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PublisherReel Art Press The Limited

ISBN-100956648738

ISBN-139780956648730

eBay Product ID (ePID)204252733

Product Key Features

Book TitleHollywood and the Ivy Look

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

TopicSubjects & Themes / Celebrity, Subjects & Themes / Fashion

IllustratorYes

GenrePhotography

AuthorJ. P. Gall, Graham Marsh

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight77.6 Oz

Item Length11.8 in

Item Width9.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-507751

ReviewsPhoto-Op: Film Prep We live in the slob era, a wasteland of sagging jeans, rumpled T-shirts and slapping flip-flops. And that's just Hollywood. You don't have to look all the way back to a tuxedo-clad Cary Grant circa 1938 to lament the demise of movie stylishness. 'Hollywood and the Ivy Look' (Reel Art, 286 pages, $75) recalls the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s when, as authors Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh put it, 'Hollywood hipsters appropriated the incomparable Ivy League clothing of America's East Coast elite.' Onscreen and off, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Montgomery Clift and many another actor--the Ivy look was largely a male preserve, much as the schools were--wore 'button-down and tab collar shirts, Bass Weejun loafers and Alden plain cap brogues, cashmere and alpaca sweaters' and other products of the Brooks Brothers sensibility. We see Anthony Perkins (above, with Patrizia Mangano) looking so young that he might still be in college, and Robert Redford wearing a suit and skinny tie for "Barefoot in the Park' (1967) that would set the hearts of 'Mad Men' fans aflutter. Not all of the looks are so enticing--upgrading Ivy style with a cravat did no favors for James Garner, Robert Wagner or Jason Robards, and Newman's own ascot is the worst of the lot--but this book captures what may have been the last time anyone looked admiringly at the clothes that stars wore. And not a drop of tattoo ink in sight! --The Editors, December 24, 2011, The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal779.974692

SynopsisIn the decade between 1955 and 1965 a coterie of discerning Hollywood hipsters appropriated the incomparable Ivy League clothing of America's East coast elite. These West Coast actors elevated the Ivy look to the height of cool and defined a quintessentially American male dress code for a new generation of movie audiences. This book delivers a pictorial celebration of the look and attitude of 'Ivy'., In the decade between 1955 and 1965 a coterie of discerning Hollywood hipsters appropriated the incomparable Ivy League clothing of America's East coast elite. These West Coast actors elevated the Ivy look to the height of cool and defined a quintessentially American male dress code for a new generation of movie audiences. With the autumn/winter men's catwalk for 2011 continuing to take its inspiration from Ivy, its origins and enduring appeal are celebrated in this stunning photographic tome, published for the first time by Reel Art Press., This stylish photographic book celebrates the look and attitude of 'Ivy' and how it gained its place in history as the look of modern America.

LC Classification NumberTR679.N68 2011