God is in the Details

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If you were a fan of Domino magazine, then you remember Lili Diallo's amazing styling skills. I'm very excited that her new book Details: A Stylist's Secrets to Creating Inspired Interiors has just been released so we can all learn from the master. Also seemed like a good time to revisit her Brooklyn loft. It's like the American version of Loulou de la Falaise's Paris apartment. Enjoy!

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God is in the Details

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Working Girl

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"If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

There are not one but two fabulous new books that chronicle the more than two decades that Jackie Kennedy Onassis spent as a book editor. Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Greg Lawrence which you can read an excerpt from in the January 2011 issue of Vanity Fair and Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn. For most of her life, Jackie was defined by the men in her life but it wasn't until she started to work that she really came into her own. Jackie was said to have nurtured her authors, many of whom left Doubleday after her death because they couldn't bear working there without her. I was surprised to learn that she worked with Diana Vreeland on her book Allure which was recently rereleased. Vreeland's grandson, Nicholas Vreeland, remembers Jackie coming over to Diana's apartment to work on it. I can't wait to read both books and see what else she helped to publish!

Diana Vreeland and Jackie Kennedy Onassis

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Working Girl

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"If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Diana Vreeland and Jackie Kennedy Onassis

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Reporting in Style

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Whenever I visit Barneys, I love to check out the books on the 9th floor. I came across one book recently that is especially chic. In English it's called Reporting in Style and in French, Collection Privée. Regardless of the name, the photographs by Benno Graziani will speak for themselves. Benno Graziani was one of the founders of Paris Match along with Daniel Filipacchi and Willy Rizzo. He told British Vogue, "Match was our little club. There were no editors meetings because we hardly spent time apart from each other - and it worked! Some editions sold more than two million copies...very quickly we were the best. The worlds press envied us and tried in vain to imitate us." He also became friends with many of his subjects including Jackie Kennedy Onassis who invited him on vacation with her. "She (Jackie) began as a reporter-photographer and led a truly exceptional life, a fairy tale transformed into Greek tragedy. Today she is part of history," Graziani added. "There are people who make history, those who endure it, and those who tell about it. That's me."