherine Anne Porter; The China you don't know / Helena Kuo; The old town / William Saroyan; The Mrs. Astor I remember / Frank Crowninshield; Churchill's favourite aunt / Oliver St. John Gogarty; Dinner with Turbot / Ford Madox Ford; Landscape, with figures / Frederic Prokosch; Nehru of India / Krishnalal Shridharani; The passing of the blops / M.F. Agha; I remember Christmas in Holland / Pierre Van Paassen; I remember Christmas in Austria / Leo Lania; I remember Christmas in France / Andre Maurois; I remember Christmas in Belgium / Robert Goffin; Humour, the bomb-proof kind / Virginia Cowles; "We have with us this evening ." / Frank Crowninshield; They're human after all / Katharine Brush; Chungking's broadway / Clare Boothe; Ten answers on Japan / Wilfrid Fleisher; This never got into my column / Major George Fielding Eliot; But where is Picasso? / Andre Gery; I love you, I love you, I love you / Ludwig Bemelmans; Something to remember you by / Sylvia Thompson; I like the circus / Paul Gallico; Embroidery / Ivy Low; The impossible glory / Rebecca West; The scars of London / Cecil Beaton; Gertrude Stein in France / Therese Bonney; Here we stand / Mary Ellen Chase; Five pretty little fables / William Saroyan; Chile can amore / Ludwig Bemelmans; Me and the French / Margaret Case Harriman; Murder in the music-room / Samuel Chotzinoff; Art and camouflage / Elliot Paul; Off stage noises / Aline Bernstein; "Sarah Bernhardt left them kneeling" / Laurette Taylor; File No.113 / Robert Simon; Do men like witty women? / Stephen Leacock; Clare Boothe, in a velvet glove / Allene Talmey; Now at last a house of my own / Katherine Anne Porter; Dry Tortugas / Archibald MacLeish; Red mountain / Irwin Edman; Southern exposure / Ralph McGill; "Waiter, bring me anything" / Edward R. Bosley, Junior; A wit with a whim of iron / Frank Crowninshield; "Fanny you fool!" / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; The lady is an engineer / Patricia Strauss; I saw the Moscow blitz / Margaret Bourke-White; The wine-diver / V. Shishkov; Now, twenty centuries later / James Hilton; The voice of Africa / Stuart Cloete; "There was no more sea" / Mary Ellen Chase; Bucks county auction / Josephine Herbst; Perennial immortality / Lee Simonson; No bed of roses / Isabel Paterson; Orson, the wizard, Welles / J.P McEvoy; Anything for a laugh / Max Eastman; Thanks to Casey Jones / John Mason Brown; Decor and the morons / Ilka Chase; American women . so pretty / Jules Romains; Fashions in painting / Frank Crowninshield; Renaissance profiles / Leo Lerman; No trouble at all / Ludwig Bemelmans; The infant gourmet / Sheila Hibben; etc."