Vintage 1930's LANVIN PARIS DESIGNER Fashion Plate Sketch ART DECO DRESS GOWN
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Vintage 1930's Lanvin Designer Fas hion Plate Up for auction is this Rare Vintage JEANNE LANVIN Designer Fashion Sketch done for Spurdle Studio in the early 1930's! The sketch was done in black ink & signed GCT by artist Gertrude Chartres Titus Thompkins some time in the early 1930's for Spurdle Studio at Croton-on-Hudson in New York & Imported by Maginnis & Thomas of New York (a large fashion house who had a huge influence on 20's fashion). The sketch pays meticulous attention to every detail of the GORGEOUS couture styled Afternoon Dress! The fashion plate is a Jeanne Lanvin design and it is number 20 of a series done for Maginnis & Thomas. The description states: Heavy white crepe afternoon dress with royal blue satin and white crepe three-quarter Bishop sleeves. Bias white crepe sash held in center front with blue satin covered buckle. Spurdle Studio was a firm that produced books of "after designs," with sketches of Paris models annotated by indications of colors, fabrics, and trims. The sketchers would commit models from the Paris showings to memory and then draw them afterward, and were on commission by wholesale houses in the U.S. or elsewhere in Europe. The sketches from the Paris showings were often used by both custom and ready-made houses as "inspirations" for their own lines, which could translate as anything from line-for-line
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