Ira - The Life and Times of a Princess

A breathtakingly beautiful photo-narrative biography of the incredible life of Princess Ira von Fürstenberg - half Austro-Hungarian Princess, half Agnelli: model, actress, princess, socialite, heiress, mother, and jewellery designer.
Bursting onto front-page news in 1955 at the age of 15 in a jewel-laden gondola-wedding in the last great assembly of European nobility, Princess Ira von Fürstenberg swung into the spotlight and has never left.
Subject for master photographers Cecil Beaton and Helmut Newton, among others, actress alongside Klaus Kinski and Peter Lawford, and model for Vogue's Diana Vreeland, Princess Ira has been an actress, model, muse, mother, socialite, jewellery designer, and creator of objets d'art. On and off screen, in and out of the flashbulb, Ira's life - or, more accurately, lives - reads like a history of the jet set.
More than just a chronicle of a gorgeously fascinating life, this lavish photographic biography is a truly sumptuous snapshot of the glamour and charm of a lost era, a prism through which to see the world of European royalty, Italian cinema in its heyday, couture at most haute, and parties at their wildest.

About the author

Nicholas Foulkes has written for most national newspapers in Britain at one time or another in the last 25 years. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, FT How to Spend It, and The Rake. He is also a columnist on Country Life and is international arts correspondent on Newsweek. He is an internationally recognised authority on luxury travel, material culture, timepieces and the arts.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Foulkes, Nick Foulkes, Foulkes Nicholas
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2018
• EAN: 9780008267902
• ISBN: 978-0-00-826790-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 283 mm x 307 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; austria, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography: royalty, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)