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Here's the 50 Shades book you should be reading! This one has pictures! The Reel Art Press has another chart topper with a stunning chronicle of the accessory that is an essential to style whether you're on the beach hiding from the sun or on the streets of Manhattan, hiding from your adoring public! Peachy Deegan has always been fascinated with sunglasses and cannot remember ever NOT wearing them, even as a child.
Lauren Goldstein Crowe has brilliantly assembled a superstar lineup of stars and quotes on sunglasses that would appeal to everyone that looks in the mirror before they go out the door in the morning. Do not miss her introduction first where you'll learn about her encounter with Richard Gere, what she calls the dog under the sofa trick, and the best way to add mystique to your look-at last count, Peachy had about 15 of these ways, her favorite being the Jennifer Creel way.
Peeling back the layers of celebrity, Crowe even recounts the history of sunglasses going back 2,000 years to Eskimo times to more recent days of autos and aviation. Of course because this is published by Reel Art press, the photography itself is simply breathtaking as we have come to expect by the precedent they've set for themselves in previous reviews (see links at end to their history on our site.) And again, we noticed that this is published in the UK which speaks volumes about the quality of the book and its printing and binding-two thumbs up from us.
Kicking it off with Al Pacino and graduating to the next-Andy Warhol-this is a hit parade of stars in their shades with quotes to be smitten with. Audrey Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, Diane Keaton, Grace Kelly and Jack Nicholson are our favorites. Finally, we
can't read a book like this and not think of one of Peachy's favorite songs, the Boys of Summer by Don Henley, and we quote him:
"But I can see you
Your brown skin shining in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your
Sunglasses on baby
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer, have gone...
I can see you
Your brown skin shining in the sun
You got your hair slicked back and those
Wayfarers on, baby
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer, have gone."
Summer or winter, we need our sunglasses in Manhattan and Whom You Know Highly Recommends 50 Shades 50 iconic images from 50 years of popular culture.
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“With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.”
Sunglasses. The great equalizer. Nothing, except possibly the way they dance, tells you so much about
a person’s true character on sight alone than their choice of shades.
This November, Reel Art Press will release 50 Shades, a stunning hardback coffee table edition
featuring fifty of the last century's most iconic figures in their coolest sunglasses taken from the Getty
Images archive.
Nothing denotes genuine celebrity quite so much as these iconic figures captured wearing sunglasses.
When we wear a similar style of sunglasses we’re emulating celebrities. They wear them in part to
disguise themselves or retain an air of mystery, we wear them to stand out.
This amazing book immortalises fifty of the coolest icons from the past five decades, wearing shades.
From the world of politics, literature, music, film and theatre they clearly stamp their individuality and
have given us some of our all-time favourite celebrity images. Without doubt these are some of the
most glamorous, stylish and infamous people in public life, photographed wearing their own shades,
many speaking volumes about how they see themselves and how they want us to see them.
From Jackie O, who kept a large bowl of sunglasses by the front door and threw on a pair whenever
she left the house, to Debbie Harry, a sex symbol in a T-shirt, with the corporate execs from her label
reflected in her mirrored shades, this beautiful 120 page edition is a celebration of some of the most
fascinating figures in popular culture.
It features some of the most celebrated and admired actors from the past four decades, oozing cool
and charisma. In The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) Steve McQueen wore Persol 714 and 649, both with
a folding bridge. A pair worn in the film sold at auction in LA for $70,000 in 2006.
Columbia Studios’ Jack Cole ‘controlled Marilyn’s every on-screen moment’, according to Kenneth
Anger in an essay in Living Legends. It was he who gave her sunglasses – both to hide behind and to give
her glamour. ‘She always wore them when she went out in the days of Confidential magazine, thinking
she wouldn’t be recognized, which was ridiculous: everyone knew who she was anyway.’ Marilyn
helped create the idea that hiding behind glasses made you seem special.
From Andy Warhol to Brian Jones, Elvis Presley to Yves Sant Laurent, Clint Eastwood to Catherine
Deneuve, 50 Shades features stunning photography reproduced to the highest quality and is
accompanied by text from leading fashion writer, Lauren Goldstein Crowe.
Book Information:
RRP: £19.95/$29.95
ISBN: 978-0-9572610-6-8
120 pp, 60 colour and b/w photographs; HB; 284 x 245 mm / 11 x 9 ½ in.
Lauren Goldstein Crowe has written about the fashion industry for over 10 years. She has
worked for numerous publications including Time, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, the New York Times,
the Financial Times and The Times. She has appeared as a fashion expert on CNN and Bloomberg
Television and has been interviewed for a number of radio programs, including the BBC World
Service. Lauren is the author of Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion and The Towering World of Jimmy Choo.
Lauren is American and has lived in London since 2000.
Tony Nourmand is co-founder of Reel Art Press and editor of all R|A|P publications. He is also
the author of a further sixteen best-selling books on entertainment-related imagery, including James
Bond Movie Posters and Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years.
About Reel Art Press: Reel Art Press specialises in exclusive publications with a focus on
entertainment art. Their deluxe editions unveil largely unseen photography and celebrate the people
responsible for capturing some of the most seminal moments in entertainment history. The company
made headlines around the world with their first four editions: The Rat Pack, Bill Gold: PosterWorks,
Weddings and Movie Stars and Hollywood and the Ivy Look. 2012 releases to date have included Hurrell: The
