Maison Lesage

Patrick Mauriès is a writer and publisher of many notable titles on fashion and design, including Jewelry by Chanel, A Cabinet of Rarities, The World According to Karl and Fashion Quotes to name a few, all published by Thames & Hudson.

• 1. Providers of excellence • 2. The birth of luxury • 3. A stroke of luck • 4. Handover 5. Bias cut • 6. Mainteuses and Lunévilleuses • 7. Marie-Louise • 8. A house is born 9. A change of address • 10. Schiaparelli • 11. Acrobats and butterflies • 12. The unexpected • 13. Survival • 14. Embroidery, trimmings and textiles • 15. François 16. American adventures • 17. Return to Paris • 18. Asparagus and flowers • 19. Old and new regime • 20. Six hundred hours • 21. When fashion is in fashion • 22. 29 and 92 • 23. A passage to India • 24. A long friendship • 25. Changes

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