Looking for Jackie: American Fashion Icons

by Kathleen Craughwell-Varda

Book Overview

From Dolly Madison to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, more than 175 color and b & w photos reveal the fascinating fashion world of women who defined American style. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688167268
• ISBN13: 9780688167264
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.4" x 12.8"

Customer Reviews

fascinating & informative

Ms.Varda's book is one of the most beautiful books on fashion I've ever beheld. The essays on women, from Betsy Bonaparte to Alice Roosevelt, are fascinating and elegantly written. The illustrations are gorgeous(full-page facsimiles of paintings,wonderful photographs).This would make a fantastic gift for anyone interested in women's studies, as well as fashion.

A Veritable Plethora of Photographic Progression

After reading this book, I feel that I have a better understanding of the complexities surrounding the female icon, whether it be modern,victorian, or beyond. Craughwell-Varda tapped into a well that until now, I did not appreciate. A wonderful book, with spectacular illustrations.

Hip look at the history of chic in the U.S.

Using glamorous photos, paintings, letters and anecdotes, Craughwell-Varda has turned out a winner of a book on American fashion icons: Jackie, Dolley Madison, the Duchess of Windsor. The author deftly mixes juicy details-Julia Gardener Tyler was a shopaholic-with intellectual discourse on how the way these women dressed changed politics, movies and fashion. A great gift for your favorite fashionista, and a coffee-table book that shows brains as well as beauties.