Bright Young Things: New York [Hardcover]

Brooke de Ocampo (Author), Jonathan Becker (Photographer), William Norwich (Introduction)

Book Description

Series: Bright Young Things | Publication Date: January 2002

Who set's today's new trends? At the beginning of a new millennium, who is it that defines what is fashionable, who has the true will to create, who knows how to make glamour a lifestyle? Bright Young Things introduces us to some of the most prominent members of America's younger generation, the high-flyers who set the style, pace and attitudes of their time such as Alexandra and Alexandre von Furstenberg, Aerin Lauder and Eric Zinterhofer, Damian Loeb, Moby, Marina Rust, Andrew Lauren, Serena Altschul, to name a few. And what makes this young, dynamic, styleish group quite interesting, visible and somewhat powerful, is that they are all extremely accomplished individuals in their personal lives, as well as being very accomplished leaders in their relative fields - business, arts, literature, music, movie production, fashion designing, etc. We discover their house, interior and the lives they lead. With contributions by Bill Blass, Brooke Astor, Oscar de la Renta, Diane von Furstenberg, Anh Duong, Carolina Herrera, among others.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Assouline (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2843232058
• ISBN-13: 978-2843232053
• Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 9.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,084,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Please don't further fuel these people's narcissism, September 22, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Bright Young Things: New York (Hardcover)

You know, my grandmother always taught me that wealth and success were blessings to be appreciated and contemplated in private, and to be grateful for because they are distributed unequally and can disappear at any time. I have to wonder what these people's families taught them, besides the lie that money makes you important and you have this wealth because you are somehow just better than other people. The vulgarity and transparent social ambition of the participants in this book just make the whole exercise in narcissism that much more lame. The bad design, bad attitudes, bad values, and ignorance on display here show a real waste of the doubtless costly education lavished on these children of vanity and greed. They would be pitiable if they weren't so arrogant.

And their apartments are mostly just really ugly.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars reader, December 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Bright Young Things: New York (Hardcover)

Normally I enjoy this kind of thing, but this book is embarassing. Who sets the trends? Not these people. Cast a net over a random crowd in New York City and you would be hard pressed to come up with a more under-acheiving, untalented bunch. Stylish? Even the photographer seems hard pressed for material. Images and decors are surprisingly banal, substandard even for the magazines this big, expensive book resembles. The text can only have been generated by under-educated robots running PR programs. Don't they have spell check?

34 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ha! I know most of these people and..., March 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Bright Young Things: New York (Hardcover)

My husband and I know most of these people from college and the New York party circuit and let me tell you this book is a joke! If you think that these women really have "careers" or grace and style of their own then we have a bridge in this town which you might be interested in purchasing to go along with your copy of this book...Brooke is preying on their vanities and insecurities in order to boost her profile-although from the quality of her writing you can tell that she is not much more intelligent than the BYT's. Her subjects are fun people however to admire them would be not only inappropriate but foolish-let's just say I laughed so hard, this book should listed under "humour".