Pedro Rodríguez & Maria Brillas
Pedro Rodríguez ...
.. Was a sculptor of fashion and worked directly on the canvas, on his models. Born in Valencia (1895), he moved to Barcelona in 1900 and began very early to learn the skill and the art of fashion: at the age of 10 he began working at a tailor shop and a few years later in 1919, he opened his own shop with his wife, Ana Maria, on Consell de Cent. He is an essential figure in the development of the fashion industry in our country.
Pedro Rodríguez at DHUBdoc
Solé, Magda. Pedro Rodríguez. Barcelona : Labor, 1991. (Gent nostra ; 89).
Pedro Rodríguez : exposición-homenaje a Pedro Rodríguez : barcelona, 27-29 de octubre de 1976. Barcelona : Diputación de Barcelona : Cámara de la Moda Española : Agrupación Nacional de Empresas Confeccionistas, 1976.
Rodríguez, Pedro. Para comprender la moda. Barcelona : Dolmen, [1945 o post.]
High Couture at DHUBdoc
Ewing, Elisabeth. History of 20th Century Fashion. London : B.T. Batsford Ltd., 2001.
Icons of fashion : the 20th century . edited by Gerda Buxbaum. Munich ; New York : Prestel, cop. 1999.
Mendes, Valerie ; Amy de la Haye. 20th Century Fashion. London : Thames and Hudson, 1999.
Pasalodos, Mercedes. "Alta costura, costura de altura en los años 50", Indumenta : revista del Museo del Traje, núm. 01 (2008), p. 22-47.
Further Research
Appearance and Power. edited by Kim K. P. Johnson and Sharron J. Lennon. Oxford : Berg, 1999. (Dress, Body, Culture)
Gundle, Stephen. Glamour : a history. Oxford Oxford University Press, 2008. Woodward, Sophie. Why women wear what they wear. Oxford : Berg, 2007.
McDonogh, Gary W. Las buenas familias de Barcelona. Barcelona : Omega, 1986.
Segarra, Josep Maria de. Vida privada. Barcelona : Proa, 2007.
