Cristobal Balenciaga was, by the account of his contemporaries, the best fashion designer of the last century. He was also notoriously private, nurturing an aura of mystery and shunning the concept of celebrity. Mary Blume’s…
Posts tagged Biography
All about Manson
Chances are you think of Charles Manson as Charles Manson: sprite-sized cult leader behind the murder of Sharon Tate and a handful of other socialites and common folk. Jeff Guinn’s biography of the media magnet,…
Much needed tarnishing of the halo
The older I get the more I truly believe ignorance is bliss, especially if you’re the type to put heroes on a pedestal. I am that type and while the crumbling of the pedestal is…
Did you know that DFW. . .
Reading DT Max’s biography of David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, turned me into a spouter of DFW factoids: “Did you know,” I wrote on a friend’s Facebook wall, “That Jonathan…
The bride wore green
Frances Osborne is fairly young when her mother tells her that Idina Sackville, Osborne’s great-grandmother, is not someone to be admired. The infamous Idina didn’t follow conventional rules, and Idina’s mother before that was a…