Oldřich Rosenbaum / Oldric Royce: A life in fashion from Prague to New York

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Oldřich Rosenbaum / Oldric Royce: A life in fashion from Prague to New York

Original language description

The monograph of the Prague tailor, couturier, and fashion designer Oldřich (Ulrich) Rosenbaum (1896–1991), who in more than seventy years developed an elegant and always highly modern style of clothing for wealthy clients in Czechoslovakia and then in the United States, including the history of his exclusive fashion houses in Prague, Karlsbad and New York City. The study traces the development of the tailoring firm from its founding by Elisabeth Rosenbaum in 1881, to its boom during the interwar Czechoslovak Republic, its fall after the German occupation beginning in March 1939 and Nazi “Aryanization” in the early 1940s to its nationalization following the Communist takeover in 1948, and afterwards. Discussing the lives of Rosenbaum’s family members, colleagues, and clients, the book provides a vivid picture of the Czech-Jewish-German milieu of interwar Prague. The professional activities of Oldric Royce – as Oldřich Rosenbaum called himself after moving to the United States in 1939 – culminated in the founding and operation of a highly successful fashion house in New York City, which earned him professional recognition. His clientele were included some of the richest American women, politicians’ wives, including First Ladies, and well-known actresses like Ginger Rogers and Marlene Diettrich. The book was written on the basis of archive research, interviews with eye-witnesses, period newspapers and magazines, and research in the costume collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and the Hillwood Museum & Gardens in Washington, D.C. To add to the picture of Rosenbaum’s life and work the volume includes more than 180 plates, including photos of actual dresses, kindly provided by the Hillwood Museum & Gardens and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-80-7101-158-3

Number of pages

271

Publisher name

Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze

Place of publication

Praha

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