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Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
In February 2011, John Galliano, the lauded head of Christian Dior, imploded with a drunken, anti-Semitic public tirade. Exactly a year earlier, celebrated designer Alexander McQueen took his own life three weeks before his women’s wear show. Both were casualties of the war between art and commerce that has raged within fashion for the last two decades. In the mid-1990s, Galliano and McQueen arrived on the fashion scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with daring, sexy designs and theatrical fashion shows. They had similar backgrounds: sensitive, shy gay men raised in tough London neighborhoods, their love of fashion nurtured by their doting mothers. By 1997, each had landed a job as creative director for couture houses owned by French tycoon Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH. Galliano’s and McQueen’s work not only influenced fashion; their distinct styles were reflected across the media landscape. With their help, luxury fashion evolved from a clutch of small, family-owned businesses into a $280 billion-a-year global corporate industry. Executives pushed the designers to meet increasingly rapid deadlines. For both Galliano and McQueen, the pace was unsustainable. The same week that Galliano was fired, Forbes named Arnault the fourth richest man in the world. Two months later, in the wake of McQueen’s death, Kate Middleton wore a McQueen wedding gown, instantly making the house the world’s most famous fashion brand, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a wildly successful McQueen retrospective, cosponsored by the corporate owners of the McQueen brand. The corporations had won and the artists had lost. In her groundbreaking work, Gods and Kings, acclaimed journalist Dana Thomas tells the true story of McQueen and Galliano. In so doing, she reveals the relentless world of couture—and the price it demanded of the very ones who saved it.
Dana Lee Thomas (Author), Elizabeth Sastre (Narrator)
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Living Biographies of Famous Women
The individuals in this book who played important roles in history and cover a range of accomplishments are: Cleopatra, Theodora, Joan of Arc, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Christina, Madame de Maintenon, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony, Frances E. Willard, Catherine Breshkovsky, Sarah Berhardt, Isadora Duncan, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Jane Addams, Evangeline Booth, Helen Keller, and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek.
Dana Lee Thomas, Henry Thomas (Author), S. Patricia Bailey (Narrator)
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Living Biographies of Great Painters
Here are vivid stories of twenty painters who dreamed, struggled, and suffered so that they might give expression to their divine gifts: Giotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, El Greco, Diego Velázquez, William Hogarth, Reynolds, Joseph Turner, Goya, Jean Baptiste Corot, Jean François Millet, Van Gogh, Whistler, Renoir, Cézanne, and Winslow Homer.
Dana Lee Thomas, Henry Thomas (Author), Pat Bottino (Narrator)
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Living Biographies Of Great Philosophers
The twenty-one philosophical personalities who represent an adventure in thinking are: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Aquinas, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Emerson, Spencer, Nietzsche, William James, Henri-Louis Bergson, and Santayana.
Dana Lee Thomas, Henry Thomas (Author), Edward Lewis (Narrator)
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Living Biographies Of Religious Leaders
The great religious leaders whose lives and tenets are presented here are: Jesus Christ, Moses, Isaiah, Zoroaster, Buddha, Confucius, John the Baptist, Paul, Muhammad, Francis of Assisi, John Huss, Luther, Loyola, Calvin, George Fox, Swedenborg, Wesley, Brigham Young, Mary Baker Eddy, and Gandhi.
Dana Lee Thomas, Henry Thomas (Author), Nadia May, Nadia May (Narrator)
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Living Biographies of Great Philosophers
Every biography is a story of adventure. The energetic personalities of the world represent an adventure in living. The philosophical personalities, on the other hand, represent an adventure in thinking. And when we examine the lives of the philosophers, we find that the procession of a man's thoughts can be as exciting a spectacle as the pageantry of a man's deeds. The great thinkers introduced in this work include: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, Marcus Aurelius, Aquinas, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Emerson, Spencer, Nietzsche, William James, Bergson, and Santayana.
Dana Lee Thomas, Henry Thomas (Author), Edward Lewis (Narrator)
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Living Biographies of Famous Women
Each of the individuals featured in this book played an important role in history. Their accomplishments span a wide range of fields, from the literary and the political to the medical. They include Cleopatra; Theodora; Joan of Arc; Mary, Queen of Scots; Queen Christina; Madame de Maintenon; Charlotte Brontë; George Eliot; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Florence Nightingale; Susan B. Anthony; Frances E. Willard; Catherine Breshkovsky; Sarah Bernhardt; Isadora Duncan; Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Jane Addams; Evangeline Booth; Helen Keller; and Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
Dana Lee Thomas, Henry Thomas (Author), S. Patricia Bailey (Narrator)
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Living Biographies of Religious Leaders
This absorbing book presents the lives of twenty great founders and leading advocates of the world's foremost religions. Here are the historical facts and legends associated with these forceful personalities who have inspired and influenced humankind through the centuries. In the telling of these vivid and fascinating life stories, the authors have also simply and clearly outlined the principal teachings of each of the great religions. The book will give greater significance to the listener's own faith and a better understanding of the faith of others. The great religious leaders whose lives and tenets are presented here are: Jesus Christ, Moses, Isaiah, Zoroaster, Buddha, Confucius, John the Baptist, Paul, Muhammad, Francis of Assisi, John Huss, Luther, Loyola, Calvin, George Fox, Swedenborg, Wesley, Brigham Young, Mary Baker Eddy, and Gandhi.
Dana Lee Thomas, Henry Thomas (Author), Wanda Mccaddon (Narrator)
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