fashion/fiction

Just recently, I mentioned that I was fretting over the question of why women's magazines used to include fiction, but don't any more.  Imagine my excitement, then, when I found this book, 100 Years of the American Female from Harper's Bazaar, in Archivia Books on Lexington Avenue - a store that's so full of thrills I'm almost afraid to enter it sometimes; it's like a candy store for art and design books.  This is an out-of-print book published in 1967 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Harper's Bazaar.  Not only does it present a selection of fantastic photographs and articles about fashion (e.g. an article about Coco Chanel by Jean Cocteau) reprinted from the first editions of the magazine onwards, but it also includes some of the fiction that was printed in Bazaar for the first time, including short stories by Eudora Welty, Colette, Flannery O'Connor, and Isak Dinesen, to name a few.  Amazing!

I know that I'm going to spend many happy hours with this book, thanks to my husband who gave it to me as an early Christmas present.  And while I was in the bookstore, I ran into a former (very well-dressed) co-worker who told me about a Cristobal Balenciaga exhibit at the Spanish Institute, which I'm now eagerly looking forward to seeing, perhaps even before Christmas.  I've already come up with a long list of resolutions for 2011, and one of them is to continue my education by visiting New York's many museums and cultural institutes on a more regular basis (once a month, perhaps)?  I think this is exhibit is next on the list - and after that perhaps the Hopper exhibit at the Whitney, on until April 10th.  I write it here in case any of my fellow New Yorkers want to join me!

Comments

[Melissa]

I want to go to the Hopper exhibit!

[Awake]

We'll have to make a plan for the new year!