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Bringing Home the Birkin
An insider's hilarious, whirlwind account of his years spent globe-trotting in search of the holy grail of handbags: the Birkin For more than twenty years, the Hermès Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion, luxury, and wealth. Though the bag is often seen dangling from the arms of celebrities, there is a fabled waiting list of more than two years to buy one from Hermès, and the average fashionista has a better chance of climbing Mount Everest in Prada pumps than of possessing one of these coveted carryalls. Unless, of course, she happens to know Michael Tonello . . . Michael's newfound career started with an impulsive move to Barcelona, a vanished job assignment, no work visa, an...
Knockoff
Based on interviews with victims, investigators, and the people who sell counterfeits, "Knockoff" reveals the link between what we see as innocent fakes and organized crime.
David Birkin
Mouths at the Invisible Event celebrates an exhibition of the same name by British artist David Birkin. Birkin's multimedia work centers around censorship, spectatorship, and the legal and linguistic frameworks underpinning war. He reflects on not only the failure of images, but also the failure of truth and the manipulation of legislative language for political means. Uniquely designed to emulate the appearance of a classified document, the book is richly illustrated with full-color images of Birkin's work. In addition, it features essays by cultural critic Emily Apter and the artist that examine the contrived ambiguity of political and military rhetoric, providing a contemporary commentary on language, aesthetics, and the ethos of modern warfare.
Moneybags
YOU WERE NEVER ON A WAIT LISTSince 1983, the Hermes Birkin has reigned the undefeated symbol of luxury craftsmanship and sophistication.No woman's level of affluence, celebrity, or even elected office can circumvent Hermes' strict selling policies, let alone the tens of thousands who wait fruitlessly on the famous list that doesn't exist.This is how Privé Porter used Instagram to make a global marketplace parallel to Hermes, doing over $60MM in revenue and climbing, of a bag that allegedly doesn't exist. How Christie's and Heritage Auctions battle for handbag 2nd place in court. How the "Pay-To-Pay" system has made Hermes the luxury stock darling of wall street.Tales of the deserving and undeserving, the celebrities, customers and con-artists, and unlikeliest woman behind it all.
Hermes Temptation
"""Have you heard of Hermès? What about Birkin and Kelly bags? What's that? Oh, you're a super freak fan?? You bought a separate house just to store your Birkin and Kelly bags collections? Excellent. This book is for you. Come along on a journey with a couple of Birkin and Kelly bags re-sellers into the mystical world of Hermès; the crack for the high society, the heroin for the exclusive. Read the swashbuckling duo's adventures and struggles as they established Hermès Temptation, an online forum to re-sell the beautiful and rare bags, and laugh and cry as they tell their ups and downs in running the business, weathering criticism, warding off scams and turning France upside down in searc...
Munkey Diaries
'Birkin's diary entries ultimately expose the toxic reality behind one of the 20th century's most glamorous couples' Sunday Times Jane Birkin - actor, singer, songwriter and model - may have shot to worldwide fame through her relationship with Serge Gainsbourg and their controversial hit 'Je t'aime ... moi non plus', but it would be her wide-ranging acting career and effortless Gallic cool that was to truly cement her legacy as an enduring international icon. In Munkey Diaries, the first volume of Birkin's diaries, we're transported to the flamboyant world of London in the Swinging Sixties and Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the 1970s. There are intimate revelations about Jane's tumultuous life with her first husband, the composer John Barry, and her romantic and professional collaboration with Gainsbourg, as well as keen insights into her working life as an actor, singer and songwriter. Far from an ordinary memoir, Munkey Diaries offers a unique window into the early life and loves of an extraordinary woman.
Like a Black and White Kaleidoscope Tossed at Random
First privately published in the United States in 1920 and ruthlessly reviewed on both sides of Atlantic, “Women in Love” remains one of the most provoking novels of this century. Largely because it defies single-mindedness or dogmatic preconceptions, the text has consistently thwarted the critics in their attemps at “nailing it dow”. The present collection of essays sets out to explore how the novel keeps “walking away with the nail”, as Lawrence himself wrote in “Morality and the Novel”.
Destinies of Splendor
Frieda Lawrence once remarked, «Nobody seems to have an idea of the quality of Lawrence's and my relationship, the essence of it.... The deep attraction was there and that was what counts.» This insightful and original study investigates how one of the finest literary minds of the twentieth century experienced deep sexual attraction. In close readings of all of D. H. Lawrence's major novels, Douglas Wuchina charts the growth of sexual attraction between Lawrencian couples as it affects both body and spirit. The theoretical framework is not Foucault's or Lacan's or Bakhtin's but Lawrence's own, with frequent reference to his innovative theory of the chakras and his rejection of modern partn...
D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women in Love
Focusing on D. H. Lawrence's concept of «essential criticism», which was introduced in his posthumously published «Study of Thomas Hardy» and his statement that «every work of art adheres to some system of morality. But it must contain the essential criticism on the morality to which it adheres», this book examines the ways in which Lawrence presents his ideas in his major novels The Rainbow and Women in Love. It explores how this concept plays a crucial role in his fiction as an «other» to the implied author's messages: functioning differently, as equivocation and creative strife, respectively, in The Rainbow and Women in Love, the concept helps to make these novels more dynamic that commonly realized.
