Gertrude Bell was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire and was the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. This work is a richly compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and times and created a remarkable and enduring legacy.
Diana: Her Life in Fashion is a celebration of the princess'' life through some of her most enduring asse ts; her beauty and her sense of style. The text is illustrat ed with documentary photographs, sketches and official portr aits. '
It has been said that English photographer Lord Snowdon (born Tony Armstrong-Jones) knows everyone worth knowing. In this first retrospective on his nearly 50-year career, it seems he has also been everywhere and seen everything -- and captured it all, brilliantly, on camera. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Portrait ...
Women photographed by Vogue magazine feature in this book, which follows the forms that female beauty has taken over the 20th century, featuring such icons of 20th-century beauty as Elizabeth Taylor and Lady Diana Cooper.
Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the ...
This is a series of profiles of the people who have most influenced the world of fashion over the last 30 years including David Bailey, Karl Lagerfeld, fashion editor Michael Roberts, Balenciaga and Issy Miyake. The book includes an overview of fashion and interviews with personalities in the industry. Georgina Howell was winner of the "Vogue" ...
At a time when women were still largely excluded from both education and the workplace, Gertrude Bell was an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer and mountaineer - but until the Iraq War of 2003 few people had heard her name. During the course of her extraordinary life she not only abandoned her privileged background ...
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