Fashionista : a century of style icons /
Simone Werle ; [translated from the German by Paul Aston].
- New York : Prestel, c2009.
- 173 p. : ports. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
The classics Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ; The Duchess of Windsor ; Audrey Hepburn ; Raia Al-Abdullah of Jordan ; Grace Kelly ; Babe Paley ; Gloria Guinness ; Slim Keith ; C.Z. Guest ; Carolina Herrera -- The it girls : Edie Sedgwick ; Chloë Sevigny ; Louise Brooks ; Bianca Jagger ; Siena Miller ; Marchesa Luisa Casati ; Twiggy ; Kate Moss ; Mary Quint -- The bombshells : Marilyn Monroe ; Brigitte Bardot ; Gwen Stefani -- The modernists : Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel ; Sofia Coppola ; Jil Sander ; Katherine Hepburn ; Carolyn Bessette Kennedy -- The artists : Josephine Baker ; Elsa Schiapelli ; Frida Kahlo -- The divas : Joan Crawford ; Dita von Tesse ; Marlene Dietrich ; Diana, Princess of Wales ; Scarlett Johansson ; Suzanne Lenglen -- The eccentrics : Anna Piaggi : Björk ; Isabella Blow ; Diana Vreeland ; Grace Jones -- The candy girls : Carrie Bradshaw ; Kylie Minogue ; Rachel Zoe -- The rebels : Agyness Deyn ; Gloria von Thurm und Taxis ; Courtney Love ; Vivienne Westwood ; Any Winehouse -- The chameleon : Madonna.
Whether radiantly glamorous, superbly farouche, or coolly minimalist-- what fashionistas wear today fills the world's closets tomorrow. The leading fashion icons of the last hundred years are presented in glorious detail.