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Vamos a jugar al juego del teléfono. Ese en el que alguien cuenta una historia que pasa de boca a oreja para llegar al final de la cadena notablemente alterada y, seamos sinceros, bastante mejorada. Pues bien, el origen de esta cadena no es otro que el gran Chiquito de la Calzada y la historia, su propia vida. Una existencia plagada de peripecias, amor y, por supuesto, mucho humor. De Andalucía a Japón y de regreso, de los tablados de flamenco a los platós de la televisión y el cine, éste es el relato de un ascenso insospechado a la cima del mundo del espectáculo. Una travesía que,...

SPECIAL KINDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Fifty contemporary, cutting-edge photo-graphers open our eyes to the magical artificiality embraced by fashion photography today: chronicling the very processes of fashion, fashion photography is like fashion itself - it celebrates the immediate, the frivolous and the ephemeral. The striking images in this book playfully flirt with superficiality as readily as they take on the more established aesthetic conventions of art photography. Ingrained with paradox and contradiction fashion photography mirrors the moods and desired of the moment. And more:...

We're all subject to the will of fashion, even without our knowledge and against our will. With a basis in this premise, Guillaume Erner tells an irony-filled story of the mechanisms of the fashion world: How are trends created? What role do designers play? What do brands do? And, above all, what does it mean to become an authentic fashion victim? La moda es una mentira en la que todo el mundo quiere creer'. Aunque nadie nos obliga, todos estamos sujetos al deber de la moda, incluso sin saberlo y contra nuestra voluntad. Con la obsesión del parecer, nuevos síntomas nacen y proliferan en...

This lavishly illustrated volume examines, in over 400 pages, the best that flying has to offer, from grand airports to elegant stewardesses to the luxury of first-class cabins and private jets. With a historical over view from the development of the "flying boats" of the 1930s, to the opulence of a personal Learjet and the shear size of the Airbus A380 of the future. This stylish and informative book will interest those for whom flying is more than travel, but a passion and experience to be savoured in all of its elegance. Book jacket.