The World in Vogue: People Parties Places (Vogue Lifestyle Series)

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From celebrated actors and models to artists and First Ladies this stunning collection showcases 300 photos of social figures around the world drawing on stories from the pages of Vogue as well as never-before-published images by iconic photographers. Here are the glamorous weddings of Plum Sykes in Yorkshire Lauren Davis in Cartagena and Minnie Cushing in Newport; Truman Capote writing about cruising the Yugoslavian coast with Lee Radziwill Luciana Pignatelli and the Agnellis; gardens from East Hampton to Corfu designed by landscape architect Miranda Brooks; Ins de La Fressanges apartment in Paris; Gloria Steinem reporting on the 540 masked partygoers at the Black and White Ball Truman Capote threw for Katharine Graham at the Plaza hotel; the gardens of Valentinos seventeenth-century Chteau de Wideville outside Paris; the designers the best-dressed and the stars at the annual Costume Institute party at the Metropolitan Museum; Mick Jagger and his family in Mustique; Jacqueline Kennedy and Michelle Obama; Kate Moss Madonna Angelina Jolie Cate Blanchett Ali MacGraw Anjelica Huston Nicole Kidman Cher Iman and David Bowie Penlope Cruz Charlotte Rampling and many more. These trendsetters and newsmakers are captured by such famous photographers as Cecil Beaton Jonathan Becker Eric Boman Horst P. Horst Edward Steichen Irving Penn Richard Avedon Franois Halard Helmut Newton Stephen Meisel Snowdon Toni Frissell Bruce Weber Herb Ritts and Annie Leibovitz. Not only did these photographers take dazzling portraitsin studios or on locationthat caught these iconic figures in classic playful or dramatic moments but they also documented their parties weddings houses and gardens. Richly illustrated in black-and-white and color The World in Vogue: People Parties Places is a stunning look at portraits houses gardens and parties of celebrated figures from many worlds.