Influence

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I grabbed it off the shelf like I was the five year old girl I used to be when I saw the Barbie I was dying for.

It's a shame because it would have been much more interesting if Mary-Kate and Ashley would have written a book about their own lives. How very clever- there's about a couple of pages of them writing about them, many photos, and the rest are interviews with the artists and designers they admire and are inspired by.Zuerst war ich wirklich positiv überrascht, weil das Buch wesentlich größer ist als ich es erwartet hätte. There's a pretty heavy-handedness to Mary Kate's love of Warholian culture just in terms of who she interviews and the questions involved. I found it at Urban Outfitters in the "cool books" section with Nylon guides and such and bought it at the airport as a present to my girlfriend.

Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. You will get an idea of how the twins developed their sense of style and fashion based on people who have influenced them. Diane von Furstenberg, John Galliano, Lauren Hutton, Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Loboutin or Terry Richardson.And no, it's not all the things I thought I would glean, which is that the Olsens are spoiled brats who like to go to fancy restaurants all over the world to interview their fashion heroes and turn it into a vainglorious and largely self-serving, heavily illustrated coffee table book. Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, known around the world for their individual, unique style have emerged as two of our shared culture's most influential women. Considering that the Olsen twins are probably more used to giving interviews than conducting them, they manage to keep the focus on the subjects at hand. Sunday, ‎October ‎28, ‎2012] Two days ago I got the book and flipped through it and read about the influential people in the Olsen twins life. It has a great energy as it features people and ideas from all over the world and the work, both of the girls and the guts they had to sit across the table from some pretty powerful people as well as that of the individual artists, is inspiring.

They are accompanied by richly detailed visuals, including a 1976 Newsweek cover featuring Diane Von Furstenburg and a letter Diana Vreeland wrote to journalist Bob Colacello concerning a magazine article about Josephine Baker. The photos are also great [especially those of the photographers], some are included with each interview. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Whether -- like the Olsens -- you think that fashion is all that important, the twins do know their subject fairly well, do know the personages, and know the right questions to ask.They fly to Coco Chanel's old apartment in Paris to interview Karl Lagerfeld, various hotels and restaurants in Paris to interview designers and a runway show producer during fashion week, and to artists' studios and lofts in LA and NYC. Lots of beautiful, high-quality photos of the Olsens as well as of famous people and LOTS of fashion items - drawings, exhibits, artwork, etc. Oftentimes, their own gushing admiration shines through, but the effect is more endearing than anything else. Ich bin wirklich begeistert und es ist definitiv ein Must-Have für jeden Mary-Kate und Ashley Olsen fan!