The power of style

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The
Women Who Defined the Art of Living Well
By Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins

They were the most stylish women of their time, setting the standards for the world of fash-ion, decorating, and entertaining. Rita Lydig, Elsie de Wolfe, Coco Chanel, Daisy Fellowes, the Duchess of Windsor, Countess Mona Bismarck, Millicent Rogers, Diana Vreeiand, Pauline de Rothschild, Babe Paley, Glória Guinness, Síim Keith, C. Z. Guest, and Jacqueline Onassis— these women not only dominated their time, they continue to fascinate and inspire.
The power of Styi.E makes these twentieth-century legends come alive, revealing their secrets and explaining, for the first time, how they came to be such preeminent figures. More, it reveals the amusing, instructive, and sometiines painful tales of the lives behind the legends.
Drawing 011 personal correspondence, intimate interviews with those who knew these women best, and long-forgotten periodicals, Annette Tapert has fasliioned a text that will be... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The
Women Who Defined the Art of Living Well
By Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins

They were the most stylish women of their time, setting the standards for the world of fash-ion, decorating, and entertaining. Rita Lydig, Elsie de Wolfe, Coco Chanel, Daisy Fellowes, the Duchess of Windsor, Countess Mona Bismarck, Millicent Rogers, Diana Vreeiand, Pauline de Rothschild, Babe Paley, Glória Guinness, Síim Keith, C. Z. Guest, and Jacqueline Onassis— these women not only dominated their time, they continue to fascinate and inspire.
The power of Styi.E makes these twentieth-century legends come alive, revealing their secrets and explaining, for the first time, how they came to be such preeminent figures. More, it reveals the amusing, instructive, and sometiines painful tales of the lives behind the legends.
Drawing 011 personal correspondence, intimate interviews with those who knew these women best, and long-forgotten periodicals, Annette Tapert has fasliioned a text that will be a revelation even to dedicated followers of style. Diana Edkins, photograpliic histórián and curator of the Condé Nast photograph archive, has scoured
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priváté arcliives as well as the resources of fashion's most significant magazines to unearth 175 color and black-and-white photographs, somé of whicli ha ve never been published.
Lavishly illustrated and acutely written, The Power of Style is more than a guided tour of the lives, houses, and fashions of the women whose names are synonymous with the art of liv-ing well—it is the definitive book on the subject.
Annette Tapert is the author of three books of military history and Swid Powell: Objects by Architects. She coauthored Síim: Memories of a Rich and Impeifect Life with Síim Keith, and Siegfried and Roy: Mastering the Impossible. She has written for Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, and Mirabella. She lives in New York City.
Photograph © 1993 byjilt Kremenlz
Diana Edkins was the photographic editor and project coordinator of Vanity Fair: Photographs of an Age, 1913-1934 and of Ón the Edge: Images from 100 Years of Vogue. She was alsó the editor and collaborator with Róbert Delpire of lanites.
She lives in New Jersey. Photograph © 1993 by Ere Sonneman
Jacket design by Rochelle Udell and Justine Strasberg
Jackel illustrations © 1994 by Gladys Perint Palmer
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