Reviews for Glamour Girls

The average rating for Glamour Girls based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-05-27 00:00:00 Leah Garland Celebrated photographer Patrick McMullan captures everything from the sophisticated galas of New York society to the flirty parties of young Hollywood stars. Showcasing women from around the world at the most famous'and infamous'of events, Glamour Girls contains over 1,000 color photographs spanning McMullan's entire career. Among the women pictured are: Gwyneth Paltrow, Ivana Trump, Heidi Klum, Christy Turlington, Stephanie Seymour, Kimora Lee Simmons, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Aniston, Raquel Welch, Donatella Versace, Chloe Sevigny, Nicole Kidman, Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, and many others. In latter part of this book, McMullan also showed some of royal family members, aristocrats and creme de la creme of New York society, not necessarily celebrities.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-10-24 00:00:00 Martin Rizzo Great reflection on the role of fashion in the society and their interconnections. My favourite essay from this book is "From Gemstone to Jewellery". The best way to describe this book is to provide few excerpts: "System is completely different from gestalt; it is essentially defined by normative links which justify, oblige, prohibit, tolerate, in a word control the arrangement of garments on a concrete wearer who is identified in their social and historical place: it is a value." "Dress is, in the fullest sense, a ´social model´, a more or less standardized picture of expected collective behaviour; and it is essentially at this level that it has meaning." "So why in our world has the gemstone been associated so constantly with a woman, her powers and her evil spells? It is because the husband very quickly delegated to his wife the job of showing off his own wealth (certain sociologists use this to explain the origins of fashion): the wife provides poetic proof of the wealth and power of the husband." "The superiority of status, which for democratic reasons could no longer be advertised, was hidden and sublimated beneath a new value: taste, or better still, as the word is appropriately ambiguous, distinction."