50 SHADES

If you have to buy a book with 50 shades in the title, make it this fun coffee table book "50 Shades"
by Lauren Goldstein-Crowe.  A writer who has written about the fashion industry for over 20 years, she has written for numerous publications including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the Times.  She has appeared as fashion expert on CNN and Bloomberg TV.

Lauren is also the author of Isabella blow a life in fashion and The Towering World of Jimmy Choo.

50 Shades published on the 21st November by Reel Art Press, has some stunning photography from the archives of Getty Images and features some of the most celebrated icons of the 20th century.

This unique book features 50 carefully selected icons from the world of literature, music, film and politics, they are some of the most glamorous and infamous people of the modern era.

Photographed wearing shades, the images speak volumes about how the celebrities see themselves and want us to see them.  This book also illustrates how some of the most fascinating figures in popular culture dealt with public scrutiny.


Marilyn Monroe helped create the idea that hiding behind sunglasses made you special


Jackie Onassis the doyenne of the biggest shades, kept a bowl of sunglasses by the door so she would never leave the house without them.  one way to hide your face form the world.  


 Jack Nicholson said "with shades i'm Jack Niclson, without them i'm fat and 60". 


Steve McQueen's shades worn in the movie The Thomas Crown Affair, sold for $70,000 at auction in 2006


James Coburn 


Faye Dunaway


Sophia Loren 


Robert Redford 


Andy Warhol 


Catherine Deneuve

Yves Saint Laurent 

50 Shades by Lauren Goldstein-Crowe is published by Reel Art Press on 21st November in
hardback £19.95