Strapless

Author: Deborah Davis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440628181
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to paint her; the two must have recognized in each other a like-minded hunger for fame. Unveiled at the 1884 Paris Salon, Gautreau's portrait generated the attention she craved-but it led to infamy rather than stardom. Sargent had painted one strap of Gautreau's dress dangling from her shoulder, suggesting either the prelude to or the aftermath of sex. Her reputation irreparably damaged, Gautreau retired from public life, destroying all the mirrors in her home. Drawing on documents from private collections and other previously unexamined materials, and featuring a cast of characters including Oscar Wilde and Richard Wagner, Strapless is a tale of art and celebrity, obsession and betrayal.

STRAPLESS

Author: Leigh Riker
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459248554
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
With only 207 more shopping days until thirty, Darcie Elizabeth Baxter is searching for…an office with a door on it, a great apartment in Manhattan and a man who’s interested in commitment. Instead, she’s been spending her days battling her co-workers at Wunderthings Lingerie International and her nights trying to avoid her grandmother’s possessed cat. And though she gets a great employee discount, she hasn’t needed it since…well, it’s been a while. Even her grandmother has a more active social life. So when a chance to go to Sydney to open up a new lingerie store lands in Darcie’s lap, she jumps at it. Australia is incredible, and so is Dylan Rafferty, the Aussie sheep rancher she falls into bed with. But now that she’s met a man capable of giving her multiple orgasms and multiple laughs, Darcie bristles at his fantasy of her barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen, no less. Should she marry him, or send him back to the set of The Donna Reed Show? Caught between romance and reality, Darcie vows to define life, and happiness, her own way—even if that means risking it all and going strapless!

1,000 Poses in Fashion

Author: Chidy Wayne
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 161060153X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Ambiguous, sensual, coquette, and suggestive: the one thousand fashion drawing poses in this book are a deep journey into the wealth of possibilities for illustrating male and female bodies, and designersâ€™ capacity to transmit sensations with an ever so slight flick of the wrist. 1,000 Poses in Fashion compiles all the usual fashion poses and illustrated features, represented in full color, supplemented by the many variations of each pose, in black and white. The poses show the effects of the way in which the clothes sit on the models, guiding the reader in aspects such as how to give proportion or volume to a garment. 1,000 Poses in Fashion is an essential reference for photographers, fashion designers, illustrators, models, and art directors who are interested in corporal expression in relation to fashion.

That Strapless Bra in Heaven

Author: Sarah Sarai
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781950462209
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
That Strapless Bra holds up Sarah Sarai as a keen observer of the world. With wit and sardonic reflections, Sarai brings poems that fuel a long ride. Julie R. Enszer, author of Avowed, Lilith's Demons, Sisterhood, and editor of Sinister Wisdom If it is to be of any value / a story will be misunderstood" - that's Sarah Sarai in That Strapless Bra in Heaven. A visionary who can't quite keep a straight face, a prophet quicker to laughter than judgment, Sarai is a virtuoso of the one-liner - "too much is as it seems" - but she works with a vast cultural canvas, and sorrow and a thirst for the real underlie, the scintillating eloquence. Dante's journey is a dream, Stalin's famine never ends, Dido weeps in the city she built, humans wander through a world of staggering beauty never quite knowing how to love each other: "What do monkeys worry about? / Our imaginations grown dim?" The Strapless Bra in Heaven is a roller coaster, but it's grounded in what we once called wisdom. Sarai's new book is a thrilling read. D. Nurkse, author of Love in the Last Days: After Tristan and Iseu "light... in the unnavigable dead end" / these poems are as truthful as Sarah herself & a bit surreal / they are both weighty & cunning // unmask gender / benders / dilemmas & tyrants / nasty politics & social disgrace in all areas & eras often merging them while encompassing & compressing the personal & objective past & future with the present. "You dreamed you were a prophet... You awoke an anarchist... ready to kill" / Sarah sorts out socio-political angst / trickery & self-righteous humanism / while tackling that "mountain pass from child / hood to the freeing squalor..." "Reader, if you were seam... I'd take you out anywhere..." / "you are the first line of this poem... this poem exists for you..." / "you're not dead you're middle aged..." / "I say good riddance... though I'll miss myself..." these poems reveal, as Sarah puts it, "the artist's confidence to create celestial buoyancy..." / wake up, sleeper. at times biblical / never preachy. read them & weep / laugh / ponder. i wish you more than luck, Sarah. i wish you much success. Steve Dalachinsky is author of where night and day become one: the french poems, 1983 - 2017. He received a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.

Easy

Author: Emma Gold
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9780758203892
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
A rollicking and raucous first-person tale details a young woman's quest for Mr. Right and all that can go wrong in the search for the perfect sexual relationship. Reprint.

A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown, and Other Essays for a Scientific Age

Author: Robert Allen Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description

In Her Strapless Dresses

Author: Lily Brett
Publisher: Picador
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
The fifth collection of poetry from this celebrated author. Her previous volumes of poetry include 'Poland and Other Poems', 'After the War', 'Unintended Consequences' and 'The Auschwitz Poems', which won the 1987 Victorian Premier's Award for poetry. She has also written the novels 'Things Could Be Worse' and 'What God Wants'. The drawings accompanying the poems are by a prominent Australian painter.

Sew Many Dresses, Sew Little Time

Author: Tanya Whelan
Publisher: Potter Craft
ISBN: 0770434940
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
With her "choose-your-own-adventure" approach to sewing, Tanya Whelan offers an invaluable collection of patterns that empowers sewers to become designers. The trick is a set of patterns for 6 skirts and 8 bodices that line up perfectly at the waist, plus an additional 4 sleeve styles and 4 necklines. Tanya gives readers clear instructions and easy-to-follow step-by-step diagrams that allow them to use the enclosed pattern pieces to create up to 219 fitted dresses, including simple strapless designs, sheaths, and halter gowns. The book covers basic dress construction and altering techniques for women of all shapes and sizes.

Style on a Shoestring: Develop Your Cents of Style and Look Like a Million without Spending a Fortune

Author: Andy Paige
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071595066
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Bag the bargains and glam it up--go from frumpy to fabulous style without wounding your wallet! Everyone knows a woman who turns heads with her captivating style. Her clothes fit her body perfectly, her use of color is compelling, her shoes are to die for, and her accessories make her whole outfit pop with panache. Is she a fashion-industry insider? A millionaire? If she's smart, chances are she's a value vixen who's learned which styles best fit her figure, how to navigate the sales rack, and how to put together a look that's fashionably fabulous. With Style on a Shoestring as your guide, you willl learn how to have a great "cents of style"-without breaking the bank. This book teaches you the skills to give yourself a complete makeover, including: How to make a $5 thrift-store find look like a $500 designer deal Getting wardrobe wreckers out of your closet and reworking the frocks you already have Finding the right denim, bra, tops-even the dreaded bathing suit--for your body What time, day, and month to pounce on the best bargains Which colors minimize figure flaws and showcase the good stuff

A Black Man Thinking

Author: Maurice Arthur
Publisher: A Black Man Thinking
ISBN: 9780978834005
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
In his new book, Maurice Arthur takes a look at the difficulties in raising children in the information age and provides concise steps so you can make a difference in a child's life.