Download or read book Beau Brummell written by Ian Kelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable." -- Beau Brummell Long before tabloids and television, Beau Brummell was the first person famous for being famous, the male socialite of his time, the first metrosexual -- 200 years before the word was conceived. His name has become synonymous with wit, profligacy, fine tailoring, and fashion. A style pundit, Brummell was singly responsible for changing forever the way men dress -- inventing, in effect, the suit. Brummell cut a dramatic swath through British society, from his early years as a favorite of the Prince of Wales and an arbiter of taste in the Age of Elegance, to his precipitous fall into poverty, incarceration, and madness. Brummell created the blueprint for celebrity crash and burn, falling dramatically out of favor and spending his last years in a hellish asylum. For nearly two decades, Brummell ruled over the tastes and pursuits of the well heeled and influential, and for almost as long, lived in penury and exile. With vivid prose, critically acclaimed biographer Ian Kelly unlocks the glittering, turbulent world of late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century London -- the first truly modern metropolis: venal, fashion-and-celebrity obsessed, self-centered and self-doubting -- through the life of one of its greatest heroes and most tragic victims. Brummell personified London's West End, where a new style of masculinity and modern men's fashion were first defined. Brummell was the leading Casanova and elusive bachelor of his time, appealing to both men and women of his society. The man Lord Byron once claimed was more important than Napoleon, Brummell was the ultimate cosmopolitan man. "Toyboy" to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and leader of playboys including the eventual king of England, Brummell inspired Pushkin to write Eugene Onegin, and Byron to write Don Juan, and he influenced others from Oscar Wilde to Coco Chanel. Through love letters, historical records, and poems, Kelly reveals the man inside the suit, unlocking the scandalous behavior of London's high society while illuminating Brummell's enigmatic life in the colorful, tumultuous West End. A rare rendering of an era filled with excess, scandal, promiscuity, opulence, and luxury, Beau Brummell is the first comprehensive view of an elegant and ultimately tragic figure whose influence continues to this day.

Download or read book The Life of George Brummell Esq Commonly Called Beau Brummell written by William Jesse and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of George Brummell Esq Commonly Called Beau Brummell written by William Jesse and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Africa s Naked Tribe Life and Times of Naturist Beau Brummell written by Michael F. Bush and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop star Beau, on British television with Tom Jones and Rolling Stones. Going nude with beautiful German Fraulein's in Hamburg. Cowboy movies with Clint Eastwood in Rome, to opening the first nudist colony in South Africa, Nelson Mandela's rainbow nation.

Download or read book The life of George Brummell commonly called Beau Brummell by William Jesse written by William Jesse and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Of Dandyism and of George Brummell written by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Who Is a Dandy written by George Walden and published by . This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dandyism has made an amazing come-back after 200 years, with people like David Beckham and Jarvis Cocker leading the field and everyone else following. This book is both a biography of the famous English dandy George Brummell's life and an examination of what it takes to be a dandy.

Download or read book Regency Buck written by Georgette Heyer and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An altogether unsatisfactory arrangement After their father's death, Miss Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine travel to London to meet their guardian, Lord Worth, expecting an elderly gentleman. To their surprise and utter disgust, their guardian is not much older than they are, doesn't want the office of guardian any more than they want him, and is determined to thwart all their interests and return them to the country. With altogether too many complications But when Miss Taverner and Peregrine begin to move in the highest social circles, Lord Worth cannot help but entangle himself with his adventuresome wards... Praise for Regency Buck: "Clever!"— Library Journal "Georgette Heyer is unbeatable."— Sunday Telegraph "Light and frothy, in the vein of the author's other Regency novels, this follows the fortunes of Miss Judith Taverner and her brother, Sir Peregrine. A good introduction to Heyer's period stories..." — The Booklist "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."— Publishers Weekly "A writer of great wit and style... I've read her books to ragged shreds"— Katie Fenton, Daily Telegraph "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire too."—Katie Fforde

Download or read book The Life of George Brummell Esq commonly Called Beau Brummell written by Jesse (Captain) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of Beau Brummell written by William Jesse and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of Beau Brummell written by William Jesse and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British Dandies written by Dominic James and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dressy men as a type of celebrity have played a distinctive part in the cultural - and even in the political - life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipster, the dandies of the British past provoked intense degrees of fascination and horror in their homeland and played an important role in British society from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. This book - illustrated with contemporary prints, portraits and caricatures - explores that social and cultural history through a focus on the macaroni, the dandy and the aesthete. The first was noted for his flamboyance, the second for his austere perfectionism and the third for his sexual perversity. All were highly controversial in their time, pioneering new ways of displaying and performing gender, as demonstrated by the impact of key figures such as Lord Hervey, George 'Beau' Brummell and Oscar Wilde. This groundbreaking study tells the scandalous story of fashionable men and their clothes as a reflection of changing attitudes not only to style but also to gender and sexuality.

Download or read book The Life of George Brummel written by Jesse and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beau Brummell written by Ron Hutchinson and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2001-03-06 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the legendary British dandy who cut a swathe through late Georgian society. At his zenith, Brummell, a favorite of the Prince of Wales, redefined men's fashion and masculinity. This play traces his final precipitous fall into poverty and madness.

Download or read book The life of George Brummell commonly called beau Brummell written by William Jesse and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New English Dandy written by Alice Cicolini and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once a fashion handbook and a treasure trove of ideas tailored to the modern male or metrosexual, this book is destined to be the bible of men's dressy style, its accoutrements and lifestyle accompaniments. Six chapters define six takes on the 21st-century dandy, each featuring a specially commissioned 16-page fashion shoot, and eight pages of bespoke inspiration, instruction, interviews and insight. The New English Dandy sets the standard for today's new man about town.

Download or read book The Bloodied Cravat written by Rosemary Stevens and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2003-05-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving at the estate of Frederica, Duchess of York, Beau learns that his luggage was stolen--including an indiscreet letter that Freddie wrote to him which can embroil them both in scandal. But when another guest is murdered, Beau cannot allow her to be accused.