The Power of Style, Signed to Betsy Bloomingdale
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[Signed to Betsy Bloomingdale] Tapert, Annette. The Power of Style. First Edition. 1994. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. This copy is inscribed, “November 2, 1994, For Betsy, A Great woman of style, Best wishes, Annette Tapert.” Co-written with Diana Edkins.
The Los Angeles grand dame Betsy Bloomingdale was indeed a woman of great style, much admired as a delightful hostess and a longstanding member of the Best Dressed List. Even so, what an accolade for her to be compared to the women featured in this best-selling book from the mid-nineties. It broke through the popular culture barrier, introducing the great 20th Century tastemakers to a younger and appreciative audience. The book features heiresses like Daisy Fellowes and Millicent Rogers but more typical are the women whose beauty and style practically demanded that they marry into great fortunes—Babe Paley, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Pauline de Rothschild. Rounding out the group are those whose energy and creativity paid their own way—Diana Vreeland, Coco Chanel, and Elsie de Wolfe. The book’s size is that sweet spot between a reading book and a monograph, and it is filled with portraiture and photographic illustration alongside the text.
“Style, we suspect, is a subject with endless allure precisely because it can’t be neatly defined. In its mystery lies its power.”
--Annette Tapert
The Los Angeles grand dame Betsy Bloomingdale was indeed a woman of great style, much admired as a delightful hostess and a longstanding member of the Best Dressed List. Even so, what an accolade for her to be compared to the women featured in this best-selling book from the mid-nineties. It broke through the popular culture barrier, introducing the great 20th Century tastemakers to a younger and appreciative audience. The book features heiresses like Daisy Fellowes and Millicent Rogers but more typical are the women whose beauty and style practically demanded that they marry into great fortunes—Babe Paley, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Pauline de Rothschild. Rounding out the group are those whose energy and creativity paid their own way—Diana Vreeland, Coco Chanel, and Elsie de Wolfe. The book’s size is that sweet spot between a reading book and a monograph, and it is filled with portraiture and photographic illustration alongside the text.
“Style, we suspect, is a subject with endless allure precisely because it can’t be neatly defined. In its mystery lies its power.”
--Annette Tapert
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