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The Way We Wore: A Life in Clothes - Softcover

Selfe, Daphne

 
9781447291930: The Way We Wore: A Life in Clothes
Softcover
ISBN 10: 144729193X ISBN 13: 9781447291930
Verlag: Pan, 2016

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Daphne Selfe has been photographed by Mario Testino, Nick Knight and David Bailey. She has modelled for Dolce and Gabbana, Red or Dead and high-street chains such as TK Maxx, and regularly appears in newspaper fashion pages and glossy magazines. She is one of Britain's most in-demand supermodels and has worked non-stop for almost twenty years. But what makes her really rather extraordinary is that she is now in her late eighties.

Daphne grew up in an age when dresses were lovingly run up for you by your mother, when needlework for even the most basic outfit was an art form, and when a new Simplicity Pattern was almost more exciting than a new dance tune. Perhaps as a result, she has had a lifelong love affair with clothes and fashion. The Way We Wore is a heart-warming account of that love affair, taking readers from the organdie party frocks of a 1930s childhood to the pages of Vogue.

In it, Daphne shares a wealth of anecdotes from her peripatetic childhood, following her teacher father from school to school, from her modelling career, which began as a department store house model, and from her long and happy marriage. The result is a vivid and inspiring memoir from a woman who has always embraced life and who continues to do so in her ninth decade with as much zest as in her first.

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Born in 1928, Daphne Selfe grew up in London and the Home Counties, before being sent to boarding school during the Second World War. Just after her twenty-first birthday she won a local magazine cover girl competition and joined the Gaby Young Agency in London, where she trained to be a model. She has been an artist's model, a house model and a commercial model, appearing in advertisements for anything from clothes to breakfast cereal to gin. Happily married for many years to Jim Smith, who worked in theatre and television production, Daphne stopped modelling and moved to Hertfordshire, where she still lives, to bring up their three children. But when her husband died after a long illness, she was suddenly rediscovered - at the age of seventy. She has been working continuously ever since. She has told her extraordinary story in her memoirs, The Way We Wore.

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'Proves that growing old might be compulsory but growing up is optional' Red

Daphne Selfe has been photographed by Mario Testino, Nick Knight and David Bailey and is, in her late eighties, one of Britain's most in-demand supermodels.

Growing up at a time when dresses were run up for you by your mother and a new Simplicity Pattern was more exciting than a new dance tune, Daphne has had a lifelong love affair with clothes and fashion. This heart-warming memoir takes readers from the organdie party frocks of a 1930s childhood to the twenty-first century catwalk. It provides women everywhere with a vivid example of how to embrace life and everything it offers, no matter how old - or young - you are.

'A love letter to a life of dressing up - on camera and off' Daily Mail

'Should be prescribed to ditherers, fretters and the overly introspective as a crash course in bucking up' The Times

'A must-have for every fashionista's bookshelf!' Prima

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Verlag
Pan
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
144729193X
ISBN 13 
9781447291930
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
312
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