Today I am flying back home to spend
Christmas with my parents. I will not have so much of an internet access and it
was important for me to finish this year with books that I find inspirational
and important for many reasons. The order is incidental.
In the world,
which is all about social media and texting, most of us need the advice on
etiquette, especially from the world-renowned etiquette expert Dorothea
Johnson and her uber cool granddaughter, Liv Tyler.
Memoir of an
early childhood and youth of a great actress. Living with her glamorous and
artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid on a horse, Huston was
raised on an Irish estate to which—between movies—her father brought his array
of extraordinary friends, from Carson McCullers and John Steinbeck to Peter
O’Toole and Marlon Brando.
3.
The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual
Persuasion by Postrel, Virginia This is the very first book to
explain what glamour really is—not just style or a personal quality but a
phenomenon that reveals our inner lives and shapes our decisions, large and
small. It is my flight Kindle read;).
Recently
most known for her bad temper and hanging out with influential Russian money
makers, Naomi Campbell changed the world perception of a model. The pictures in
the book were taken by such big names as Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Richard
Avedon, Steven Klein, Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel and more.
Created by Kate Moss
herself, in collaboration with creative director Fabien Baron, Jess Hallett,
and Jefferson Hack, this book is a highly personal retrospective of Kate Moss’s
career, tracing her evolution from “new girl with potential” to one of the most
iconic models of all time.
Obsessive
Creative takes you behind the scenes of the world of high fashion, from the
studio where Collette's sublimely beautiful clothes are made, to backstage at
the Paris shows, from the red carpet to a beading factory in India.
7. The Life of a Bowerbird: Creating Beautiful Interiors with
the Things You Collect by Sibella Court
Last but not
least, terrific interior design inspiration book.
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