News of the World and Little Missy's Reading Round Up

 

The Royal Christening and Two Groovy Uncles!

That little Prince George sure has two groovy looking uncles.  Prince Harry we know all about, but this other one, Uncle James with the beard looks to be a groovy contender as well.  And isn't he in the party planning business with social butterfly little sister Pippa and his parents?  These guys will be jamming out the best parties on the planet!  This little Prince George does not have a chance to be an old bore.  Hopefully Kensington Palace will be Party Central and London will live up to its old name Swinging London!  And Sarah Burton can keep on banging out fabulous creations for Mamaquin Kate to model!  Well done, Windsors and Middletons!  Little Missy approves!

 

Kanye Rents Out AT&T Park to Propose to Kim Kardashian!

You hit this one out of the ballpark, Kanye!  The San Francisco Giants rock and so do you!

 

George Lucas Gets Honoured by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art!

George Lucas with Alyssa Fung and Little Missy, photographed by Frederic Aranda

 

 

Yes, the Star Wars Wizard himself picked up a Bay Area Treasure award, bestowed annually by SFMOMA to a living legend in the arts who was born or who has worked in the Bay Area.  Joni Binder, President Emeritus of Modern Art Council of which Little Missy is a proud member, worked tirelessly for two and a half years to make this stellar night happen.  Good work Joni!  Congratulations, George!  You changed everything in motion pictures and no one deserves this award more than you. And yes, the dress I am wearing is Rodarte!

 

Joni Binder with husband Robert Shwarts. Joni's wearing Rodarte, too!

 

 

 

Well that's it for News of the world!  Let's go to Reading Round Up!  I'm calling this one Little Missy's Must Reads for the Educated Fashionista.  There are a ton of books out there so  let's not be boring.  I will just cut to the chase and tell you three ones that are not necessarily fashion reads but will put you that much more in the know about fashion.

 

Dior by Dior

Some people think it started with Chanel.  Some people think it started with Balenciaga.  Some people think it started with Yves Saint Laurent.  Personally, I believe it started with a caveman killing a leopard and presenting it to his cave woman, who fashioned the skin into a sarong.  Little Missy loves animals, but almost surely what I have just described is  the start of haute couture.  And then there is Christian Dior.  This little book, Dior by Dior, is the most profound book I have ever read on the subject of fashion.   This man's genius and humanity shines through every page, and his modesty is a virtue a few of today's designers could incorporate into their megalomaniac personas.

 

All We Know by Lisa Cohen is a book of genius, a biography at the highest level of the discipline.  The lives of three woman, all as nutty as fruitcakes and utterly compelling spring forth and the reader compulsively turns the page.  One woman is a tour de force of eighteenth and nineteenth century intellectual history (Little Missy's great love, BTW) who cannot commit a single brilliant thought to paper.  One is a stalker of Greta Garbo and one was the first editor of British Vogue.  Trust me and read this book!  You will be more fashionable when you have finished it.

A great read

 

Finally, it's one of the sadder books I have read, but I must recommend Alone Together by Teddy Getty Gaston.  This is also a compulsive page turner.  Teddy was John Paul Getty's last wife, and this is Teddy's compelling story of life with the difficult and complicated Getty. Teddy is a generation or two removed from Little Missy, and is more forgiving in her tone, and when you read what John Paul Getty was like as a husband and father, you will not be as forgiving!  You must remember that this was a different time and era, the Stork Club!  World War II!  Cigarettes and cocktails and debutantes and love affairs.  The whole nine yards.  It is a bird's eye view of what it was like to live with a man like John Paul Getty.  Obviously, nearly impossible!  Little Missy says get this book!  You will not be disappointed.  Maybe a little sad, but what a read!

Little Missy's idea of a good read

 

Well, that's it for Little Missy for this week!  Happy Halloween!  Be in the moment since the possibilities are just so endless!