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There was always an old woman dying in the back room of her family's house when Isla was a child. Isla Larsen Sanchez's life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts leaving...

"There was always an old woman dying in the back room of her grandmother's house when Isla was a child... Isla Larsen Sanchez's life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts...

"Whū, he hākari! Mō te aha te hākari Matariki? I a Grandma rāua ko Pōua e kawe ana i ngā tamariki ki te rama tuna i tētahi pō tarakaka, i raro i ngā whetū kānapanapa, i kōrero rātou mō ngā whakaritenga mō te hākari Matariki, me ngā whetū motuhake...

'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back, none of that was ever talked about . . . We felt it was a suicide mission.' July 1942: the...

Glossy is a story of more than a magazine. It is a story of passion and power, dizzying fortune and out-of-this-world fashion, of ingenuity and opportunism, frivolity and malice. This is the definitive story of Vogue. Vogue magazine started, like...