{"product_id":"elizabeth-hawes-radical-american-fashion-hardcover","title":"Elizabeth Hawes: Radical American Fashion - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCynthia Amnéus\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis brand-new publication explores the life and career of one of America's most experimental and forward-looking twentieth-century fashion designers, Elizabeth Hawes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The World, showing what American designers could do, . . . has enabled me to help decide what you will wear today--and tomorrow!\"\u003c\/b\u003e--Elizabeth Hawes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Hawes opened her couture salon in New York City in 1928. Working through the 1930s she not only created elegant clothing but wrote several books including her best seller \u003ci\u003eFashion is Spinach\u003c\/i\u003e in 1938. She was a marketing trailblazer, a union activist during WWII, and anticipated fashion trends that would not become a reality until the 1960s and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new publication, and accompanying exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum, highlights Hawes's work, her influences, and her role in promoting a new generation of female designers like Claire McCardell, Bonnie Cashin, and Vera Maxwell. The authors look variously at Hawes' importance and influence on future female designers, her life, the women she dressed, her menswear and ready-to-wear lines, her work in the context of other American designers, her choice of colors, fabrics and construction techniques, and her politics, illustrated throughout with color plates of pieces, ensembles and accoutrements, plus additional archival materials, including working sketches, information on her politics and prolific writing output.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cincinnati Art Museum's fashion collection includes over thirty examples of her work, most of which were worn by one of her most devoted clients, Cincinnati socialite Dorette Kruse Fleischmann.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCynthia Amnéus\u003c\/b\u003e is curator of Fashion Arts and Textiles for the Cincinnati Art Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Evitts Dickinson\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning writer whose work encompasses cultural criticism, narrative nonfiction, investigative journalism, short fiction, and memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine Hill McIntyre\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant conservator at Caring for Textiles with over twenty five years of experience in major museums, historic houses, archives, and private clothing collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Mears\u003c\/b\u003e is deputy director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Sadtler Huckstep\u003c\/b\u003e is a masters graduate of Bard Graduate Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr Jennie Woodard\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 11.2 x 9.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 16, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49547262492824,"sku":"9781917273053","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/kaCTL2fpsq9781917273053.webp?v=1784838103","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobooks.myshopify.com\/products\/elizabeth-hawes-radical-american-fashion-hardcover","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}