BOOKS & FILMS ❘ REVIEWS LIBRARY
ENTRE NOUS: BOHEMIAN CHIC IN THE 1960S AND 1970S
Mary Russell £22.50 Flammarion LE DIABLE AU CORPS
Raymond Radiguet burst onto the literary scene in 1923 with his first novel, Le Diable Au Corps, which tells the tale of a married woman who has an affair with a 16-year-old boy
while her husband is away at the WWI front. It
caused quite the scandal for its explicitness and
lines like “remember what war was like for so many very young boys: four
years of great holidays”. His unique style pegged
Radiguet for great things, but sadly his only other book, Le bal du comte d’Orgel, was published posthumously. He died aged 20 in 1923 from TB,
which he caught from Jean Cocteau. Coco Chanel organised his funeral.
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As Paris fashion correspondent for prestigious publications such as Vogue, Glamour, Women’s Wear Daily and the Herald Tribune, and stylist for the likes of Helmut Newton and David Bailey, American photographer Mary Russell not only captured the mood of the elite bohemians who ruled the Parisian world of art and fashion in the 1960s and 1970s, but quickly
became a central part of it. Published here for the first time, the charmed lives of the ‘beautiful people’ are brought to life in this collection of Russell’s intimate portraits of the creative high society and of the cultural underground: Andy Warhol’s visit to Paris with friends from the Factory, the circle of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, Loulou de la Falaise, Gianni Versace and his boys, Gunter Sachs, Marisa Berenson and Karl Lagerfeld among many others. The photos are accompanied by fascinating personal anecdotes from the photographer.
YVES SAINT LAURENT: ICONS OF FASHION DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY £25 Abrams & Chronicle
This is a gorgeous homage to the uncrowned king of haute couture. Originally published in 1988, this new reprint traces the success of Saint Laurent’s haute couture and ready-to-wear designs from 1962 to 1988 through the lens of the world’s leading fashion photographers, including Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton,
William Klein and more. Inside, 135 photographs document Saint Laurent’s groundbreaking designs worn by the most beautiful women of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s: Audrey Hepburn, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Mounia, and Veruschka. Saint Laurent was equipped with an infallible instinct for reading the aesthetic signs of the times, and this enabled him to have a profound effect on fashion. With an introduction by Marguerite Duras, this classic volume documents Saint Laurent’s ever-evolving artistry and is as beautiful and rewarding as one of Saint Laurent’s creations.
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HEAVENLY HERMÈS Alice Charbin & Rachael Canepari £28.99 Abrams & Chronicle
You won’t be able to resist this elegant collection of Alice Charbin’s whimsical illustrations from her 18-year collaboration with luxury goods icon Hermès. For almost two decades, illustrator Alice Charbin has been inviting people to escape to the whimsical world of Hermès, where the brand’s iconic orange box frequently shapeshifts and appears in the most unlikely of places. Hermès: Heavenly Days brings together 300 of Charbin’s best drawings in a beautiful package that’s perfect for every coffee table. From Christmas in the North Pole to Paris in the springtime, these winks from the house of Hermès will make readers of all ages smile. Did you know, by the way, that Hermès’ iconic orange box came
about purely by accident? It fi rst appeared in 1942 when, during the Second World War, there was a shortage of cream cardboard boxes and the supplier had to use what he had left, which was orange.
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