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The power of style

by Annette Tapert

They were the most stylish women of their time, setting the standards for the world of fashion, decorating, and entertaining. Rita Lydig, Elsie de Wolfe, Coco Chanel. Daisy Fellowes, the Duchess of Windsor, Countess Mona Bismarck, Millicent Rogers, Diana Vreeland, Pauline de Rothschild, Babe Paley, Gloria Guinness, Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, and Jacqueline Onassis - these women not only dominated their time, they continue to fascinate and inspire. The Power of Style makes these twentieth-century legends come alive, revealing their secrets and explaining, for the first time, how they came to be such preeminent figures. More, it reveals the amusing, instructive, and sometimes painful tales of the lives behind the legends.

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