The Glossy Years: Magazines, Museums and Selective Memoirs

About this book

Diana touched your elbow your arm covered your hand with hers. It was alluring. And she was disarmingly confiding. "Can I ask you something? Nicholas please be frank . . ." Over his 30-year career at Cond Nast Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to the blazing fury of Mohamed Al-Fayed his story is also the story of the people who populate the glamorous world of glossy magazines. With relish and astonishing candor he offers the inside scoop on Tina Brown and Anna Wintour David Bowie and Philip Green Kate Moss and Beyonce; on Margaret Thatchers clothes legacy and a surreal weekend away with Bob Geldof and William Hague. Cara Delevingne media tycoons Prime Ministers Princes Mayors and Maharajas all cross his path. His career in magazines straddles the glossies throughout their glorious zenithfrom the 1970s 1980s and 1990s to the digital iterations of the 21st century. Having cut his teeth on Tatler and as Editor-in-Chief of Harpers & Queen he became the Mr Big of glossy publishing for three decades. Packed with surprising and often hilarious anecdotes The Glossy Years also provides perceptive insight into the changing and treacherous worlds of fashion journalism museums and a whole sweep of British society. This is a rich honest witty and very personal memoir of a life splendidly lived.