Find The World In Vogue: People, Parties, Places Expressed By Hamish Bowles Offered In Volume

like an insight into another world, one that we do not belong This oneofakind book ofphotographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, First Ladies, and social figures draws on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue over the past four decades, as well as photographs from those stories that have never been published.
These trendsetters and newsmakers are captured by such famous photographers as Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Horst P.
Horst, Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, François Halard, Helmut Newton, Stephen Meisel, Snowdon, Toni Frissell, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Annie Leibovitz.
Not only did these photographers take dazzling portraitsin studios or on locationthat caught these iconic figures in classic, playful, or dramatic moments but they also documented their parties, weddings, houses, and gardens.
Writers like Hamish Bowles, Paul Rudnick, Truman Capote, Francis Wyndham, Jeffrey Steingarten, Joan Juliet Buck, William Norwich, Gloria Steinem, Georgina Howell, Vicki Woods, Marina Rust, Michael Specter, and Jonathan Van Meter tell you the stories behind these figures and events.


Here are the glamorous weddings of Plum Sykes in Yorkshire, Lauren Davis in Cartagena, and Minnie Cushing in Newport Truman Capote writing about cruising the Yugoslavian coast with Lee Radziwill, Luciana Pignatelli, and the Agnellis gardens from East Hampton to Corfu designed by landscape architect Miranda Brooks Inès de La Fressanges apartment in Paris Gloria Steinem reporting on themasked partygoers at the Black and White Ball Truman Capote threw for Katharine Graham at the Plaza hotel the gardens of Valentinos seventeenthcentury Château de Wideville, outside Paris the designers, the bestdressed, and the at the annual Costume Institute party at the Metropolitan Museum Mick Jagger and his family

in Mustique Jacqueline Kennedy and Michelle Obama Kate Moss, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Ali MacGraw, Anjelica Huston, Nicole Kidman, Cher, Iman and David Bowie, Penélope Cruz, Charlotte Rampling, and many more.


Richly illustrated in blackandwhite and color, The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places is a stunning look at portraits, houses, gardens, and parties of celebrated figures from many worlds.
Despite being massive, I finished this one in a matter of a couple hours, Much of the book is photographs with captions, though there are spreads with articles, I not so secretly wish I could have been on a show like America's next top model, because that world is so fascinating to me.
On the other hand, I realize how shallow and vapid that same world is, so I'm glad I'm a normal person.
Still, Vogue is special to me, and this book is a fascinating look at fashion over the years.
Does this book qualify as a fetish book Or a guilty pleasure Or, in fact, is this book more along the lines of IgottareaditcauseIHATEhalfthesepeople Like Vanity Fair when it gets all drooly over European royalty.
Or quasi royalty. Or anyone with a robberbaron last name, Mellon. Vanderbilt. Astor. Janklow heh. They're all in here, believe me, Principessas, Crown Princes, the whole lot, with their blonde American wives, too, And it's as infuriating as ever when the editors refer to such beings by their title, even when, as in the case of Pavlos of Greece, such titles have been rendered meaningless by history and by acts of government.


DEEP BREATH.

On the other hand, the overentitled are so pretty, They have cool antiques and rooms withfoot ceilings, Collections of Meissen. Gardens measured in acres. Wedding dresses measured in seamstresshours, They marry people like Peter Beard, one of the bestlooking people ever born, And they get photographed by Avedon, Annie Leibowitz, Herb Ritts, Mario Testino, Helmut Newton,

Also, there are models and actresses, and at least two instances of Clooney, So that helps. Hamish Bowles is European editor at large for Vogue and editor in chief of Vogue Living, He was curator of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtsCostume Institute exhibition, “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years.
” He lives in New York, London, and Paris, .