Иэн Келли — новинки

Автобиография Вивьен Вествуд, записанная Иэном Келли и дополненная воспоминаниями родных и друзей королевы панка, — захватывающая история талантливой женщины с сильным характером, пробившей себе дорогу к славе. Она увлекалась роком, создала панк, над ней смеялись журналисты, ее оскорбляли прохожие, когда она появлялась на улице в своих экстравагантных нарядах. Вивьен намного опередила свое время. Она трудилась до изнеможения, построила гигантскую империю и поднялась на вершину модного Олимпа. Ее коллекции стали классикой и образцом для будущих дизайнеров. Вивьен любит жизнь и по-прежнему творит, восхищая современников своими работами.

Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true living legend. Her career has successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world.
For the first and only time, Vivienne Westwood has written a personal memoir, collaborating with award-winning biographer Ian Kelly, to describe the events, people and ideas that have shaped her extraordinary life. Told in all its glamour and glory, and with her unique voice, unexpected perspective and passionate honesty, this is her story.
For the first and only time, she is both writing and collaborating on a unique personal memoir and authorised biography: partly her own voice, partly through contributions from her vast network of friends, family and associates. Ian Kelly (award-winning biographer of, amongst others, fashion maverick Beau Brummell and the original self-publicist, Giacomo Casanova) brings the insights of a historian and friend of Vivienne to the life and works of one of the major influences of our age in this wonderful, insightful collaboration.

Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true living legend. Her career has successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. For the first and only time, Vivienne Westwood has written a personal memoir, collaborating with award-winning biographer Ian Kelly, to describe the events, people and ideas that have shaped her extraordinary life. Told in all its glamour and glory, and with her unique voice, unexpected perspective and passionate honesty, this is her story.

Личность Джакомо Казановы была и остается загадкой, тревожащей умы историков и биографов. Кто он? Один из многочисленных авантюристов XVIII века? Тайный информатор правителей? Мошенник, чей талант граничил с гениальностью? Бонвиван и ловелас? Идеальный любовник? Великолепный литературный мистификатор, знаменитые "Мемуары" которого не имеют ничего общего с реальностью?
Современные историки до сих пор не могут прийти к единому мнению об этом легендарном человеке.
Иен Келли использовал в своей книге множество неопубликованных ранее материалов - от протоколов венецианской инквизиции до писем самого Казановы - и эти документальные свидетельства позволят читателям по-новому взглянуть на жизнь загадочного итальянца.

Личность Джакомо Казановы была и остается загадкой, тревожащей умы историков и биографов. Кто он? Один из многочисленных авантюристов XVIII века? Тайный информатор правителей? Мошенник, чей талант граничил с гениальностью? Бонвиван и ловелас? Идеальный любовник? Великолепный литературный мистификатор, знаменитые "Мемуары" которого не имеют ничего общего с реальностью?
Современные историки до сих пор не могут прийти к единому мнению об этом легендарном человеке.
Иен Келли использовал в своей книге множество неопубликованных ранее материалов - от протоколов венецианской инквизиции до писем самого Казановы - и эти документальные свидетельства позволят читателям по-новому взглянуть на жизнь загадочного итальянца.

Pb"If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable."P#151; Beau Brummell/bPLong before tabloids and television, Beau Brummell was the first person famous for being famous, the male socialite of his time, the first metrosexual #151; 200 years before the word was conceived. His name has become synonymous with wit, profligacy, fine tailoring, and fashion. A style pundit, Brummell was singly responsible for changing forever the way men dress #151; inventing, in effect, the suit.PBrummell cut a dramatic swath through British society, from his early years as a favorite of the Prince of Wales and an arbiter of taste in the Age of Elegance, to his precipitous fall into poverty, incarceration, and madness. Brummell created the blueprint for celebrity crash and burn, falling dramatically out of favor and spending his last years in a hellish asylum. For nearly two decades, Brummell ruled over the tastes and pursuits of the well heeled and influential, and for almost as long, lived in penury and exile.PWith vivid prose, critically acclaimed biographer Ian Kelly unlocks the glittering, turbulent world of late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century London #151; the first truly modern metropolis#58; venal, fashion-and-celebrity obsessed, self-centered and self-doubting #151; through the life of one of its greatest heroes and most tragic victims. Brummell personified London's West End, where a new style of masculinity and modern men's fashion were first defined.PBrummell was the leading Casanova and elusive bachelor of his time, appealing to both men and women of his society. The man Lord Byron once claimedwas more important than Napoleon, Brummell was the ultimate cosmopolitan man. "Toyboy" to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and leader of playboys including the eventual king of England, Brummell inspired Pushkin to write iEugene Onegin/i, and Byron to write iDon Juan/i, and he influenced others from Oscar Wilde to Coco Chanel.PThrough love letters, historical records, and poems, Kelly reveals the man inside the suit, unlocking the scandalous behavior of London's high society while illuminating Brummell's enigmatic life in the colorful, tumultuous West End. A rare rendering of an era filled with excess, scandal, promiscuity, opulence, and luxury, iBeau Brummell/i is the first comprehensive view of an elegant and ultimately tragic figure whose influence continues to this day.br

"Cuisinier, architect, and one of the most prolific writers of the 19th century, Carême was the founder of a classic cuisine that would influence generations of chefs. In this well-researched book, Ian Kelly deftly recounts the exploits of this remarkable man." ―JACQUES PÉPIN

Aunique feast of biography and Regency cookbook, Cooking for Kings takes readers on a chef's tour of the palaces of Europe in the ultimate age of culinary indulgence.

Drawing on the legendary cook's rich memoirs, Ian Kelly traces Antonin Carême's meteoric rise from Paris orphan to international celebrity and provides a dramatic below-stairs perspective on one of the most momentous, and sensuous, periods in European history―First Empire Paris, Georgian England, and the Russia of War and Peace.

Carême had an unfailing ability to cook for the right people in the right place at the right time. He knew the favorite dishes of King George IV, the Rothschilds and the Romanovs; he knew Napoleon's fast-food requirements, and why Empress Josephine suffered halitosis.

Carême's recipes still grace the tables of restaurants the world over. Now classics of French cuisine, created for, and named after, the kings and queens for whom he worked, they are featured throughout this captivating biography. In the phrase first coined by Carême, "You can try them yourself."

Автобиография Вивьен Вествуд, записанная Иэном Келли и дополненная воспоминаниями родных и друзей королевы панка, – захватывающая история талантливой женщины с сильным характером, пробившей себе дорогу к славе. Она увлекалась роком, создала панк, над ней смеялись журналисты, ее оскорбляли прохожие, когда она появлялась на улице в своих экстравагантных нарядах. Вивьен намного опередила свое время. Она трудилась до изнеможения, построила гигантскую империю и поднялась на вершину модного Олимпа. Ее коллекции стали классикой и образцом для будущих дизайнеров. Вивьен любит жизнь и по-прежнему творит, восхищая современников своими работами.