Word: seebohm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...VOGUE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CONDÉ NAST by Caroline Seebohm Viking; 390 pages...
...described in this sturdy biography by Caroline Seebohm, a Vogue contributor who was given access to company files, Nast was not quite what he seemed. He was a parvenu from the provinces, raised in St. Louis, the second son of a ne'er-do-well speculator. Through a Georgetown University classmate, he landed a job at Collier's Weekly, and by 1909 had learned enough about publishing to buy an obscure high-society weekly journal. He improved everything-the paper, the fashion drawings, the photography, the writing-and within a decade Vogue became the nation's most...
...wise move. Nast knew almost nothing about fashion. "Until the day he died, he could not tell you why a certain model was good or bad," writes Seebohm. "But he was a connoisseur of women. His respect for them as colleagues was topped only by his appreciation of them as romantic inspiration...