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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Discover what truly happens behind the scenes in the world of high fashion in this detailed, storied memoir from style icon, bestselling author, and former Vogue creative director André Leon Talley. During André Leon Talley's first magazine job assisting Andy Warhol at Interview, a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decade's long friendship with the enigmatic, often caustic designer. Propelled into the upper echelons by his knowledge and...
Author
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
Describes the author's life after she quit her glamorous job at Vogue and moved to Ghana to help the country's children, orphaned through the AIDS epidemic, by moving away from institutional orphanages and phasing in monitored fostering.
Author
Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Wanda Smalls Lloyd's Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism-with a foreword by best-selling author Tina McElroy Ansa-is the memoir of an African American woman who grew up privileged and educated in the restricted culture of the American South in the 1950s-1960s. Her path was shaped by segregated social, community, and educational systems, religious and home training, a strong cultural foundation, and early leadership opportunities. Despite...
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Violet Velvet Mittens with Everything captures the dramatic, spectacular world of fashion icon Diana Vreeland, whose legacy at Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art continues to influence the fashion world today. As a little girl in Paris, Vreeland loved to read and dance, and most of all dress up. Her love of originality persisted through her career in fashion, where her work was colorful, zany, and...
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Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In 2020, Kamala Harris became the first Black and South Asian woman to be elected vice president of the United States. But in 1952, Charlotta Spears Bass was the first Black woman to run for vice president. With key biographical information and related historical events, this Capstone Captivate book uncovers Bass's inspiring story and her historic political achievement"--
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