Overview
The Star Shiner poses the question: Can a young man from a small rural Kentucky town--fleeing a domineering mother and an abusive, alcoholic father--find recognition and happiness in New York city, working with the high-powered fashion and cosmetic industries, and with some of the world's most famous people--without losing his values and his soul? After a notable career in fashion illustration and modeling in Paris, Richardson becomes a makeup artist, working with Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and photographers Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Frecesco Scavullo. The book is more than a celebrity memoir in that it is particularly a narrative of the '70s into the '90s, a time in New York's history of financial difficulties and corruption. This was the golden era of fashion and cosmetics when Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland, Charles Revson and Estee Lauder, the king and queen of cosmetics and Avedon, Penn and Scavullo ruled the industries. The reader is taken into wild nights at Studio 54 and into New York's downtown after-hours dungeons, seething with sex, drugs and danger, where individuals are treated as sexual stepping stones. Then the party ended with the scourge of AIDS that took Richardson's partner and turned Richardson's life around with a spiritual awakening.
Full Product Details
Author: Evan Richardson
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.435kg
ISBN: 9780786470969
ISBN 10: 0786470968
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 23 May 2013
Recommended Age: From 18 years
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order 
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface 1. Coming to Town, Modeling in Paris 2. Back to New York, Montgomery Clift, Fabergé 3. A Naked Tallulah Bankhead, Vogue Calls 4. Vreeland, Avedon and Life with Tallulah 5. Lucille Ball; Tallulah Dies 6. An Affair in L.A., Make-Up Competition 7. Katharine Hepburn, Helen Hayes, Joan Sutherland and Bette Davis 8. Bette Midler and No, No, Nanette 9. Michael: The Young Man Who Would Change My Life Forever 10. David Bowie and Gloria Vanderbilt 11. Barbara Walters, Supermodels, the Bee Gees and Studio 54 12. Gilda Radner, Muhammad Ali and Washington, D.C. 13. AIDS Awareness, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Liza Minnelli and Love 14. Liz Taylor and Me 15. Julie Andrews, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra; Michael Dies of AIDS 16. Rose Kennedy, Shirley MacLaine and Al-Anon 17. Fear in the Streets, Drew Barrymore, Madonna; My Mother Dies 18. The Funeral, Studio 54 Closes, the Wind Down 19. Paul Newman, L.A. Revisited, the Kiss-Off 20. Empty Pockets, Helen Gurley Brown’s Party, Finding Myself Index
Reviews
this engaging, cathartic memoir written by a pioneering fashion and makeup industry artist and cultural historian provides valuable insights into a life fully lived and a remarkable career --<i>Midwest Book Review</i>; Richardson's memoir captures the personalities of the New York fashion scene in the later 20th century --<i>Beauty: the Guide</i>; Evan really captures the feel of the era! --Liz Smith, <i>NY Social Diary</i>; a lot of stellar juice...Richardson does a bang-up job on the mise en scene of an era and people...a fascinating historical document --<i>Huff Post Entertainment</i>; this engaging, cathartic memoir written by a pioneering fashion and makeup industry artist and cultural historian provides valuable insights into a life fully lived and a remarkable career --Linda Hitchcock, member National Book Critics Circle.
Author Information
The late Evan Richardson was a make-up artist, fashion illustrator, writer, composer and teacher. He lived in New York City.
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