Fashionista
Subtitle: a century of style icons
By: Simone Werle ; [translated from the German by Paul Aston]
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9783791339368
Subjects: Fashion; Frauenkleidung; Celebrities; Pictorial works; Lebensstil; History; Biography; Women
Description: Whether radiantly glamorous, superbly farouche, or coolly minimalist-- what fashionistas wear today fills the world's closets tomorrow. The leading fashion icons of the last hundred years are presented in glorious detail.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The classics Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ; The Duchess of Windsor ; Audrey Hepburn ; Raia Al-Abdullah of Jordan ; Grace Kelly ; Babe Paley ; Gloria Guinness ; Slim Keith ; C.Z. Guest ; Carolina Herrera; title: The it girls : Edie Sedgwick ; Chloë Sevigny ; Louise Brooks ; Bianca Jagger ; Siena Miller ; Marchesa Luisa Casati ; Twiggy ; Kate Moss ; Mary Quint; title: The bombshells : Marilyn Monroe ; Brigitte Bardot ; Gwen Stefani; title: The modernists : Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel ; Sofia Coppola ; Jil Sander ; Katherine Hepburn ; Carolyn Bessette Kennedy; title: The artists : Josephine Baker ; Elsa Schiapelli ; Frida Kahlo; title: The divas : Joan Crawford ; Dita von Tesse ; Marlene Dietrich ; Diana, Princess of Wales ; Scarlett Johansson ; Suzanne Lenglen; title: The eccentrics : Anna Piaggi : Björk ; Isabella Blow ; Diana Vreeland ; Grace Jones; title: The candy girls : Carrie Bradshaw ; Kylie Minogue ; Rachel Zoe; title: The rebels : Agyness Deyn ; Gloria von Thurm und Taxis ; Courtney Love ; Vivienne Westwood ; Any Winehouse; title: The chameleon : Madonna.