Vanity Project: A Tale of Fashion and Celebrity Styled by Dave Thomas

Deutsch, Stephen/ Thomas, Dave/ The Prince of Wales, the Prince of Wales (Foreward By)/ Ritchie, Lionel (Introduction by)/ Legend, John (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 1913491005 / ISBN 13: 9781913491000

Editore: Unicorn Pr Ltd, 2021

256 pages. 7.75x5.00x1.40 inches. In Stock. Codice articolo 1913491005

Riassunto:

In 1988, Dave Thomas was an unemployed plumber in Gloucester with a seemingly impossible dream: to enter the world of fashion. He moved to London, worked weekends as a caf&#233; dishwasher and evenings as a toilet attendant in a West End nightclub, and in every spare moment he hammered on the doors of&#160;fashion editors until one of them finally opened a tiny crack.<br><br> Thomas seized the chance to be an unpaid dogsbody at&#160;<i>Riva</i>&#160;magazine, where he worked with legends of style Judy Blame and Isabella Blow and dressed artists like Lisa Stansfield, Boy George, and Kylie Minogue. Soon after, he was hired by&#160;<i>Esquire</i>&#160;UK and became the youngest fashion editor in the world. He ultimately moved on to edit fashion at&#160;<i>Vogue Hommes</i>,&#160;<i>Vanity Fair</i>, and&#160;<i>Interview</i>, and his work has since been published in a raft of international magazines.<br><br> In the intervening decades, the business of styling ascended from the pavement to the penthouse. What began as kids playing dress up with ribbons and safety pins evolved into the backbone of a multibillion-dollar style and clothing industry. And Thomas, now one of Hollywood&#8217;s most successful stylists, rose along with it.<br><br> Covering more than thirty years of fashion and celebrity,<i>&#160;Vanity Project&#160;</i>traces the evolution of celebrity styling from the streets of London in the 1980s to the red carpets of Hollywood today. Featuring interviews conducted by Boy George alongside 250 full-color images, the book gives readers a behind-the-curtain look at more than three decades&#8217; worth of glamour and tantrums, friendships and rivalries, and the surprisingly hard graft of celebrity styling.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Stephen Deutsch is a musician, composer, and playwright. He is known for his work in film, theater, radio, and television and his twenty-five-year collaboration with the playwright Peter Barnes. A lecturer in film sound and music, he is the editor of the journals The Soundtrack and The New Soundtrack and the coauthor of Listening to the Film: A Practical Philosophy of Film Sound.

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Titolo: Vanity Project: A Tale of Fashion and ...
Casa editrice: Unicorn Pr Ltd
Data di pubblicazione: 2021
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Brand New