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By Joan Juliet Buck
From Joan Juliet dollar, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris comes her impressive, compulsively readable memoir: a wonderful account of 4 many years spent within the artistic center of London, manhattan, la, and Paris, chronicling her quest to find the adaptation among glitter and gold, phantasm and truth, and what appears like happiness from the object itself.
Born right into a international of make-believe because the daughter of a larger-than-life movie manufacturer, Joan Juliet Buck's formative years used to be a whirlwind of recognized faces, ever-changing domestic addresses, and a fascination with the glossy surfaces of items. while Joan grew to become the 1st and merely American ever to fill Vogue Paris's coveted place of Editor in leader, a "figurehead within the cult of style and beauty," she had the ability to recreate for her getting older father, now a widower, the lifestyles he'd loved in the course of his high-flying years, a most appropriate phantasm of glamorous extra which could no longer be sustained indefinitely.
Joan's...