Thursday, February 11, 2010

Fashion Book--Zelda Fitzgerald

This week, I am reading The Crack-Up, a book of essays, letters, and excerpts from the notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald. As such, I've decided to do this week's fashion book feature on Zelda Fitzgerald--not a character per se, but a legend in her own right.

Zelda, Fitzgerald's wife, figures as strongly into the myth of jazz age decadence as F. Scott himself. A Southern belle, Zelda was a dancer with a firecracker personality. Tragically, she spent the last years of her life in various sanitariums, and died in a fire at Highland Hospital in 1948, nearly 8 years after her estranged husband's death in 1940.

Zelda:


Here's what I think Zelda would wear were she alive today:
Fashion Book--Zelda Fitzgerald


Alexander McQueen Clutch--a truly tragic loss for fashion. He will be missed!

4 comments:

  1. I've also heard she was a phenomenal writer herself. I have her book on hold at the library.

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  2. Oh-so-very adorable! Those shoes... I die! You should totally put together a cute look from your closet in the spirit of these characters and share those pics with us too! I love your idea. You = the cutest. XOXO

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  3. let me know what you think of that book! i'll put it on my list of to-reads :)

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  4. hi.. love the dress and the look..so romantic!

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