Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:08:45 -0800
From: Bill Jones <wsjones-AT-basingstoke.org>
Subject: Re: PUPT: puppets and fashion: Theatre de la Mode


>There was a fashion show of dolls in miniature theatre sets by Jean Cocteau
>and Christian Berard among others right after WW II. It was displayed at the
>Metropolitan Museum of Art around 1990. The Parisian fashion industry lacked
>funds and time to make a human fshow according to the exhibition text.
>Check it out.
>Nancy

Theatre de la Mode is in residence at the Maryhill Museum in Washington.
http://www.maryhillmuseum.org/collect.htm

and the book has been re-issued.

Bill


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