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A unique, full-color compendium that celebrates and explores the enduring power and allure of the world’s most iconic lip shade, jam-packed with entertaining stories, anecdotes, little-known facts, quotes, and more than 100 gorgeous images culled from fine art, photography, and beauty and fashion editorial and advertising.
“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.” — Elizabeth Taylor
Lipstick is the one makeup item most women can’t live without—and the most iconic shade is red. Exuding power, sensuality, allure, and mystery, red lips have been a constant of fashion for more than 5,000 years, beginning with Mesopotamian women around 3500 B.C. Throughout the ages, red lipstick has been a signature look worn by royalty, celebrities, and real women across cultures and geography. In fact, nearly all women own a tube of red lipstick, whether it’s the favorite shade they’ve been wearing devotedly for years, or as beauty boost they use for special occasions.
Filled with a show-stopping selection of images and distinctively packaged—the size of a clutch, with a jacket printed with a matte, velvet, red finish—Red Lipstick is the only cultural history of this makeup essential available. Granted unprecedented access to experts and the archives of revered brands like Chanel and Elizabeth Arden, beauty writer Rachel Felder explores the origins and allure of red lipstick and illuminates its association with aristocracy, sex appeal, illicit sexuality, rebellion, power, glamour, fame, and beauty. She also spotlights the fascinating array of women who have worn it through the ages, including monarchs, suffragettes, flappers, working women in World War II, first ladies, political leaders, geishas, Hollywood sirens, rock and rollers, fashionistas, and more.
Inside this enthralling book, you’ll discover why red lipstick makes women more attractive to others (and the science behind it); tips on choosing the most perfect shade of crimson; and a wealth of anecdotes, quotations, select literary excerpts, and trivia, such as the shade Carolyn Bessette Kennedy wore on her wedding day. Red Lipstick is packed with a museum’s worth of fine art, including both Man Ray’s photograph “Red Badge of Courage” and infamous painting “Les Amoreaux;” lush, rarely seen vintage magazine advertisements from stalwart brands like Guerlain and Dior; illustrations by renowned fashion illustrators such as René Gruau, Daisy Villeneuve, and Bil Donovan; artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edgar Degas, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wayne Thiebaud, and Walt Kuhn; and images of famous red lipstick wearers including Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth II, Coco Chanel, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Madonna, Diana Vreeland, Rihanna, Paloma Picasso, and many others.
With its captivating, chic design, beautiful selection of visuals, and engaging, entertaining text, Red Lipstick is a classic, like the perfect red lip shade itself.
Publisher : Harper; Illustrated edition (April 9, 2019)
Language : English
Hardcover : 160 pages
ISBN-10 : 0062844261
ISBN-13 : 978-0062844262
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 6.2 x 0.8 x 8.6 inches
Kristen –
Fun and Beautifully Put Together
This book was as delightful to look at as it was fascinating to read. Loved it.
Madame Diore –
Self-Proclaimed Red Lipstick Missionary
I am a self-proclaimed red lipstick missionary. Everyone should have a tube and I do nothing but spread the love that red tube can bring. All jokes aside, you can read this in one sitting. It contains information that you really donât see in articles or magazines. It great coffee table book and conversation piece.
MM –
The illustrations are spectacular. It’s very well written, the book is of lovely quality- the photos are stunning. If I could give it ten stars, I would!
Bren29 –
Interesting read
visetti pieremilio –
Quello che cercavo
Client d’Amazon –
good salesman, good stuff
Fiona –
Beautifully illustrated, this would be a fantastic coffee table book. As a primer for a lipstick lover, it lacked depth and the whole thing can be read cover to cover in 30 minutes. I found myself wanting to know more in almost every chapter, particularly for a product with such an interesting history. I wouldnât recommend it on kindle as the illustrations fall flat.