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Bals, Nicholas Foulkes
A ballerina entertains at the Cuevas Ball. © Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
John Jacob Astor IV, who would later die on the Titanic. © Bettmann/Corbis
Three masks designed by Oliver Messel, worn by Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe) and her two escorts to Beaumont’s Flora and Fauna Ball. © Condé Nast Archive/Corbis
"French starlet Zizi Jeanmaire, her not soeighteenth- century costume, and her camel brought a hint of the circus and a touch of the burlesque to the Cuevas Ball." © Vagn Hansen/BIPs/Getty Images
Fashion designer Pierre Balmain displays some fancy footwork. © Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
"Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy and a star among Capote’s beloved society swans, adjusts her mask." © Bettmann/Corbis
Marisa Berenson dressed for the Rothschilds’ Proust ball as La Casati. Photo by Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton/Vogue © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd
Bals Slipcase: Lee Radziwill at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball, November 1966 © Bettmann/Corbis
A ballerina entertains at the Cuevas Ball. © Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
From the twilight of the Romanov dynasty through les années folles of Art Deco Paris to the jet-set seventies, Bals explores the nine most exceptional private costume parties of the twentieth century.
You will find the memories of Paul Poiret, Truman Capote, and Cecil Beaton who immortalized these extraordinary balls, Jacqueline de Ribes, Hélène David-Weill, and Marisa Berenson.
Legendary Costume Balls of the Twentieth Century
Text by Nicholas Foulkes, Assouline publisher
ISBN: 978-1-61428-000-2 – $175 - €130 - £110
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