The authority of France's great fashion designers has long resided not only in their glamorous creations but in their oft-cited diktats.
Before World War II, that tyranny was as absolute in New York, the center of the American garment trade, as it was in Paris.
Little did it matter to garment executives stateside that, as MacDonell observes, women who ordered their wardrobes from haute couture houses led completely different lives.
MacDonell's engaging new book... freed American women from the tyranny of haute Gallic style.
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