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Gilded Lili: Lili St Cyr and the Striptease Mystique
by stephanie-nolasco
Before Dita, Madonna, and Marilyn, there was Lili. More famous than pinup and bondage model Bettie Page in her day, Lili St. Cyr made stripping more glamorous than Hollywood ever could. Like a trained starlet… ...
Model, A Memoir
by Lisa Radon
It all became clear to me when a thirteen-year-old compatriot of mine pointed out that the publisher’s imprint on the book was the same as all of the candy-colored paperback summer novels she’d been reading. Until that moment, I was reading… ...
Fashion At The Edge
by Lisa Radon
In Fashion At The Edge, Caroline Evans looks at the experimental and the transgressive in fashion design, presentation, and photography in the 90s with a heavy dose of London. ...
Star Von Bunny – A Model Tale
by Davina Rodriguez
The life of an aspiring model is a difficult one to be sure. Having the right skin tone, being the right height,...
Parisiennes
by Lisa Radon
Look past the cover of Parisiennes, A Celebration of French Women, a large format coffee table book fronted by a photo of a trio of three gorgeous women… ...
The Fashion Designer Survival Guide: An Insider
by Lisa Radon
If you could sell good ideas, many of us would be rich. It’s getting the idea into object or working project that’s the trick. And when it comes to making a fashion business out of your unique aesthetic… ...
Paris Fashion, A Cultural History
by Lisa Radon
Designers at many of fashion’s most important houses may not be French, but the capital of the fashion world is still Paris. In spite of World War II, in spite of the rise of American… ...
Disco Years
by Lisa Radon
In these times when we’re gleefully remixing our retros, leggings (oh, and oversized shirts) which you’ll recall from the mid ’80s, ’60s a-line dresses ...
Against Fashion
by Lisa Radon
Sometimes we are so absorbed in our circumscribed worlds, dealing with daily questions of what, and who and how, that we are hard-pressed to take a step back and ask some good why’s. ...
The World In Vogue
by Lisa Radon
It’s not a new book. In fact, it’s a giant tome that’s more than forty years old. But it tells us how...