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(FASHION.) LOUIS FÉRAUD. (Attributed to.)
Archive of 1960s Mod fashion sketches from the Paris Studio.Together, 39 fashion designs on
paper and 6 accessory designs on smaller tracing paper. Pen and felt-tip marker on paper.The
larger drawings 400x279 mm; 15
3
/
4
x11 inches. The smaller group, 267x216 mm; 10
1
/
2
x8
1
/
4
inches. Bound with a metal ring; scattered edgewear, 5 drawings with long closed tears repaired
with tape on verso. Nd, circa 1960s. Provenance: Acquired in the 1960s by a fur trader who
was visiting Féraud’s Paris studio to collaborate on a line of fur mini skirts.
[2,000/3,000]
Féraud (1921-1999) opened his first “Maison de Couture” in Cannes in the 1950s with his wife.The
location allowed him to rapidly gain access to an elite patronage of movie clients visiting for the Film Festival.
His first major rise to fame came after Brigitte Bardot attended an event in one of Féraud’s dresses.The
following week, his shop sold 500 dresses. Following his success, he relocated to Paris and produced both
ready-to-wear and haute couture lines.There, he and his wife became known as “the Gypsies”— creators
of the wildly colorful gypsy-inspired aesthetic that came to define 1960s Parisian fashion.
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(FASHION.)
4 Women in Shirtwaists and Skirts. Turn-
of-the-century catalogue illustration for
fashionable women’s clothing. Ink, wash,
and pencil on board, heightened in white.
502x432 mm; 19
3
/
4
x17 inches. Pinholes in
margins, areas of dampstaining and age-
toning, 1x1
1
/
2
-inch portion excised by
artist, likely to change placement of text.
Framed. Nd.
[250/350]
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