Tiffany in fashion /

"Tiffany in Fashion is a varitable visual feast - with 250 glamorous images tracing the simultaneous growth of fashion photography and fine jewelry design. Throughout the past century and beyond, invention and fantasy have gone hand in hand with straightforward chic, resulting in a glorious variety of photographic styles and imagery.". "Elaborate Hollywood-inspired scenarios of the 1930s and 1940s by Edward Steichen, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen Huene, and others contrast with the elegant simplicity of Richard Avedon's 1960s portrait for Harper's Bazaar of Elizabeth Taylor's bare back bedecked in exquisite Tiffany cultured pearls. Photographers have mined the luminaries of popular culture - from Suzy Parker, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Sophia Loren to Cindy Crawford, Isabella Rossellini, and Kate Winslet - in search of the right model to showcase the clothes and jewels on display. In some cases, designers became their own best models, exemplified by Helmut Newton's famous portrait of Elsa Peretti as a Playboy bunny and Herb Ritts's stunning shot of Paloma Picasso wearing one of her own pendants."--BOOK JACKET.