Harper's Bazaar Great Style: Best Ways to Update Your Look-Jenny Levin

One of the best style books ever!, November 29, 2007

By Marcy Gomez (Kansas City, USA) - See all my reviews


This is one of the best style/fashion books currently in publication and - trust me - I have looked. I am a big fan of Harper's Bazaar magazine, with its glossy spreads and entertaining, clever articles so this book was on my 'must have' list as soon as I discovered its pending publication in Amazon.

This book doesn't disappoint. Fans of magazines like In Style and People Stylewatch will love how this book blends a traditional style guide with the world of fashion and entertainment. Case in point, the Table of Contents covers the following:

Blood Sweat and Tears - Bruce Weber

Review
A celebration of fashion in all of its forms, ...highlights the photographers wit and imagination with pictures and journal entries. -- Harper's Bazaar, December 2005

A look at some of the season’s best: An evolutionary tale of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of fashion photography. -- Interview Magazine, December 2005

Blood Sweat and Tears is a stunning coffee-table tome of Bruce Weber’s most brilliant observations of fashion. -- Gotham Magazine, January 2006

30 Days of Fashion (A Collector's Portfolio by Mario Sorrenti)

Mario Sorrenti is making me a cappuccino. He has one of those push-button espresso makers that is supposed to ensure the perfect cup of coffee every time, but this machine’s a bit moody, he says, so he’s unsure of the outcome. That’s fine with him. Although he strives for a certain orchestrated control in his photography, he appreciates the element of chance whenever he creates. Right now his studio is uncharacteristically quiet. An assistant is repainting the well-scuffed shoot area industrial white, another comes in to discuss logistics for a location shoot that evening. Up on the wall of his studio are images for a planned exhibition in Beijing that is coinciding with the Olympics. “I am truly excited about the show, but they are censoring me like crazy,” he says. “So I am having difficulty believing it’s going to happen.” I notice a group of provocative but compellingly fashion shots put to the side. “I mean, do they know me? Have they seen my work?”



One of today’s most creatively charged, sought after and inspired fashion photographers, Mario Sorrenti signed his first contract with Harper’s BAZAAR at the maverick age of 21. His debut shoot for the magazine was with Kate Moss, his girlfriend at the time and someone he had been photographing just for himself (they met when they were both modeling). In fact, prior to his meeting at BAZAAR most of his work was purely personal, he says. The “Kate” shoot led to a two-career-making campaign for Calvin Klein. “Who will ever forget a naked Kate languidly lying on the sofa in that Obsession ad?” said BAZAAR’s Glenda Bailey years later in her April 2006 editor’s letter to an issue whose fashion well was shot entirely by Sorrenti.



Since his auspicious start, Sorrenti’s photographs have not only graced the pages of today’s leading fashion magazines and heightened the impact of more than a few memorable advertising campaigns, but they have also been exhibited as works of art in respected museums and galleries around the world. His photographs are uncompromising, inspired and often surprisingly personal despite their stated purpose as fashion illustration.

We sat down over cappuccinos (they turned out to be unsurprisingly well crafted) to discuss his photography, his inspirations and the impatience that keeps him from becoming a painter.
http://www.amazon.com/Fashion-Collectors-Portfolio-Mario-Sorrenti/dp/B001G11LOG/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236696123&sr=8-5

http://www.30daysoffashion.com/portfolio.html

Sirens - Marco Glaviano

Remember the Sirens, those nymphs who lured mariners to their deaths with sweet, irresistible singing? Marco Glaviano's nymphs lure not with song, but with sunlight on glistening (scantily clad) flesh, and poses that flaunt the female form in all its glory. The fashion photographer, perhaps best known for his Cindy Crawford and Paulina Porizkova swimsuit calendars, has assembled a medley of photographs spanning his 25-year career, many never before published. The gorgeous gala is highlighted with Glaviano's recollections.

The Pocket Stylist: Behind-the-Scenes Expertise from a Fashion Pro on Creating Your Own Look

From Publishers Weekly
With its text-heavy layout and somewhat confusing "body type" divisions, this fashion guidebook is somewhat more complicated than many of the other style books on the market. Dedicated readers, however, will learn a lot from Farr, a former fashion editor who's written for InStyle, People, Harper's Bazaar and other publications. Drawing upon her years of experience as a personal stylist, Farr teaches readers what to look for and what to avoid when clothes shopping, how to evaluate their wardrobes and why certain heel heights and shapes work better for different body types.

Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power

Product Description

Richard Avedon, America's preeminent portraitist and fashion photographer, photographed the many faces of politics throughout his career. Portraits of Power brings together Avedon's political portraits for the first time. Juxtaposing images of elite government, media and labor officials with counter-cultural activists, writers and artists, as well as ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it offers a five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of America's best-known artists. The book features several of Avedon's extended projects addressing these themes, including coverage of the civil rights debate in the early 1960s (published in 1964 in Nothing Personal); the American anti-war movement and the war in Vietnam from 1969-1971; portraits of the American power elite in 1976, produced for his groundbreaking Rolling Stone portfolio "The Family;" "Exiles: The Kennedy Court at the End of the American Century," a retrospective homage to the Camelot generation published in the New Yorker in 1993; and his final photo-essay, "Democracy," surveying the national mood during the politically fractious period prior to the 2004 presidential elections (published posthumously in the New Yorker in 2004).

Cristina Ferrare's Big Bowl of Love: Delight Family and Friends with More than 150 Simple, Fabulous Recipes - Cristina Ferrare (Boek)

About the Author
Cristina Ferrare is the author of two New York Times best-selling books and was featured in a series of cooking segments on Oprah.com entitled Cooking with Cristina. She began her career as a model that graced the covers of every major fashion magazine including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan, and was a spokesperson for Max Factor.

Harper's Bazaar: Greatest Hits - Glenda Bailey, Stephen Gan and Elizabeth Hummer (Boek)

Harper’s Bazaar is America’s longest-running fashion magazine, revered for its style-setting contributions to fashion, photography, and graphic design. Under the direction of Glenda Bailey in this decade, the magazine has maintained its position as a prominent cultural icon. Bailey is known for commissioning dazzling visual features that frame fashion in the context of contemporary pop culture and aesthetics. Shot by well-known photographers and featuring supermodels and supercelebrities, Bazaar’s fashion photography is always beautiful—and entertaining. Harper’s Bazaar: Greatest Hits is a collection of more than 300 photographs that chronicle the best fashion of our time. A celebration of fashion, a romp through a riotous and eventful decade, and a banquet of contemporary imagery, Harper’s Bazaar: Greatest Hits is also a glamorous object in itself.

Praise for Harper's Bazaar

“So if you love pop culture and you love fashion, you'll want to pick up a copy of Harper’s Bazaar: Greatest Hits, a new book that’s packed with both.”
— www.Cosmopolitan.com

“The images, taken by some of the world’s greatest photographers, are awe-inspiring.”
—ARTINFO

“It’s been 10 years since editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey took the reins at Harper’s Bazaar, and the magazine is celebrating the milestone with a splashy coffee table book. Harper’s Bazaar: Greatest Hits (Abrams) illustrates Bailey and creative director Stephen Gan’s tenure through more than 300 colorful images, organized chronologically. The mag’s memorable moments also include essays from luminaries like Patti Smith and our own Arianna Huffington, who wrote about the politics of fashion prior to the 2008 presidential election.”
— www.Stylelist.com

“This book is a fashion lover’s dream.”
— www.WhoWhatWear.com

http://www.amazon.com/Harpers-Bazaar-Greatest-Glenda-Bailey/dp/1419700707/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321553759&sr=1-1

Harper's Bazaar Fashion: Your Guide to Personal Style by Lisa Armstrong and Meenal Mistry (Boek)

With nearly three million sophisticated readers, Harper's Bazaar has an audience with a well-honed eye for style. That's why the magazine's newest guide will quickly become the must-have accessory for fashion-conscious women everywhere.
Through fabulous photos-including a gallery of gorgeous celebrity shots, from Kate Moss to Michelle Obama-Harper's Bazaar Fashion helps readers express their personality, create a “uniform” they can build on, and choose the right pieces to put a distinctive stamp on their wardrobe. Harper's Bazaar Fashion both inspires by exploring iconic moments in the history of personal style and instructs by offering the rules of dressing for every occasion from the office to an island getaway.