Vogue Colors A to Z: A Fashion Coloring Book

Author(s): Valerie Steiker

Colouring / Drawing / Dot-toDot

In this first-ever coloring book from American "Vogue, " you are invited into a world of fashion fantasy. Twenty-six archival magazine covers from 1912 to 1932, by ten celebrated illustrators living here and abroad, take you back to a more playful and whimsical moment of boas, bows, hats and headpieces, fans, pearls and gloves, and even exotic animals. Coloring book fans of all ages can try their hand at the Art Deco patterns and letters from A to Z and the lively drawings of women dressed for the task at hand, whether it is driving their own car, pruning morning glories in the garden, feeding a dragon, steering a gondola, sitting on a crescent moon, perched on a peacock or riding a zebra side-saddle, of course. This is the" Vogue "woman as liberated, stylish, and always dressed for adventure. At the back, don't miss the twenty-six"Vogue "covers in their original colors with lively captions as well as a stunning six-page gatefold of twenty-one glamorous dresses from 1912 1932 to color, tear out, and display."


Product Information

VALERIE STEIKER, the editor of this book, is the culture editor at "Vogue" and the author of "The Leopard Hat: A Daughter's Story" and the editor, with Chris Knutsen, of a collection of essays, "Brooklyn Was Mine." The ten illustrators are: from America, Helen Dryden, Harriet Meserole, Rita Senger, E.M.A Steinmetz, Arthur Gavin Finley, and George Wolfe Plank; from France, Georges Lepape, Pierre Mourgue, Andre Marty; and from Spain, Eduardo Garcia Benito. Most of them were born in the 1880s or '90s; some, even the Americans, studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris; one George Wolfe Plank was self taught; and Arthur Gavin Finley also moonlighted as a magician, called Henry Gavin, credited with the invention of the Tent Vanish Trick."

General Fields

  • : 9780451493828
  • : Knopf Publishing Group
  • : Knopf Publishing Group
  • : 0.454
  • : 31 March 2016
  • : 274mm X 254mm X 10mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Valerie Steiker
  • : Valerie Steiker
  • : illustrations
  • : illustrations
  • : 64
  • : 64
  • : Paperback / softback
  • : Paperback / softback