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The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places |  | Creators: Hamish Bowles, Alexandra Kotur
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 50469
Format: Deckle Edge
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.2
Dimensions (in): 12.7 x 9.8 x 1.7
ISBN: 0307271870
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9780307271877
ASIN: 0307271870
Publication Date: November 17, 2009
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Keira Knightley
(Arthur Elgort) | Miranda Brooks
(Arthur Elgort) | Bride and Groom Dogs
(Bruce Weber) | Iman and David Bowie
(Bruce Weber) |  |  |  |  | Kate Moss and John Galliano
(Robert Fairer) | Mornington Wedding with Umbrella
(Robert Fairer) | Valentino's Home
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Product Description
This one-of-a-kind book of 300 photographs 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 portraits—in studios or on location—that 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 Fressange’s apartment in Paris; Gloria Steinem reporting on the 540 masked partygoers at the Black and White Ball Truman Capote threw for Katharine Graham at the Plaza hotel; the gardens of Valentino’s seventeenth-century Château de Wideville, outside Paris; the designers, the best-dressed, and the stars 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 black-and-white 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.
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 On the other hand, the overentitled are so PRETTY May 20, 2010
your neighborhood librarian (Baltimore, MD)
Does this book qualify as a fetish book? Or a guilty pleasure? Or, in fact, is this book more along the lines of I-gotta-read-it-cause-I-HATE-half-these-people? Like Vanity Fair when it gets all drooly over European royalty. Or quasi royalty. Or anyone with a robber-baron 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 with 30-foot ceilings. Collections of Meissen. Gardens measured in acres. Wedding dresses measured in seamstress-hours. They marry people like Peter Beard, one of the best-looking 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.
 Magnificent January 19, 2010
Tate J. Tullier
This big book is just magnificent. I haven't even finished looking through it yet, but it's sitting pretty on our couch as decor too!
A must have!
-t
From a fan of Vogue January 14, 2010
Robyn (Cayman Islands)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I live vicariously however unrealistically through Vogue and appreciate the good taste and lovely photos so this book is perfect for me. The world of beauty will never become stale in my mind. I would have to disagree that putting Tom Brady and Gisele Bunchen on the cover is a mistake - what better way to epitomizse the combination of the athletic world with the world of fashion? They have indeed become intertwined as has the world of fashion and the world of entertainment. A lovely book to keep ~
The World in Vogue: People Parties, Places January 9, 2010
Lorna D. Wallace (Docklands, Victoria Australia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was hoping to find more on parties and it was really more on people.
Wonderful - January 9, 2010
miles (New York City, NY United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A huge book for the admirers of good taste, style, beauty and culture. VOGUE manages to impress again. I wouldn't expect anything less, of course.
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