Bright Young Things : London [Hardcover]

Brooke De Ocampo (Author), Fleur Cowles (Author), Jonathan Becker (Author)

Book Description

Series: Bright Young Things | Publication Date: April 2002

Brooke de Ocampo invites us back into the homes of Bright Young Things, only this time she opens the doors to London's most stylish and enterprising trendsetters. Bright Young Things London is the highly anticipated follow-up to the successful New York edition. This lush, elegant book is an enthralling journey through the homes of the most envied and emulated residents of one of the world's most envied and emulated residents of one of the world's most exciting cities. Step inside the fabulous lives of 40 architects, artists, designers, and writers to discover why they embody everything London is known for: wit, cutting-edge style, and glamour. Along with elegant photographs by Vanity Fair photographer Jonathan Becker are intimate anecdotes written by the people who know these bright young things best: Claus von Bulow writes about his daughter Cosima; Ewan and Eve MacGregor rave about the home David Adjaye designed for them; Michael Kors fawns over his muse, Kim Hersov; and Paul Smith writes about Robert Violette. Bright Young Things London captures the spirit of the city while paying tribute to its international influences. It is just as addictive in London as it was in New York.

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About the Author

Brooke de Ocampo is the author of Bright Young Things - the highly successful first edition on New York. Mother of three young girls, she recently moved to London. Formerly a contributor at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in New York, de Ocampo currently contributes to Harper's & Queen in London; Jonathan Becker (Photographer) is a contributing photographer at Vanity Fair and Vogue. He lives in New York City; Fleur Cowles (Foreward) was the publisher of Flair, the landmark magazine of the '50s. She lives in London.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Assouline (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2843233372
• ISBN-13: 978-2843233371
• Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 9.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,039,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Just like the original ... and less!, April 28, 2003

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This review is from: Bright Young Things : London (Hardcover)

Brooke de Ocampo has hied herself to London and produced a book that does for the brilliant, educated, and exceptionally wealthy young elite of that city what her earlier title did for their counterparts in New York. The difference this time, unfortunately, is that she decided to let other Bright Young Things do the writing as well as open their homes and pose for photographs. And so while the writing in the original BYT was relatively unobjectionable celebrity journalism, a good deal of the writing in BYT London doesn't even rise to that level. On the other hand, the introduction by Nicholas Coleridge runs rings around its BYT counterpart by William Norwich, if only because it's so much less gushing in its praise for the people being profiled.

Apart from the writing, though, this book is a lot like the first one. Beautiful people, beautiful homes, beautiful children, beautiful photos. The selection of people covered seems, if anything, slightly broader than that in BYT. Whatever your reaction to the first book, I imagine it'll be about the same to this one ... unless, perhaps, you happen to be, or be related to, one of the people featured in it.