Pierre Balmain. My Years and Seasons

Pierre Balmain. Translated by Edward Lanchbery, with Gordon Young.

Cassell. London. 1964. First edition. Hardback; red cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. xxii, 182 pages. 40 hors-texte plates with b&w photographs. English. 220 x 150mm. 0.5kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear and dustiness to jacket and edges, not price-clipped.

The autobiography of the French fashion designer Pierre Balmain (1914-1982). The memoir covers Balmain's upbringing, his first forays into fashion, his time at Lelong with Christian Dior, the establishment and successes of the Balmain couture house and his life outside of the business.