The Glossy Years: Magazines, Museums and Selective Memoirs
Autor Nicholas Coleridgeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 sep 2019
'The most entertaining book of the year'SUNDAY TIMES
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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 thirty-year career at Condé 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 candour, he offers the inside scoop on Tina Brown and Anna Wintour, David Bowie and Philip Green, Kate Moss and Beyonce; on Margaret Thatcher's 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 zenith - from 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 Yearsalso 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.
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'An entertaining whirlwind'Evening Standard
'Gentle, jolly . . . Blissfully funny'Sunday Telegraph
'An irresistible read, hilarious, honest and insightful. I adored it'Tina Brown
'Sparkling'Spectator
'Forthright, witty and gossipy . . . a passion for glossy magazines shines through this effervescent memoir'Sunday Express
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241342879
ISBN-10: 0241342872
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Fig Tree
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241342872
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Fig Tree
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Nicholas
Coleridgehas
been
Managing
Director
of
British
Condé
Nast
and
President
of
Condé
Nast
International,
publisher
of
130
magazines
around
the
world,
includingVogueandVanity
Fair.Journalist,
editor,
magazine
executive,
author,
environmental
campaigner,
and
Chairman
of
the
Victoria
and
Albert
Museum
and
British
Fashion
Council,
he
has
for
three
decades
been
a
prevalent
figure
in
the
publishing
and
fashion
industries.
Nicholas
Coleridge
and
his
wife
live
in
London
and
Worcestershire.
They
have
four
children.
Recenzii
Coleridge
is
a
witty
writer
.
.
.
reading
this
book
is
like
sitting
next
to
a
sharp
but
generous-hearted
raconteurat
dinner
Hasbounding vitality, glorious zestand and anuplifting generosity of spirit. It isalways playful, sometimes hilarious - but above all it is wise
In these dark days of everlasting Brexit, Nicholas Coleridge'ssparklingmemoir is a welcome reminder that all is not gloom and doom.Witty, nimble and engaging, it iswonderfully entertaininganda marvellous slice of social history
Adeliciously moreishmemoir of the author'sglittering careerin magazine publishing.Like having a really good gossip over a glass of fizz with Evelyn Waugh.
Tittle-tattle, tiffs and titanic egos, this book has them all. A hugely entertaining read by the ultimate insider
Forthright, witty and gossipy . . . a passion for glossy magazines shines through this effervescent memoir
A Waugh-like whirlwind of eccentric characters, lavish parties and even a spell in a Sri Lankan jail. It was funny enough to excuse all the name-dropping
I truly think this is a brilliant book.laughed almost continuously
Beadyandslyly funny, my favourite bit concerns punctuation in the late Betty Kenward's society column. It's that kind of book
Gloriously funny, affectionate and well-written,his ear for how other people speak is mischievously spot-on andhis optimism is infectious
Worth every penny for names dropped, inside stories, expertise in how that world workedand, endearingly, how his happy marriage and family have too
The most entertaining book of the year
Anentertaining whirlwind
Gentle, jolly . . . Blissfully funny . . .One might wish to make people as happy, personally and professionally, as Coleridge has done - and will continue to do with this amusing book
Iadoredit. Coleridge has aWaugh-like eye for hilarious social nuanceand aHenry Jamesian ear for precision. He is both self-deprecating and shrewd as he regales us with hisrollicking rideas editor and tastemakerin the world of British glossy magazines: an irresistible read
The memoir of a ludicrously well-connected magazine impresario. Whimsical tales of Bob Geldof, William Hague, Princess Diana and George Osborne jostle with recollections of glitzy parties at castles and producing the Eton magazine with Craig Brown. It's gossipy good fun
Hasbounding vitality, glorious zestand and anuplifting generosity of spirit. It isalways playful, sometimes hilarious - but above all it is wise
In these dark days of everlasting Brexit, Nicholas Coleridge'ssparklingmemoir is a welcome reminder that all is not gloom and doom.Witty, nimble and engaging, it iswonderfully entertaininganda marvellous slice of social history
Adeliciously moreishmemoir of the author'sglittering careerin magazine publishing.Like having a really good gossip over a glass of fizz with Evelyn Waugh.
Tittle-tattle, tiffs and titanic egos, this book has them all. A hugely entertaining read by the ultimate insider
Forthright, witty and gossipy . . . a passion for glossy magazines shines through this effervescent memoir
A Waugh-like whirlwind of eccentric characters, lavish parties and even a spell in a Sri Lankan jail. It was funny enough to excuse all the name-dropping
I truly think this is a brilliant book.laughed almost continuously
Beadyandslyly funny, my favourite bit concerns punctuation in the late Betty Kenward's society column. It's that kind of book
Gloriously funny, affectionate and well-written,his ear for how other people speak is mischievously spot-on andhis optimism is infectious
Worth every penny for names dropped, inside stories, expertise in how that world workedand, endearingly, how his happy marriage and family have too
The most entertaining book of the year
Anentertaining whirlwind
Gentle, jolly . . . Blissfully funny . . .One might wish to make people as happy, personally and professionally, as Coleridge has done - and will continue to do with this amusing book
Iadoredit. Coleridge has aWaugh-like eye for hilarious social nuanceand aHenry Jamesian ear for precision. He is both self-deprecating and shrewd as he regales us with hisrollicking rideas editor and tastemakerin the world of British glossy magazines: an irresistible read
The memoir of a ludicrously well-connected magazine impresario. Whimsical tales of Bob Geldof, William Hague, Princess Diana and George Osborne jostle with recollections of glitzy parties at castles and producing the Eton magazine with Craig Brown. It's gossipy good fun