Celebrates 95 years of photographic history, with images commissioned and published in the pages of Vanity Fair . This book traces the cultural history of the 20th century and its leading personalities. It brings together more than 300 photographs from the two incarnations of Vanity Fair and offers a roster of fame, talent, and glamour.
Presents a collection featuring thirteen behind-the-scenes stories on some of cinema's most iconic films - including pictures as varied as All About Eve , Cleopatra , Sweet Smell of Success , Rebel Without a Cause and Saturday Night Fever . This title is suitable for pop-culture fanatics and movie-buffs alike.
This book is a complete catalogue of Ford's design work for both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent from 1994 to 2004. It chronicles not only Ford's clothing and accessories designs for both houses, but also explores Ford's grand vision for the complete design of a brand, including architecture, store design and advertising.
Featuring National Magazine Awards' winning and finalist pieces, this anthology includes stories that cover a variety of subjects from Elizabeth Kolbert's investigation into global warming in the New Yorker and James Bamford's look at the PR campaign behind the Iraq War in Rolling Stone to Chris Heath's profile of Merle Haggard in GQ .
Since 1993, Vanity Fair magazine has featured the celebrated Proust Questionnaire, in which a different noteworthy person each month answers the same series of probing personal questions. This title features responses of 100 of the most vibrant personalities of our time, from Bette Midler and Lauren Bacall to Salman Rushdie and Norman Mailer.
How the Bush administration has curtailed our freedoms, mortgaged our economy, ravaged our environment and damaged our standing in the world - an impassioned lament by the editor of Vanity Fair.
Presents the US presidents from Washington to Obama in substantive and witty brief essays by a roster of writers. This work includes entries that range from Benjamin Harrison, with his handshake 'like a wilted petunia' to William McKinley, described by the far greater Teddy Roosevelt as having 'no more backbone than a chocolate eclair'.