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Article: The Style-Setters
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 24, 1994
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People of wealth, fame and wit set the styles of the 20th
century. Reviewer Nancy L. Ross looks at the newest books about
them.
THE POWER OF STYLE
By Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins
Crown Publishers, 224 pp., $40
The names of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Coco Chanel and the
Duchess of Windsor are legendary. But how many people today
recognize Rita Lydig, Millicent Rogers and Mona Bismark? They share
the honor of being among the women chosen as defining the art of
living well. That is, those whose clothes, jewels, homes and
entertaining made them famous - or infamous.
To winnow 100 candidates to just 14, writer Tapert and
photographic editor Edkins sought images of the women in ...