raino

getting interested in WW2 must be some kind of hormonal ageing thing, as well as hairs growing in ears etc. Previously it just was not of interest to me, and now, at 40... suddenly I find many aspects fascinating. Related to the haute couture fashion espionage I sidetracked into how haute couture survived the war. So many books and movies made about world war II and none, as far as I've been able to find out, about Lucien Lelong, the president of the Chambre syndicate de la haute couture, who managed to turn the head of Hitler about moving haute couture to Berlin. Or the group of 150 American fashion buyers who in January 1940 took a sea voyage to Genova and then an unheated 24 hours special train to Paris (in that exceptionally cold January!) to see the latest fashion collections.

I'm going to buy this book as a reward when I get the workshops related to my thesis organised: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/paris-fashion-and-world-war-two-9781350000261/