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Models of Influence: 50 Women Who Reset the Course of Fashion
New York Times Bestseller
Nigel Barker--fashion authority, photographer, and host of Oxygen's The Face--presents 50 of the most influential models from the 1940s to today through a wealth of full-color photographs from the world's most renowned fashion photographers and an anecdotal text that reveals each woman's indelible place in the pantheons of fashion and popular culture.
Interweaving 200 gorgeous photographs and informative and entertaining anecdotes, Models of Influence profiles 50 women who have made an unforgettable impression on fashion, the modeling industry, and our notions of beauty. Eight chronological chapters, each of which spotlight an era, feature the stories and images of women who made their mark.
These include Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, Dovima, and Dorian Leigh, who reigned during modeling's golden age in the 1950s; Twiggy, Veruschka, and Jean Shrimpton, who embodied the free spirit of the 1960s; and Lauren Hutton, Iman, and Janice Dickinson, models who revolutionized the notion of beauty in the 1970s. Barker profiles those who've become the million-dollar faces of their time, such as Christie Brinkley and Elle Macpherson; revisits the age of the supermodel, when Christy Turlington,
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Green Acre #357: A Wreath of One’s Own
By Stephanie Cavanaugh
A offering from Wreaths of Maine, left. Kinsman Garden wreath, right.
MY DEAR FRIEND Margot passed away last month. She was taken while gardening, they say, by a mosquito bearing West Nile virus. This was just shy of her 97th birthday, mere days before her annual trip home to Germany, where she was booked into her usual draconian spa where she would fast for two weeks and stomp through the mountains and take saunas, always returning looking 10 years younger.
She was strong as a bull, and anyone who knew her expected her to celebrate her 110th, probably by shoveling snow, or planting a few hundred tulips with a spoon.
I should have known something was very wrong when Margot, my hydrangea, died this summer. Margot, my friend, gave it to me 15 years or so ago, and it tossed off gorgeous pink blossoms and grew wilder and more glorious each season. And then it stopped. Just. Stopped. Gone, pfft.
The point being, there will be no wreath from my friend Margot this year. She always ordered one from Wreaths of Maine, a big bushy thing with a few pine cones, a fake red velvet bow, which I would rip off and replace with a purple bow to match the ones in the window boxes, and dreadful red plastic apples,
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Novella: The Compliant at Peacocks Hall
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