Style Icons - Vol 3 Bombshells (Hardcover)

The most incandescent example of Bombshells is Marilyn Monroe. Her strange combination of ghostly pale skin, childlike face and innate erotic cunning render her hard to date. Unlike modern actresses we can't sense the stylist in her clothes, the heavy hand of a makeup artist or a photographer's over bearing concept. Clearly and hauntingly, her image belongs to her and it is equal parts spectral nymph, mid century beach bunny, haughty heiress and child star. With an hourglass body and a face like Shirley Temple the oddity of Monroe is her wholesomeness. She could sell diamonds or milk. She looked naked in a white cotton dress and perfectly dignified in the nude. She her clothes. Some say she sawed off one stiletto shoe heel a fraction lower to deepen the sway of her hips. Clearly she wasn't happy, and this just serves to deepen the myth and her lure. Her own words, "Being a sex symbol is heavy load" could speak for all of the women who traded infamy for scandal and some scrap of security. Bettie Page, the underground queen of silk stockings, light bondage and leopard skin bikinis claimed very practical reasons for being a pin-up model, preferring the work to "pounding a typewriter eight hours a day." They were a breed that we have not seen the like of again. Bombshells. Marilyn Monroe Brigitte Bardot Raquel Welch Sophia Loren Bettie Page Ursula Andress Mata Hari Elizabeth Taylor Jane Russell Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $2.99 per edition. Look for "STYLE ICONS" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected] Authors Introduction Anna Johnson Publisher & Editor Paul G Roberts Art Direction Samantha Mayfair Design Tarne Sheed Video Link Editing Alice Hoffman Ross Project Management Pip Dalton