There's a new Audrey Hepurn book out: This one is a luxe compilation of the actress' 100 best photographs, as chosen by her family!
Take a look:
The photos -- which include snapshots, studio portraits and candids -- were taken by such greats as Sir Cecil Beaton, Douglas Kirkland, Norman Parkinson, and Philippe Halsman. "Audrey 100" was written by Ellen Fontana with a forward by the actress' son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer.
The details: Sterling, 192 pages, $40.
Another one for the Xmas list!
(Photos, above, from barnesandnoble.com.)
What is it about the young lovers that so inspires the cyber scribes?
(First Romeo & Juliet installment here!)
New York Times' T Magazine has an interview today with Birkin about music (two of her old albums are being released on CD) and about style (what it was like to be an Hermès muse.)
From the NYT story: “I was on an airplane,” Birkin said, explaining the bag’s genesis, “when a plastic bag holding all my things broke and everything fell out — my date book, papers, everything. Just as I was saying how I wish Hermès would make a bag that could fit all my things, the man sitting next to me happened to work for Hermès — it was Jean-Louis Dumas, the head designer! They already had the Kelly bag, named after Grace Kelly, so he began work on the Birkin bag. I went down to the atelier, and he had made it in cardboard. And we talked about it, and I said they should make some changes, like making pockets bigger. And that’s how it was made.”
Just like that!
Happy Monday my dears. I hope you had a relaxing weekend!
As usual I spent lots of time this weekend reading (finishing the Philip Roth book and starting the new biography of Cleopatra). During my Internet newspaper rounds, I found this wonderful story in the Irish Times Magazine.
The headline says: "Wearing vintage doesn't have to make you feel like second-hand Rose." Indeed! I LOVE this rose colored pettycoat!
Happy weekend everyone! What do you have planned? I plan on watching movies on DVD while making jewelry for a show I have coming up in Silver Lake. I'm also looking forward to starting a new book, "Mr. Cartwell," by Rebecca Hunt. It's been sizzling hot here in Los Angeles and I'd really love to spend a little time at the beach!
Before I sign off for the weekend, here's my link roundup...
First off: Holly Becker's book, "Decorate: 1,000 Design Ideas for Every Room in Your Home" is
on pre-sale on Amazon. I love Becker's blog, decor8, and I can't wait to get the book!
New York Times' Cathy Horyn, one of my favorite fashion writers, reviews
the Chronicle reissue of Diana Vreeland's 1980 book, "Allure."
Here's a very insightful report:
What your profile picture really says about you.
Ian Frazier's take on people who write in the margins of their books.
and...
A peek at the stuff inside Emma Watson's Mulberry bag.
Have a great weekend!
(Photo, above, from here.)
Philip Roth's "The Humbling," about an actor who can no longer act. So he runs off to the country where me meets a much younger (and very sexy) woman. Good ol' Roth.
The New Yorker's profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. I have a friend who fell completely in love with him after seeing the Social Network. If you, too, are craving more details about Zuckerberg's life, you'll find plenty in the New Yorker piece.
During stop lights I've been scanning "On Solitude" by Michel De Montaigne. It's a lovely, slim letterpress edition from Penguin's Great Idea series. Very easy to carry around. And amazingly insightful.
At Starbucks: flipping through the new Anthropologie catalogue.
Also rereading underlined paragraphs in Michael Cunningham's book,
"The Hours."
"She looks older, Louis thinks in astonishment. It's finally happening. What a remarkable thing, these genetic trip wires, the way a body can sail along essentially unaltered, decade after decade, and then in a few years capitulate to age."
wow.
Just picked up:
The Chronicle Books reissue of Diana Vreeland's "Allure." Goodie!
What are you reading at the moment?
