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Title: Jackie Style by Pamela Clarke Keogh ISBN: 0-06-019952-0 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.32 (31 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Jackie Style lush but lacking.
Comment: I was attracted to this book by its feel and the promise of learning more about that certain "something" Jackie radiates. After mentally debating the price, my lust for more Jackie style information won out and I purchased it. It is a substantial book in many ways but weak in others. The beginning of the book is awkward as the author describes what Jackie was thinking after her husband won the Presidency. How could the author know? The authors assumptions immediately made me question the rest of the books authenticity. As I read through the book however, the author changed tactics and began to describe the first lady using research that was factually supported. She discusses Jackie's upbringing, her role as young woman, and beyond. Though most of the information has been written about before, several aspects were elaborated on to add a new twist and make them more interesting. For example, I had read many times about Jackie winning Vogue magazines Prix de Paris competition, but never in the detail Keough gives. There are a number of photographs in the book but unfortunatly the way they are presented lacks impact. Many are black and white, others small for the page, few are new, and in general they don't have the luster that they could. For example, p.182 has a full size, black and white photograph of Jackie with flowers fully covering her face. If this is one of the never seen photographs Keough promises well I can see why. Another page is devoted to a full color photo of Ari Onasis. Since the full color photos of Jackie are few why not make it one of her? Pamela Keoughs previous book Audrey Style had a much better selection of pictures that made an impression! There are also some line sketches of Jackie in a pillbox. The sketch looks more like Anjelica Houston. The information in the book is broad. The author has obviously done alot of research and she relays the information with her fresh perspective. But many readers will wish for more information about Jackie's STYLE not her life history. For those just beginning to read about Jackie this will be a good introduction but to those familiar with her and the books about her this will be a rehash and retelling.
Rating: 4
Summary: Oh Jackie!
Comment: Pam Keogh's clear and stunning portrait of Jackie Kennedy Onassis gives the reader aspects of this complex and intriguing woman from the inside out. It is a warm and visually beautiful view of JKO that goes beyond what she wore where. If you want a glimpse of the private Jackie, buy this book!
Rating: 2
Summary: Nice, but nothing about Jackie's fashion.
Comment: I think it's great that there are authors like Keogh around. You can tell that she really wants to portray Jackie at her best. But the problem is that this book is written in a cut and paste way, and despite what the dustcover says, there is nothing new and revealing at all. Let me explain more.
First of all, this book is called JACKIE STYLE, but it is really just a popcorn biography. Keogh claims that she has new interviews that reveal new insights about Jackie. Well, tell me, how does the designer Cynthia Rowley saying she admired how Jackie dressed reveal new insights into Jackie, the person, the first lady, and everything that Jackie was and became??????
Then, there is the claim that there is over 100 black and white, and color, photos of Jackie that have never been seen before. Not true; with the exception of 25 or less, all have been published before. And the 25 are not of Jackie, but of her friends, or a date, or a Kennedy.
This book is written well, but is just isn't about her fashion. There are good photos in the bood, and Keogh does have an inviting writing style, even if she tends to sometimes overpraise her subjects, but it is not about Jackie's style.
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Title: Audrey Style by Pamela Clarke Keogh, Hubert de Givenchy, Hubert de Givenchy ISBN: 0060193298 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Jackie: The Clothes of Camelot by Jay Mulvaney, Dominick Dunne ISBN: 0312281978 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Jacqueline Kennedy : The White House Years: Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum by Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hamish Bowles, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Rachael Lambert Mellon ISBN: 0821227459 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 13 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Jackie : Her Life in Pictures by James Spada ISBN: 0312280424 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 19 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Thousand Days of Magic: Dressing Jackie Kennedy for the White House by Oleg Cassini ISBN: 0847819000 Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $42.50 |
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