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Inside Vogue: a Diary of My 100Th Year Free FREE INSIDE VOGUE: A DIARY OF MY 100TH YEAR PDF Alexandra Shulman | 336 pages | 27 Oct 2016 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780241279236 | English | London, United Kingdom Inside Vogue-A Diary of my th Year-Review - Blue 17 Vintage Clothing Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Inside Vogue by Alexandra Shulman. Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year Shulman reveals the emotional and logistical minefield of producing the th anniversary issue that Duchess of Cambridge cover surpriseorganizing the star-studded Vogue Gala, working with designers from Victoria Beckham to Karl Lagerfeld and contributors from David Bailey to Alexa Chung. All under the continual scrutiny of a television documentary crew. But narrowly-contained domestic chaos hovers - spontaneous combustion in the kitchen, a temperamental boiler and having to send bin day reminders all the way from Milan fashion week. For anyone who wants to know what the life of a fashion magazine editor is really like, or for any woman who loves her job, this is a rich, honest and sharply observed account of a year lived at the centre of British fashion and culture. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Inside Vogueplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jun 22, SueKich rated it it was amazing. Oh, I do so like this woman! I was predisposed to like Alexandra Shulman not only because I was such a fan of her father Milton Shulman, the late, great theatre critic of the Evening Standard but also because, some years ago, she wrote a lovely warm letter of encouragement to my daughter then trying to launch her career as a shoe designer. Whilst Alexandra Shulman would be the first to acknowledge this, she also recognises the importance of the fashion industry to British trade and she sets her scenes within the political context of the times — in this case, and the build-up to the EU referendum. Impossible, of course. She conveys her hopes and fears with humility, and her successes and her disappointments with good grace. Her genuine appreciation not only of her team but also the many talented people she comes into contact with. She gives the reader real insight into how a monthly magazine like Vogue functions and she does so in such a likeable way. As you can probably tell, I thoroughly enjoyed this account Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year just now seeing her interviewed on television having resigned from the editorship after 25 years, I sincerely wish her well. View 2 comments. May 04, Joy rated it did not like it. I suppose I found this book compelling enough to complete, and there were some interesting elements to it. I also found the internalised misogyny rather Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year, and the transphobic and racist comments really objectionable. Dec 23, Megan Staunton rated it really liked it. Interesting and seemingly open portrayal of the behind the scenes at Vogue. Alexandra Shulman is an excellent writer and managed to link the entirety of the book, despite it being formatted in date entries. Entertaining, although slightly stressful to read many to-do lists and bumps in the road however very insightful. View all 3 comments. Jan 14, Mathieu Ravier rated it did not like it. This book is thoroughly lacking in non-superficial insights into magazine editing, or come to think of it, fashion. The British Vogue editor seems unable to break through her bubble of privilege to really understand the place that Vogue might and could occupy in a materialistic and sexist society. One telling passage finds her unable to account in a newspaper interview for the bad influence the size 0 models featured in fashion mags might have on the self-image of young women and girls, then rel This book is thoroughly lacking in non-superficial insights into magazine editing, or come to think of it, fashion. One telling passage finds her unable to account in a newspaper interview for the bad influence the size 0 models featured in fashion mags might have on the self-image of young women and girls, then relieved when the piece might be buried by the news, the next day, of the start of US bombing in Syria. View 1 comment. Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year 05, Becky rated it it was amazing. I really, really loved this. Insightful, engaging and incredibly human. It feels very real. As somebody who watched Richard Macer's BBC documentary on Vogue, it was really interesting to read the behind the scenes of the behind the scenes. Also gives a nice snapshot of a year in Britain, e. Dec 30, Charlotte Staples rated it really liked it. I really enjoyed reading this book. Alexandra gives an honest and humbling account of being such a successful woman. I'd watched the inside vogue documentary and I was surprised at how genuinely down to earth she comes across within the book. I absolutely Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year the insight of home life and found the book very funny at times too. Incredible insight into the world of running vogue magazine! I have a heightened appreciation to all what it includes! Nov 17, Carole Morin rated it really liked it. Always picked to be "a thundercloud not a raindrop". Self-deprecating people are often needy bores, but Shulman cleverly satirises herself and the world she works in. Her diary is worth reading, and not just for Schadenfreude. Her father told her "no man will marry you if you don't lose weight". But Shulman, a 58 year old with thighs, is living proof that "hefty" girls can stay on top with "I was aware from the age of 3 that I was hefty," Alex Shulman, editor of UK Vogue, writes in her diary. But Shulman, a 58 year old with thighs, is living proof that "hefty" girls can stay on Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year with her bum in the big seat at Vogue House in Mayfair since last century. A published diary is essentially a performance, yet the faux intimacy is seductive as she gives the reader a glimpse of her world both personal and professional. When she wakes up feeling fat and "furious with herself for eating pizza", she still has to face thinsters in the front row. Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year scolds herself for looking like "a sequinned sausage" as she flies between fashion weeks, being filmed for a documentary celebrating Vogue's th year and giving in to a Toblerone in the hotel mini bar. Looking "beyond hideous" while standing next to Vogue centenary cover girl the Duchess of Cambridge at the National Portrait Gallery; she doesn't buy into the myth that fashion magazines cause anorexia. Fashion is a business not a therapy; though for Alex Shulman her job is possibly somewhere between a vocation and a burden she carries to prove her worth. But she exercises none of that bland caution here, describing her boss Nicholas Coleridge as having "no compunction to be factually accurate", her deputy Emily Sheffield who doubles up as David Cameron's sinlaw as "a glamorous bluebottle", and big-haired Diane Von Furstenberg reminds her of Bill Clinton! John Kerry, who "stares into the room instead of the person he's talking to" corners Victoria Beckham at the American Ambassador's house and says, "We gotta talk about Syria. Conde Nast's chairman Jonathan Newhouse "gives a speech like a character from the Godfather Is Shulman planning to leave the Conde Nast stage and become a full-time novelist? Maybe that's why she has allowed herself to be hilariously indiscreet? Sales of her two novels she's are not going well, and her Instagram posts don't get that many likes. I can't imagine Anna Wintour admitting that even in a private diary. Sometimes it takes confidence to share failure and Shulman's diary contains a glimpse of the ruthless eye essential for good fiction. Her description of being sexually assaulted by a strange man in a park is priceless. It's all go on Planet Alex. She finds time between glamorous parties and "cliched" nightmares to view a lock of Lucrezia Borgia's hair; visit the dog track where David Beckham worked before he was Mr Victoria; host parties for her ex-husband and thin sister; and have a garden hut erected, which becomes a metaphor for the control she seeks in her life. She imagines going to live in Berlin "writing poems and painting" but then she wouldn't be able to afford the Balenciaga coat she has her Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year on. And the print edition of Vogue, a "dinosaur" in a digital world, is as much her baby as Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year grown up son Sam who catches the eye of predatory Kate Moss at a party. Jul 07, Behiye Hassan rated it really liked it. I really enjoyed reading this, it made me wish I had brought the centuary issue! It was fascinating to see what day to day is Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year as editor of Vogue.
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