KODA, Harry and others. Three Women: Madeline Vionnet, Claire McCardell, and Rei Kawakubo.

(New York, NY): Fashion Institute of Technology, 1987.  Folio.  [16 pages].  Scarce catalogue for an exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Feb 24 – April 18, 1987 that examined construction and style in three great designers of the 20th century. Each designer, in a separate era of the century, provided a new concept and vision of dress. They reformulate and reform dress. All three offer clothing design as a conceptual and radical enterprise. They posit ideas as they work with material; they realize a definition of women as they create the garment. Illustrated with examples of each designer’s work.  A near fine copy in stapled wrappers.