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Diane Von Furstenberg: A Life Unwrapped

Diane Von Furstenberg: A Life Unwrapped

Gioia Diliberto

Dey Street Books
2015
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A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and controversial legends of late twentieth-century fashion, an iconic designer whose colorful creations, including the "wrap dress," captured the modern feminist spirit.The daughter of a Holocaust survivor and wife of an Austrian nobleman, Diane von Furstenberg burst onto New York's fashion scene in 1969, and within a few years became an international sensation with her colorful wrap dress in printed jersey. Embraced by millions of American women of all ages, sizes, and shapes, the dress became a cult object and symbol of women's liberation, tied inexorably to the image of youth, independence, and sex Diane herself projected.In this masterful biography, Gioia Diliberto brings Diane's extraordinary life into focus, from her post-World-War-II childhood in Belgium, through her rise to the top of the fashion world during the decadent seventies and glamorous go-go eighties, to her humiliating failures both professional and personal, and her remarkable comeback in the nineties. Like Coco Chanel, Diane has always been her own best advertisement. Morphing from a frizzy brunette outsider in a sea of sleek blondes to a stunning pop cultural icon, she embodied the brand she created--"the DVF woman," a model of self-sufficiency, sensuality, and confidence.Diliberto's captivating, balanced portrait, based on scores of interviews with Diane's family, friends, lovers, employees, and the designer herself, explores von Furstenberg's relationships with her husbands and lovers, and illuminates fashion's evolution from rare luxury to marketing monster and the development of a uniquely American style. Lively and insightful, the book also explores the larger world of the nation's elite, where fashion, culture, society, politics, and Hollywood collide. Diane von Furstenberg is a modern fable of self-invention, fame, wealth, failure, and success that mirrors late-twentieth century America itself.
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Diane von Furstenberg

Diane von Furstenberg

Gioia Diliberto

Dey Street Books
2016
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A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and controversial legends of late twentieth-century fashion, an iconic designer whose colorful creations, including the "wrap dress," captured the modern feminist spirit.The daughter of a Holocaust survivor and wife of an Austrian nobleman, Diane von Furstenberg burst onto New York's fashion scene in 1969, and within a few years became an international sensation with her colorful wrap dress in printed jersey. Embraced by millions of American women of all ages, sizes, and shapes, the dress became a cult object and symbol of women's liberation, tied inexorably to the image of youth, independence, and sex Diane herself projected.In this masterful biography, Gioia Diliberto brings Diane's extraordinary life into focus, from her post-World-War-II childhood in Belgium, through her rise to the top of the fashion world during the decadent seventies and glamorous go-go eighties, to her humiliating failures both professional and personal, and her remarkable comeback in the nineties. Like Coco Chanel, Diane has always been her own best advertisement. Morphing from a frizzy brunette outsider in a sea of sleek blondes to a stunning pop cultural icon, she embodied the brand she created--"the DVF woman," a model of self-sufficiency, sensuality, and confidence.Diliberto's captivating, balanced portrait, based on scores of interviews with Diane's family, friends, lovers, employees, and the designer herself, explores von Furstenberg's relationships with her husbands and lovers, and illuminates fashion's evolution from rare luxury to marketing monster and the development of a uniquely American style. Lively and insightful, the book also explores the larger world of the nation's elite, where fashion, culture, society, politics, and Hollywood collide. Diane von Furstenberg is a modern fable of self-invention, fame, wealth, failure, and success that mirrors late-twentieth century America itself.
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Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife

Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife

Gioia Diliberto

HARPER PERENNIAL
2011
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"A bittersweet modern love story that] reads as easily as a novel." --Vogue"Fascinating. . . . A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left." --NewsdayHadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the center of an expatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting account of the young Hemingways, Gioia Diliberto explores their passionate courtship, their family life in Paris with baby Bumby, and their thrilling, adventurous relationship--a literary love story scarred by Hadley's loss of the only copy of Hemingway's first novel and ultimately destroyed by a devastating m nage trois on the French Riviera. Compelling, illuminating, poignant, and deeply insightful, Paris Without End provides a rare, intimate glimpse of the writer who so fully captured the American imagination and the remarkable woman who inspired his passion and his art--the only woman Hemingway never stopped loving.
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Firebrands

Firebrands

Gioia Diliberto

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
2024
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Guaranteed to change how you picture Prohibition, this lively history turns the spotlight on four women in the immediate aftermath of winning the vote who played influential roles on all sides of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments. In the popular imagination, the story of Prohibition in America is a story of men and male violence, one full of federal agents fighting gangsters over the sale of moonshine. In contrast, Firebrands is the story of four Jazz Age dynamos—all women –who were forces behind the passage, the enforcement, the defiance, and, ultimately, the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. They battled each other directly, and they learned to marshal clout with cowed and hypocritical legislators, almost all of them men. Their clash over Prohibition stands as the first significant exercise of women’s political power since women gained the right to vote, and their influence on the American political scene wouldn’t be equaled for decades. In Gioia Diliberto’s fresh and timely take on this period of history, we meet Ella Boole, the stern and ambitious leader of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, who campaigned fiercely to introduce Prohibition and fought desperately to keep it alive. We also meet Mabel Walker Willebrandt, the most powerful woman in America at the time, who served as the top federal prosecutor charged with enforcing Prohibition. Diliberto tells the story, too, of silent film star Texas Guinan, who ran New York speakeasies backed by the mob and showed that Prohibition was not only absurd but unenforceable. And, she follows Pauline Morton Sabin, a glamorous Manhattan aristocrat who belatedly recognized the cascading evil in Prohibition and mobilized the movement to kill it. These women led their opposing forces of “Wets” and “Drys” across a teeming landscape of bootleggers, gangsters, federal agents, temperance fanatics, and cowardly politicians, many of them secret drunks. Building on the momentum of suffrage, they forged a path for the activists who followed during the great civil rights battles of the mid-twentieth century. Yet, they have been largely lost to history. In Firebrands, Diliberto finally gives these dynamic figures their due, creating a varied and dramatic portrait of women wielding power, in politics, society, and popular culture.
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The Collection

The Collection

Gioia Diliberto

Scribner
2008
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Isabelle Varlet, charming and naive, comes from a long line of seamstresses in a small town in France. A series of unfortunate events and her prodigious sartorial talent carry her to Paris, which in the wake of World War I is electric with new life. When Isabelle takes a job in the atelier of Coco Chanel, the rising star of haute couture, she finds herself in the heart of a glamorous and ruthless world filled with arrogant designers, handsome men, beautiful women, and fashion thieves who prowl Paris hoping to steal designs before they hit the runway. In Chanel's workshop, Isabelle thrives on the time-honored techniques of couture -- the pains-taking hand stitches, the perfect fall of fabric -- and the sleek, pared-down lines of "Mademoiselle's" revolutionary style. As Isabelle brings an exquisite dress to life for the fall collection -- from its embryonic origins in humble muslin to its finished form in the finest silk -- she navigates the tempestuous moods of Chanel, the cutthroat antics of her fellow workers, and her own search for love. Just as she did in her critically acclaimed novel "I Am Madame X, " Gioia Diliberto brings a rich historical moment to life through her vivid and compelling storytelling. Her penetrating research and imagination are gracefully woven together in this poignant story filled with larger-than-life characters embroiled in scandalous tales, passionate love affairs, and extraordinary careers. The Collection is an exuberantly entertaining read.
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I Am Madame X

I Am Madame X

Gioia Diliberto

Simon Schuster
2004
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In 1884, renowned painter John Singer Sargent unveiled his portrait of the notorious beauty Virginie Gautreau at the Paris Salon. Virginie's bold pose, provocative dress, and icy pale skin caused an immediate furore. Panned by the critics and abhorred by the public, the painting crippled Sargent's hopes of a career in Paris. He soon relocated to England, where he established himself as the favourite portrait painter of the wealthy. In this remarkable novel, Diliberto tells Virginie's story, drawing on the sketchy facts of her life to recreate her personality and the milieu of nineteenth century Paris. Born in New Orleans and raised on her grandmother's Creole plantation, Virginie fled to France with her mother and sister during the Civil War. After a troubled adolescence, she became a professional beauty and married a prominent French banker. Even before Sargent painted her portrait, Virginie's reputation for promiscuity and showy self-display made her the subject of Paris gossip.
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Coco at the Ritz

Coco at the Ritz

Gioia Diliberto

Pegasus Books
2024
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A riveting and prismatic novel of the eternally enigmatic Coco Chanel in the aftermath of World War II.Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, as World War II drew to a close, she was arrested and interrogated on charges of treason to France. Many of the facts are lost to history, partly through Chanel's own obfuscation, but this much is known: the charges grew out of her war-time romance with a German spy, and one morning two soldiers from the French Forces of the Interior—the loose band of Resistance fighters, soldiers and private citizens who took up arms in the wake of the Liberation of Paris—led Chanel from her suite at the Ritz Hotel in Paris to an undisclosed location for questioning. What transpired during her interrogation, who was present, and why she was set free when so many other women who’d been involved with German men (willingly or otherwise) had their heads shaved or were imprisoned, remains a mystery. In this brilliantly insightful and compulsively readable novel from the author of I am Madame X, Gioia Diliberto explores the motivations of this complex woman and portrays the gripping battle of wits that could have been her interrogation. Was Chanel truly a collaborator? Though the Occupation of France offered a stark contrast between good and evil, few people are wholly heroes or villains in wartime. Most citizens, as the writer André Gide noted, were like old shoes floating in murky waters: battered and torn, riding the turbulent flow, just trying to survive. By turns raw and vulnerable, steely and flawed, Chanel emerges from these pages as a woman who owns her decisions, no matter the consequences. Rich with history and filled with emotional truths, Coco at the Ritz is a story about the choices one woman made when the stakes were the highest. In today’s world, it is a cautionary tale about the necessity of standing against evil when it stares you in the face.
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Coco at the Ritz

Coco at the Ritz

Gioia Diliberto

Pegasus Books
2023
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A riveting and prismatic novel of the eternally enigmatic Coco Chanel in the aftermath of World War II.Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, as World War II drew to a close, she was arrested and interrogated on charges of treason to France. Many of the facts are lost to history, partly through Chanel's own obfuscation, but this much is known: the charges grew out of her war-time romance with a German spy, and one morning two soldiers from the French Forces of the Interior-the loose band of Resistance fighters, soldiers and private citizens who took up arms in the wake of the Liberation of Paris-led Chanel from her suite at the Ritz Hotel in Paris to an undisclosed location for questioning.What transpired during her interrogation, who was present, and why she was set free when so many other women who'd been involved with German men (willingly or otherwise) had their heads shaved or were imprisoned, remains a mystery. In this brilliantly insightful and compulsively readable novel from the author of I am Madame X, Gioia Diliberto explores the motivations of this complex woman and portrays the gripping battle of wits that could have been her interrogation. Was Chanel truly a collaborator?Though the Occupation of France offered a stark contrast between good and evil, few people are wholly heroes or villains in wartime. Most citizens, as the writer Andr Gide noted, were like old shoes floating in murky waters: battered and torn, riding the turbulent flow, just trying to survive.By turns raw and vulnerable, steely and flawed, Chanel emerges from these pages as a woman who owns her decisions, no matter the consequences. Rich with history and filled with emotional truths, Coco at the Ritz is a story about the choices one woman made when the stakes were the highest. In today's world, it is a cautionary tale about the necessity of standing against evil when it stares you in the face.
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Gioia e coraggio di essere puri

Gioia e coraggio di essere puri

Nardo Masetti Masetti

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Oggi in particolare, i due termini sessualit e sensualit sono usati come sinonimi. Alla sessualit , poi, si offrono traguardi senza alcun limite, attribuendo a questo la qualifica di libert . Dio, che ha creato l'uomo e la donna, sa perfettamente come funzionano. Propone una sessualit orientata alla formazione globale della persona, che le rende capace di essere un dono per gli altri. E se non sempre si riesce a controllare la propria sensualit ? Dio ti chiede di impegnarti, di desiderare di raggiungere il traguardo, senza avvilirti mai. Chi desidera veramente di essere puro, ha raggiunto in parte la purezza del cuore, esaltata da Ges nelle beatitudini.
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Gioia: L'esperienza piu' fantastica della mia vita

Gioia: L'esperienza piu' fantastica della mia vita

Margherita Maria Pieri

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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La storia di una ragazza che ama e rispetta gli animali.Un incontro magico le doner tre diverse vite: da delfino, da gabbiano e da cagnolina.Emozioni e avventure si susseguono, con l'amore per la natura che accomuna le creature alle quali Gioia dar vita.Alla fine delle tre storie, ricever un dono inaspettato che molti di noi, amanti degli animali, desiderano.Una storia tra realt e fantasia, che ci dar modo di riflettere, per valorizzare le meraviglie della natura.*** L'AUTRICE ***Margherita Pieri, da sempre amante degli animali, scrive questo racconto che nasce dalla sua anima. Di origini toscane, nata a Milano, ha vissuto anche a Roma; dove ha lavorato come grafica pubblicitaria per molti anni. Appena le stato possibile andata a vivere all'isola di La Maddalena, in Sardegna; realizzando il suo sogno di quando era ragazza.In questo arcipelago meraviglioso, nasce il suo desiderio di scrivere racconti. Seguendo l'istinto e ispirata dalla sua cagnolina Trip, compone questo primo romanzo.
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Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia

MERCER UNIVERSITY PRESS
2024
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During the past forty years, Dana Gioia has had as transformative an impact on American literature as any living author. A major poet, creative visionary, and forthright critic, he has played a pivotal role in the field by arguing for more honest reviewing, questioning the isolated state of American poetry, and advocating for the return to form and narrative. This collection of twenty essays is the first multi-author critical effort to explore the extent of Gioia's influential presence on the literary world. Dana Gioia: Poet and Critic brings together more than thirty years of scholarship to illuminate the scope of his artistic achievement and cultural impact. The book includes the most significant critical responses to his award-winning poetry and prose. It also provides an unparalleled foundation for understanding his literary influences, preoccupations, and intentions. The essay collection is divided into three sections covering Gioia's early career (Daily Horoscope, The Gods of Winter, and Can Poetry Matter?), mid-career (Interrogations at Noon and Nosferatu), and later career (Pity the Beautiful, 99 Poems, and Meet Me at the Lighthouse). In addition to providing close readings of individual poems and essays, it examines the overarching themes of his work, such as his religious faith, love of California, and engagement with the Western intellectual tradition.Contributors include Ned Balbo, Matthew Brennan, Christopher Clausen, Roxana Elena Doncu, Jack Foley, Joshua Hren, Hilton Kramer, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, April Lindner, Franz Link, Samuel Maio, David Mason, Janet McCann, Robert McPhillips, Leslie Monsour, William Oxley, Jon Parrish Peede, Anne Stevenson, Kevin Walzer, James Matthew Wilson, and John Zheng.
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La Gioia È Venuta Meno O È Scomparsa?

La Gioia È Venuta Meno O È Scomparsa?

Domenico Barbera

Independently Published
2017
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Il titolo che abbiamo dato a questo libro stato preso dal libro del profeta Gioele 1:12 che recita: La vite secca, il fico appassito; il melograno, la palma, il melo, tutti gli alberi della campagna sono secchi; la gioia scomparsa tra i figli degli uomini. La N.D., al posto della parola "scomparsa," adopera la frase " venuta meno." Alcune traduzioni che abbiamo consultato si esprimo nel seguente modo per quanto riguarda la gioia. CEI "la gioia inaridita"; A. Martini "e lungi ito il gaudio"; G. Luzzi "la gioia venuta meno"; G. Diodati "la letizia si seccata"; Marietti "la gioia svanita"; The Interliner Hebrew Aramaic OLDO TESTAMENT "La gioia si seccata." Queste traduzioni mettono in risalto che, a motivo del fatto che tutti gli alberi della campagna si erano seccati, causa della mancata pioggia, gli agricoltori che avevano coltivato i campi e che i vari alberi da frutta non avevano dato i loro frutti, non solo venivano privati dalla gioia di una buona raccolta, ma anche le loro fatiche perdute, visto che il lavoro che avevano fatto non era stato ricompensato. Quindi, almeno per quell'anno, la gioia era venuta meno e il sorriso delle loro labbra era scomparso. Il sostantivo femminile "gioia," secondo la versione che stiamo adoperando che la Nuova Riveduta, presente nella Bibbia 281 volte; 179 dei quali negli scritti dell'A.T., 51 volte nel libro dei Salmi e 57 volte nel N.T. Poich l'argomento della gioia molto importante ed ha un notevole valore, sia per le cose materiali concernenti la vita umana e terrena e sia soprattutto per le realt spirituali riguardanti, le varie esperienze che si fanno durante l'esistenza umana sulla terra, prenderemo in esame i vari testi biblici, cos che possiamo avere un completo panorama di ci che la Bibbia ha da insegnarci su questo specifico tema. Naturalmente, i vari passi biblici che parlano della gioia che esamineremo, prima li analizzeremo nei contesti nei quali menzionata e in secondo tempo distingueremo se si tratta di una gioia che ha a che fare con le cose terrene, o se si riferisce realt spirituali, collegate con le varie esperienze spirituali, come per esempio la gioia della salvezza, del perdono dei peccati, di un risveglio spirituale, inteso come manifestazione dello Spirito di Dio e della speranza della gloria per l'eternit , nella casa del Padre.
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