Harold Koda is curator in charge and Jan Glier Reeder is consulting curator, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, both at The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"[A] magisterial monograph."—Laura Jacobs, Wall Street Journal
"The . . . catalog, Charles James: Beyond Fashion, is as sumptuous
as [James'] work."—Chicago Tribune
"This luscious volume took me into another world—a world where
gowns are architecture and gossamer and dreams and drop-dead sexy
all at once."—Library Journal
"This definitive, richly illustrated tome, compiled with the
scholarly detail by Koda, the Curator in Charge of the Costume
Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, celebrates the summer
exhibition of the same name at the Met. From rare archives
featuring a young James, to his rising stardom captured by Matisse
and praised by Dali, and his triumphant, structural creations –
this book, a fitting tribute to an iconoclastic genius, is a
treasure in itself. This is one of Glass’s books of the
year."—Glass Magazine
"This gloriously illustrated book restores [James] to his rightful
pedestal. Not for nothing is he dubbed the poet laureate of
American fashion. Ravish your eyes."—Sebastian Shakespeare,
Tatler
"A must for any fashionista’s coffee table."—The Oldie
"Harold Koda’s detailed examination of James’s creative oeuvre
proves and reveals the designer’s true genius. . . . This book is
beautiful. The printed canvas cleverly opens to endpapers printed
with James’s canvas toilet. The photographs are bold and alluring —
Cecil Beaton’s fashion-styled interiors, illustrations from Vogue,
and the many original garments are a delight to see. But the real
merit in this book is the sheer breadth of the source material and
the depth of the examination. As the author’s intended, James’s
status as a true artist cannot be doubted here. . . . Even the most
unyielding reader will be unable to resist its appeal."—Deirdre
Murphy, COS
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