Paul Poiret: Inventing Modern Luxury

A New Look at Paul Poiret: Tastemaker, Innovator, and Father of the Luxury Industry

A well-illustrated study of this extraordinary man through several different aspects of his life – his self-mythologising, his deep involvement in the arts, his unparalleled gift for publicity, his manipulation of celebrity and, of course, his creativity, all immensely detailed and with the context given as much attention as the protagonist.— Anne De Courcy, The Spectator