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Empress of Fashion
Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
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Description for Empress of Fashion
Hardcover. Portrays a visionary: a fearless innovator who inspired designers, models, photographers and artists, and who reinvented the way we think about style and where we go to think about it. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 34. Weight in Grams: 760.
As an editor, curator and wit, Diana Vreeland made a lasting mark and remains an icon for generations of fashion lovers. During her fifty-year reign as the ‘Empress of Fashion’, she launched Twiggy, advised Jackie O and coined some of fashion’s most eloquent proverbs, such as ‘the bikini is the biggest thing since the atom bomb.’ She aimed to ‘instruct where possible, to delight, to give pleasure, to bring to the reader what interests her.’ In this book, the first full-length biography of Vreeland, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart portrays a visionary: a fearless innovator who inspired designers, models, photographers and artists, ... Read more
As an editor, curator and wit, Diana Vreeland made a lasting mark and remains an icon for generations of fashion lovers. During her fifty-year reign as the ‘Empress of Fashion’, she launched Twiggy, advised Jackie O and coined some of fashion’s most eloquent proverbs, such as ‘the bikini is the biggest thing since the atom bomb.’ She aimed to ‘instruct where possible, to delight, to give pleasure, to bring to the reader what interests her.’ In this book, the first full-length biography of Vreeland, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart portrays a visionary: a fearless innovator who inspired designers, models, photographers and artists, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Number of pages
448
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
767g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500516812
SKU
V9780500516812
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About Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
Amanda Mackenzie Stuart worked as a screenwriter and independent film producer for a number of years before publishing her first biography, the critically acclaimed Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daugher and Mother in the Gilded Age. She lives in Oxford, UK.
Reviews for Empress of Fashion
'Mackenzie Stuart has written a stylish, funny, fond and vivid book. The only puzzle is that a subject so irresistible as Vreeland should have gone without a good biography for quite so long' - Sunday Times 'Impeccably researched and beautifully written' - Daily Mail (Book of the Week) 'The research for this book has been exhaustive, but Mackenzie Stuart wears ... Read more