The Power of Style by Tapert, Annette; Edkins, Diana - 1994-11-01

Crown Publishers [Published Date: 1994]. Hardcover, 224 pp. Stated First Edition, (with full number line). Very good in very good dust jacket. Black and white Paper over Boards have light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing and fading along edges with a bit of fraying the paper over the top edge of the front cover. Light overall scuffing and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations throughout with some in color. [From jacket flaps]They were the most stylish women of their time setting the standards for the world of fashion, decorating and entertaining. Rita Lydig. Elsie de Wolfe Coco Chanel. Daisy Fellowes, The Duchess of Windsor ,Countess Mona Bismarck. Millicent Rogers. Diana Vreeland. Pauline de Rothschild. Babe Paley. Gloria Guinness, Slim Keith., C Z Guest, and Jacqueline Onassis— these women not only dominated their time they continue to fascinate and inspire. The Power of Style makes these twentieth-century legends come alive, revealing their secrets and explaining, for the first time, how they came to be such preeminent figure- More, it reveals the amusing instructive, and sometimes painful tales of the lives behind the legends. Drawing on personal correspondence, intimate interviews with those who knew these women best, and long-forgotten periodicals, Annette Tapert has fashioned a text that will be a revelation even to dedicated followers of style. Diana Edkins, photographic historian and curator of the Conde Nast photograph archive, has scoured private archives as well as the resources of fashion's most significant magazines to unearth 175 color and black-and-white photographs, some of which have 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 living well - it is the definitive book on the subject.