Jackie Style

Jackie Style
by Valentino

Jackie Style
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Book Summary Information

Author: Valentino
Brand: Smithsonian
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-04-24
ISBN: 0060199520
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: It Books
Product features:
  • One hundred rare color and black-and-white photographs and sketches, never-before-published personal letters, memos and essays recreate a compelling narrative of Jackie?s extraordinary private and public life
  • Informed by original interviews with designers Valentino, Givenchy, Manolo Blahnik and Oleg Cassini; friends, C
  • Z
  • Guest, George Plimpton and John Loring; and family members Joan Kennedy, Hugh D
  • Auchincloss and John Davis

Book Reviews of Jackie Style

Book Review: OVERPRICED and DULL, DULL, DULL a COMPLETE WASTE of TIME...
Summary: 1 Stars

Beginning with the BORING Mark Shaw Official White House photograph chosen for the cover of this book, it was clear that this book would be a mere regurgetation of facts about Mrs. Onassis culled from the same old, same old tedious sources, which, after Valentino's introduction, suffice to say, was all downhill. Purporting to be a book devoted to Mrs. Onassis' style, I kept waiting for it to begin, which it NEVER did...instead, we are "treated" to Ms. Keogh's interpretation of some genuine facts, along with the usual misinterpretations, gossip, speculation, pop-psychology babble, interjected here and there with the odd statement of those Mrs. Onassis counted as supposed friends or what have you, often presented as an "interview" conducted especially for this book, more like the typical "soundbite" to which modern pop biography is routinely subjected. The editorial content of this book is more or less a in the genre of the High School Term-Paper and was a bore from beginning to end...no revelations or anything insightful found here, at all.

Equally disappointing to me was her absurdly limited use of widely seen images of Mrs. Onassis, who for thirty-five (35) years of her life, particularly with John F. Kennedy's ascendancy to The White House, remained THE most famous woman in the world, (a full generation before Diana, Princess of Wales)begging the question, with all of the hordes of photographers stalking Mrs. Onassis throughout her adult life, WHERE ARE THE PHOTOGRAPHS, did all the photographers participate in a bonfire somewhere???!!! For goodness sakes, Ron Galella, who stalked her for years, published a book of his select images of her in 1974. To this end it is odd when Ms. Keogh herself makes mention of Mrs. Onassis's most famous woman in the world status, yet serves-up such banal use of imagery for public consumption, one can't help but think it was just the compensation she would recieve on the wave of her similar book devoted to Audrey Hepburn. Skip this one folks, there are better books devoted to her style, some old and out of print, while others quite recent, such as "Jacqueline Kennedy In The White house" a paperback from 1963; "The Kennedy White House Parties" by Anne Lincoln, published by Viking in 1967; 'my Life With Jacqueline Kennedy", by her former Secretary, Mary B. Gallagher, 1969; "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years" the ONLY book published largely from Mrs. Onassis's recollections and direction, by Mary V. R. Thayer, published in 1971 by Little Brown & Co; "A Thousand Days of Magic: Dressing Jacqueline Kennedy for The White House" by her Official Couturier, Oleg Cassini; "In The Kennedy Style", by her former Social Secretary, Letitia Baldridge; and this year's two (2) better volumes..."Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years" the catalogue for the current exhibition mounted by the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in conjunction with The John F. Kennedy Library; and the just released "Jackie: The Clothes of Camelot" by Jay Mulvaney a book that is just plain fun, appealing, and visually enjoyable, if not as thorough as one might have hoped, but his enthusiasm for his subject along with his sense-of-humour, make this the missing link so obviously lacking within "Jackie Style"!!!! Wait for "Jackie Style" to hit the bargain stacks, I wish she had compensated me for reading it!!!

Summary of Jackie Style

From the author of the bestselling Audrey Style

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was known by many names, but to us, she is Jackie. And whether she liked it or not, she was, and still is, the most famous woman in the world.

"No one else looked like her, spoke like her, wrote like her, or was so original in the way she did things," said her brother-in-law Senator Edward Kennedy. Her style -- what made her Jackie -- has been emulated, imitated, even occasionally reviled, but never fully examined. For the first time, this biography details the singular life that made Jackie an icon and contributed so greatly to her enduring appeal. Drawing on original interviews with Valentino, Hubert de Givenchy, Manolo Blahnik, and Oleg Cassini, as well as close friends C. Z. Guest, George Plimpton, and John Loring, and family members such as Joan Kennedy, Hugh D. Auchincloss, and John Davis, this compelling volume brings to life the private Jackie her family and friends loved.

With one hundred rare color and black-and-white photographs and sketches, and never-before-published personal letters, memos, and essays, Jackie Style re-creates not only Jackie's extraordinary history -- fashion being just one part of it -- but the world she came from, the White House she revived, the husband and children she adored, the causes she supported, and, finally, the life she chose to lead.

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