About the book: 2011 / You are holding in your hands a unique book that has been reaching the Russian reader for three quarters of a century. Paul Poiret is an absolute genius of his craft, the greatest of the great Parisian couturiers of the 20th century. The famous book of the “Emperor of Parisian Fashion” was first published in Paris in 1930 and traveled around the globe in translations. Finally, it appeared in Russian! During the years of writing his memoirs, Paul Poiret had already left the Olympus of high fashion and it was no coincidence that he called them “Dressing the Epoch.” It was impossible to come up with a more accurate name - precisely the era! – he dressed a whole generation of beautiful ladies, celestials of the belle époque, doing it elegantly and elegantly.