Betts, Kate
Summary: As a young woman, Kate Betts nursed a dream of striking out on her own in a faraway place and becoming a glamorous foreign correspondent. After college--and not without trepidation--she took off for Paris, renting a room in the apartment of a young BCBG (bon chic, bon genre) family and throwing herself into the local culture. She was determined to master French slang, style, and savoir faire,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BETTS, KATE BETSummary: Paris, Capital of Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This lavishly-illustrated book is edited by MFIT's director and chief curator, Valerie Steele, also the author of the acclaimed Paris Fashion: A Cultural History. This new book opens with an important essay on how and why...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.92 PARDrake, Alicia
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sabbatical Entertainment's exclusive documentary admires Christian Dior, the famous French fashion designer whose post-World War II creations were wildly popular and whose legacy continues to influence the industry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OHBerest, Anne
Summary: "Four fabulous, smart, savvy French women offer up their highly amusing insider take on Parisian life, love, and liberty How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are brilliantly deconstructs the French woman's views on culture, fashion, and attitude. Unlike other books on French style, this one is full of wit and self-deprecating humor. The authors--Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline De Maigret, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 BERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 BERSummary: A Cinderella story about an inconspicuous salesgirl who is whisked off to Paris by a group of fashion magazine sophisticates and is transformed into a dazzling model with whom the magazine's photographer falls in love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD FUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Funny 1957Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FUNKrantz, Judith.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRAPochna, Marie France
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIOR, CHRISTIAN PochnaSteel, Danielle.
Summary: In Paris, France, Minnie, a long-haired teacup chihuahua who loves to dress up, gets separated from her fashion-loving owner, Francoise, at a fashion show.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE STEMay, Peter
Summary: A thriller that alternates between the glamorous fashion world of Paris and the rugged beauty of the Isle of Harris in the Scottish Hebrides. When a fabric entrepreneur is killed in a car explosion in Paris, Niamh, his wife and business partner, becomes the prime suspect. The Parisian police continue to hound her when she returns to Harris to bury her husband's remains. After an attempt is made...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYSummary: The owner of Montmartre's most notorious nightspot, the Café Le Bal Du Paradis, Simone Pistache spends a great deal of her time in court, thanks to the banning of that "lewd and lascivious" dance, the Can-Can. So when her nightlife-loving lawyer and boyfriend, François Durnais, refuses to settle down and marry her, Simone decides to play up to his rival in romance, Parisian judge Philipe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CANSummary: Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to live with his divorced father and womanizing, slacking younger brother, Jonathan. With little success, his carefree sibling and doting father try to cheer him up with women, wine, and home-cooked meals. When, in the midnight hour, Paul is forced to entertain one of his brother's desperate girlfriends, he begins to realize that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DANSummary: When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAV RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DALester, Natasha
Summary: "Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor, but, as an orphan, never truly felt part of that world. In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, she lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills-persuasion, daring, quick-witted under pressure-catch the attention of the U.S. government and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023