Iris Biddle is 40, divorced, and overwhelmed. Lana is 34 with a promising career and an ambivalent boyfriend. These two friends struggle to meet the challenges of being single women in Manhattan at the beginning of the 21st century in this novel by a New York City editor and critic.
A master fashion photographer focuses his lens on the elements--line, texture, drape, sweep, ornament--that the masters such as Chanel, Givenchy and Saint Laurent use to transform fashion into couture. With an illuminating text by Jacobs and quotes from the couturiers, The Art of Haute Couture is a must for fashion lovers everywhere. 150 ...
Fashion lovers of any allegiance will be delighted, tickled, and provoked by this charming collection of specially commissioned drawings of Geoffrey Beene's garments, paired with a fanciful, poetic text. 40 full-color illustrations.
Over 700 million Barbie dolls have been sold since 1959 and each day, somewhere in the world, two Barbie dolls are bought each second. Barbie is the quintessential beauty and a potent reminder of childhood. She's slim, leggy, confident, cheerful, smart, and accomplished; her resume lists careers as an astronaut, cowgirl, veterinarian, executive, ...
Barbie began her life in 1959 as a fashion model, but has since embraced a wide array of careers, including astronaut, surgeon, US Air Force pilot, police officer, presidential candidate, baseball player and Ice Capades star. This look at Barbie's life includes the looks of the 1990s.
This work on Barbie, the doll who is the personification of the all-American girl, should appeal to fashion enthusiasts, nostalgia buffs, and Barbie collectors. It traces Barbie's history from the late 50s to the present day, featuring Barbie modelling a different outfit on every page.
On the occasion of her one hundredth birthday in 2001, a new edition of Laura Riding's collected poems. Always ahead of her time, no other major poet of the last century enters the twenty-first so fresh, so essentially unexplored as does Laura Riding. Her formidable credentials as a modernist need no longer distract attention from the class-of-her ...
In "Talking About Supervision," Laura Elliot offers us the wisdom of a distinguished group of international psychoanalysts about supervision and other aspects of the psychoanalytic training experience. Supervision is now coming more into focus with the growing emphasis on training analysis as a personal matter for the candidate, entirely separate ...
This book is an engaging collection of essays by dance critis, novelist, and Vanity Fair contributing editor Laura Jacobs. Ideas in the areas of dance composition, performance, production, criticism, education, history, theory presentation, anthropology, science, medecine, therapy, somatic studies, and related arts are explored.
The definitive update, covering all 40 years of Barbie, this volume takes the world's most popular cultural icon to the cusp of the millennium with style to spare. 240 color illustrations.
Laura Jacobs is a writer who knows the New York woman better than anyone else. Margret Snow, a thirty-one year old artist is married to Charles, a university professor. Against the landscape of Central Park, the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue, glittering gallery openings, weekends at their Chesapeake Bay home and the couple's lifelong hobby - bird ...
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