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The work someone leaves behind can be clearer than the life they led while making it. These biographies follow people who changed their fields and examine the decisions, relationships, and competing obligations that shaped what they could do. Each book offers a place to start if you want to understand both the work and the person responsible for it.

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The Master of Us All (2013)

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The Master of Us All
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Mary Blume looks at Cristóbal Balenciaga’s career through the workrooms and the recollections of his longtime colleague Florette Chelot. Clothes and the people who made or sold them occupy the foreground of a book about a famously private designer. Choose it for a workroom view of how one person’s reputation was made through the labor of many.
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