Bøger af Penelope Rowlands

Carmel Snow, who changed the course of our culture by launching the careers of some of today's greatest figures in fashion and the arts, was one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century. As editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958 she championed the concept of "e;a well-dressed magazine for the well-dressed mind,"e; bringing cutting-edge art, fiction, photography, and reportage into the American home. Now comes A Dash of Daring, a first and definitive biography of this larger-than-life figure in publishing, art, and letters. Veteran magazine journalist Penelope Rowlands describes the remarkable places Snow frequented and the people whose lives she transformed, among them Richard Avedon, Diana Vreeland, Geoffrey Beene, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cristobal Balenciaga, Lauren Bacall, and Truman Capote. She chronicles Snow's life on both sides of the Atlantic, beginning in nineteenth-century Ireland and continuing to Paris, Milan, and New York City, the fashion capitals of the world. Snow was the daughter of an Irish immigrant, who was herself a forward-thinking businesswoman, and she worked in her mother's custom dressmaking shop before being discovered by the magazine publisher Conde Nast and training under Edna Woolman Chase, the famous longtime editor of Vogue. From there it was on to Harper's Bazaar which, with the help of such key employees as Avedon, Vreeland, and art director Alexei Brodovitch, Snow turned into the most admired magazine of the century. Among the disparate talents who worked at Bazaar in the Snow era were Andy Warhol, the heiress Doris Duke, Maeve Brennan, and members of the storied Algonquin Round Table. Overflowing with previously untold stories of the colorful and glamorous, A Dash of Daring is a compelling portrait of the fashion world during a golden era.

A celebration of the myth, the reality, the phenomenon, the era. Where did the Beatles take us, what did they deliver us from, and what do they mean to us now?From Billy Joel: ¿The single biggest moment that I can remember of being galvanized into wanting to be a musician for life was seeing the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. They played their own instruments and they wrote their own songs and they looked like these working-class kids, like kids we all knew.¿ From Amanda Vaill: ¿We were caught up in something bigger than ourselves, a kind of movement, and this music was our anthem.¿From Fran Lebowitz: ¿Parents didn¿t like the Beatles, but basically parents didn¿t like us. People forget that. Our parents were mad at us all the time.¿ From ¿Cousin Brucie¿ Morrow: ¿We weren¿t smiling too much. We had assassinations. The nation was really divided. The Beatles sort of helped to bring everybody together.¿ From Noelle Oxenhandler: ¿To this day, I could still probably give the correct answer if someone were to ask: `What is John¿s shirt size?¿ `How does he like to take his eggs and tea?¿ `How old was he when he went to live with his Aunt Mimi?¿?¿ From Pico Iyer: ¿The day the Beatles landed in New York City was the day the United Kingdom could finally see that it wasn¿t just yesterday¿s power, on the decline, but part of what would form tomorrow¿s trans-Atlantic axis.¿ From Cyndi Lauper: ¿When I was eleven and the Beatles were coming to New York, my mother drove my sister, her friend Diane, and me to where the Hilton Hotel is, by the airport, so we could see the Beatles drive by. All of a sudden we saw cars coming and it was them. So I started screaming and I shut my eyes, and by the time I realized I should open my eyes, I¿d missed it.¿ From David Dye: ¿My daughter is now a junior in high school. You can¿t play a Beatles song that she doesn¿t know. I think to have that kind of cultural staying power is truly amazing.¿

Describes how the authors were seduced by Paris and then began to see things differently. They came to write, to cook, to find love, to study, to raise children, to escape, or to live the way it's done in French movies; they came from the United States, Canada, and England; from Iran, Iraq, and Cuba; and - a few - from other parts of France.