$150
SPANIER, Ginette
[233] pp.
Random House
1960
8 1/4" x 5 1/2"
With an Introduction by Noel Coward
Warmly inscribed November 1960 on FFEP
Jenny Yvonne "Ginette" Spanier (7 March 1904 – April 1988) was director of the House of Balmain, a Paris fashion-house, and was decorated for her wartime work.
After the war, the couple lived for many years on Paris' Avenue Maurice, and she became directrice (director) at Balmain from 1947 to 1976. The first of her two volumes of autobiography, It isn't All Mink (1959), had a foreword by Noël Coward, the second volume, And Now It's Sables (1970), had one by Maurice Chevalier.
The sparkling autobiography of a woman of style