SOPHIA STYLE

by Deirdre Donohue

Book Overview

Celebrate the unforgettable style of one of the world's most beautiful women. With an image both elusive and enduring, Sophia Loren--now in her mid-sixties--remains glamorous, sexy, poised, gifted... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: 0760758638
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Bella Bella Bella!!!

Now around 70, Sophia Loren is still the world's most beautiful woman. Her exquisite poised classic charm is the one of a kind that only comes every few centuries. This book celebrates the distinctive beauty and style that has stayed alluring for half a century. Loren is a stand out still. In a world that only sees beauty as a physical expression ... Loren and her contemporaries (Catherine Deneuve, Sophie Marceau, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, etc)tell us that it is much much more. There is a priceless asset in poise, character, dignity, class, that no amount of plastic surgery can compensate for. Beauty is not about not making mistakes but it is about having the kind of self-respect to come out of it a stronger, better person. For all her childhood ostracism of being illigetimate in Catholic Italy during its facist phase, Loren has blossomed and risen above her early roots. One has to admire that despite an international sophisticated glamorous acting career ... Loren has managed to stay married for close to 50 years to her one and only spouse, and took her role as a mother seriously to her two sons. Rather than delegate motherhood to nannies and assistants, Loren made her family, in particular her children, a top priority. You have to respect that and see that beauty truly is what beauty does.

Classic Beauty is something one is born with...

...Grace, Dignity and Humility is what separates one from everyone else. My own words after meeting andobserving the Legendary Icon through the years. "Sophia Style" captures many wonderful, minute flashes of herincredible life experiences, along with the many era's that have made her who she is today. "Sophia Style" quiteadequately displays her Grace, Dignity, Humility, Class and Awesome Exotic Beauty. Beauty that exudesdeep from within, through the awesome one of a kind exotic Mediterranean bone structure. And beyond theageless olive complection and voluptuous features, casting a bright aura far ahead of her. She may be, for themost part, reserved and to herself, but rises to the occasion of most gracious hospitality without hesitation. Shehas no enemies and lives outside the hullabaloo of Hollywood amidst horse ranches in a tree shrouded Garden ofEden she calls "La Concordia." In just observing her relationship and interaction with her son Edoardo, I have learned what it is like to not onlytruly be a parent, but a spiritual partner who actively participates in my children's lives. I received "Sophia Style" a couple of years ago, after first meeting her some decades ago. In dealing with adevastation within my own life, it was her words, wisdom and character that got me through when my own familyfailed me. Sometimes I kept her book near me to remind me to keep rising above it all. It was acting with Grace,Dignity and Humility that was inspired by her, that kept me from making incredibly horrible rash decisions. At her Lifetime Achievement Awards in 1994, I insisted that she work again. She grasped me with bothhands in an incredible, yet most gracious way. And worked again she has, with five films since, including onewritten and directed by Edoardo. And of course this book by Deirdre Donahue. Hopefully, there'll be manymore films, books and other treasuresto follow. Viva La Bella Donna!!Affezionatissimo,Guiseppe (Peppi) Turco

Beautiful Sophia Through The Years!

Sophia Loren is so incredibly beautiful that Deirdre Donohue almost had to create this book in order to celebrate it! From her humble Italian beginnings to her mature beauty of today, there are photographs of her through it all, plus text to tell about her colorful life. My favorite photos are: Diva (p. 70) intersection of image (p. 88), at the Oscars (p. 96) and 1964 color photo (p. 109). If you love Sophia, do not miss "Sophia Style"!

Style + content

Wow! Stylish photography and unseen glimpses of an exceptional beauty with a thesis that holds it all together. Recommended as a gift, a read, an adornment...it will propel the uninitiated into the video store for a reassessment of the great Loren!