Posts tagged Biography

‘Master Of Us All’

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…

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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,…

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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…

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Vamp

As a youth, my bedroom walls were covered with posters, a lot of them from the old movie classics – “Frankenstein, Wolfman, Dracula, etc. (I was a preteen – cut me some slack). But my…

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