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The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History

On November 28, 1973, the world's social elite gathered at the Palace of Versailles for an international fashion show.  By the time the curtain came down on the evening's spectacle, history had been made and the industry had been forever transformed . . .  

Pulitzer-Prize winning fashion journalist Robin Givhan offers a lively and meticulously well-researched account of this unique event.  The Battle of Versailles is a sharp, engaging cultural history that offers an intimate examination of a single moment to illuminate for modern readers how the world of fashion as we know it came to be.