Filled with tips on hair, makeup, nails, lips, shopping, packing, and smiling for photographs, this book will thrill readers...
A fashion maven shares her secrets.
In 1995, former Barneys New York fashion director Brooks (I Love Your Style, 2009) was in Miami, working as a photographer’s intern, when Madonna invited the whole photography team to her 35th birthday party. The young fashionista had not packed a single party dress, causing her to scurry around South Beach in search of something suitably amazing. In the end, she wound up wearing her own floral slip dress, pretty, but not “remotely cool.” Readers with similar problems—lunch with Mick Jagger, gallery openings with Plum Sykes, sudden invitations to the splendiferous Met Ball—will find much useful advice in this bright and breezy confection. Brooks has been swept up in fashion since childhood (she grew up shopping in Palm Beach), and although she picks up a Chanel this and a Lauren that at flea markets and vintage shops, she also inherited couture from her stylish mother and aunt. She counts among her fashion influences Patricia Herrera (daughter of designer Carolina), her college roommate at Brown; Diane von Furstenberg, whose son she dated; Brown classmate Tracee Ellis Ross, Diana’s daughter; Sofia Coppola, her “favorite of all style setters”; and model Lauren Hutton. At 22, Brooks was a gallerina, “one of the well-raised, polite girls pretty enough to charm billionaires into buying art at blue-chip galleries,” when she decided she’d had enough of owner Gagosian’s tantrums. After she quit, a friend advised, “take the thing you like to do most on the weekends and turn it into your career.” That happy pastime was buying vintage handbags at flea markets, so she decided to become a handbag designer, which she parlayed into a job as creative director for Frederic Fekkai, which led to her stint at Barneys.
Filled with tips on hair, makeup, nails, lips, shopping, packing, and smiling for photographs, this book will thrill readers for whom Christian Louboutin is a household god.Pub Date: June 2, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-399-17083-6
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Blue Rider Press
Review Posted Online: March 10, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 2015
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
A moving meditation on mortality by a gifted writer whose dual perspectives of physician and patient provide a singular...
A neurosurgeon with a passion for literature tragically finds his perfect subject after his diagnosis of terminal lung cancer.
Writing isn’t brain surgery, but it’s rare when someone adept at the latter is also so accomplished at the former. Searching for meaning and purpose in his life, Kalanithi pursued a doctorate in literature and had felt certain that he wouldn’t enter the field of medicine, in which his father and other members of his family excelled. “But I couldn’t let go of the question,” he writes, after realizing that his goals “didn’t quite fit in an English department.” “Where did biology, morality, literature and philosophy intersect?” So he decided to set aside his doctoral dissertation and belatedly prepare for medical school, which “would allow me a chance to find answers that are not in books, to find a different sort of sublime, to forge relationships with the suffering, and to keep following the question of what makes human life meaningful, even in the face of death and decay.” The author’s empathy undoubtedly made him an exceptional doctor, and the precision of his prose—as well as the moral purpose underscoring it—suggests that he could have written a good book on any subject he chose. Part of what makes this book so essential is the fact that it was written under a death sentence following the diagnosis that upended his life, just as he was preparing to end his residency and attract offers at the top of his profession. Kalanithi learned he might have 10 years to live or perhaps five. Should he return to neurosurgery (he could and did), or should he write (he also did)? Should he and his wife have a baby? They did, eight months before he died, which was less than two years after the original diagnosis. “The fact of death is unsettling,” he understates. “Yet there is no other way to live.”
A moving meditation on mortality by a gifted writer whose dual perspectives of physician and patient provide a singular clarity.Pub Date: Jan. 19, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8840-6
Page Count: 248
Publisher: Random House
Review Posted Online: Sept. 29, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15, 2015
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