Staging fashion, 1880-1920 : Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke / Michele Majer, editor ; Lenard R. Berlanstein, Marlis Schweitzer, Sheila Stowell ; with contributions by BGC graduate students, Maude Bass-Krueger, William DeGregorio, Rebecca Perry

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Notes: Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition, Staging Fashion, 1880-1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke, held at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, from January 17, 2012, through April 8, 2012.
Contents: Selected chronology: theater, fashion and culture: France, Great Britain and the United States / compiled by BGC graduate students -- Staging fashion, 1880-1920 / Michele Majer -- Dangerous and influential women: actresses in nineteenth-century French culture / Lenard Berlanstein -- Lucile and the theatricalization of fashion / Sheila Stowell -- Stylish effervescence: Billie Burke and the rise of the fashionable Broadway star / Marlis Schweitzer -- Jane Hading -- Lily Elsie -- Billie Burke

Author: Majer, Michele; Berlanstein, Lenard R; Schweitzer, Marlis; Stowell, Sheila 1954-; Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
Subject: Hading, Jane -1941; Elsie, Lily 1886-1962; Burke, Billie 1885-1970