FASHION. The Exhibition Le Théatre de la Mode in London. Paris: Aljanvic Publicité, 1945. Limited edition, this number 344 of an unspecified edition, folio (298 x 234mm.) 46pp. of colour advertisements, numerous tipped-in plates, essays and illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial spiral-bound card wrappers (minor browning, rubbing to extremities, slight loss to top of spine). Note: this is the exhibition catalogue for the first post-war show of Parisian couture. Following years of war-time privation and therefore lacking materials, this exhibition used two hundred miniature wire dolls to exhibit the work of the leading French designers. Utilising the skills of many leading people in the arts, the catalogue has photographs by Brassai and Doisneau and a contribution by Jean Cocteau. It was an exhibition that toured Paris, London, Leeds, Barcelona and Stockholm. The following year, with new designs, the dolls toured America.