Description |
206 pages : photographs, portraits ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Samuel Beckett -- George Sand -- John Updike -- Arthur Rimbaud -- Gertrude Stein -- Patti Smith -- Allen Ginsberg -- Robert Crumb -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Cornel West -- David Foster Wallace -- Sylvia Plath -- Edith Sitwell -- F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald -- Marcel Proust -- T.S. Eliot -- Gay Talese -- Bret Easton Ellis -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Mark Twain -- Jacqueline Susann -- Fran Lebowitz -- Joe Orton -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Susan Sontag -- Karl Ove Knausgaard -- Malcolm Gladwell -- Michael Chabon -- Toni Morrison -- Ernest Hemingway -- Donna Tartt -- Colette -- Hunter S. Thompson -- Dorothy Parker -- Quentin Crisp -- Joan Didion -- Virginia Woolf -- Djuna Barnes -- Zadie Smith -- Oscar Wilde -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Edith Wharton -- Saul Bellow -- Truman Capote -- William S. Burroughs -- James Joyce -- Nancy Mitford -- Maya Angelou -- Tom Wolfe. |
Summary |
"Discover the signature sartorial and literary style of fifty men and women of letters in this unique compendium of profiles packed with eighty black-and-white photographs, excerpts, quotes, and fast facts that illuminates their impact on modern fashion." -- from Amazon. |
Subject(S) |
Fashion -- History -- 20th century.
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Authors -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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ISBN |
9780062428301 |
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0062428306 |
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