World In Vogue: People, Parties, Places

World In Vogue: People, Parties, Places synopsis

Trendsetters and newsmakers—actors, artists, models, first ladies, social figures—as they appeared in the pages ofVoguefrom the 1960s to 2009, captured by such photographers as Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Toni Frissell, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Annie Leibovitz. Here are the überglamorous weddings of Plum Sykes in Yorkshire, Lauren Davis in Cartagena, and Minnie Cushing to photographer Peter Beard in Newport; Truman Capote writing about cruising the Dalmatian Coast with Lee Radziwill and the Agnellis; Gloria Steinem reporting on the masked partygoers at the Black and White Ball for Katharine Graham in the Plaza Hotel; gardens around the world designed by Miranda Brooks; Valentino’s country estate outside Paris; the designers and movie stars at the annual Costume Institute party at the Metropolitan Museum; Mick Jagger and family in Mustique; Jacqueline Kennedy and Michelle Obama; Kate Moss, Angelina Jolie, Marlene Dietrich, Anjelica Huston, Nicole Kidman, Iman and David Bowie, Charlotte Rampling, and many more. Richly illustrated with 400 color and black-and-white photographs,The World in Vogueis a stunning look at more than six decades of portraits, houses, gardens, and parties of celebrated figures from many worlds.