If you’re a Jackie Collins fan, then you’re a fan of the Santangelos. The two are mutually exclusive in my book (pun intended). If you have no idea what I’m talking about, I’ll clue you in. Icon and novelist, Jackie Collins has written 31 books over the course of her career, all of which have appeared on The New York Times bestsellers list. And it’s because they suck you in, murder, betrayal, love, lust all run through the eccentric characters. Inspired by the rich and famous and world of celebrities Collins is privy too, she bases her stories and characters on real life occurrences (well, hopefully not the murder parts), and takes you on a world of adventure with every page.
Jackie Collins Latest Book The Santangelos Now on Stands
Essie Fall 2014 Dress to Kilt Collection {ManiMonday}
“Live dangerously. Dress flawlessly Inspired by a woman’s undeniable feminine mystique, essie’s fall 2014 delivers shades so chic it is almost criminal.” How’s that for a self manicured description by essie for their new dress to kilt collection? Intriguing, right? But does it live up to the description?
Here’s what’s in the range (left to right from the photo above):
Choupette’s Diary: A Chic Guide To Being Moi
By now you’ve heard the news, I have a book releasing in September entitled “Choupette: The Private Life of a High-Flying Fashion Cat.” The long-awaited publication will include tips on diet, beauty, healthcare, and fashion, as well as insight into my secret loves and hates (more hates than loves).
At Home Beauty: Get The Recipe for Radiance
If you’re looking to DIY your way through beauty, Alexis Wolfer’s new book, The Recipe for Radiance is a perfect score. It’s 250 pages filled with the best kept beauty secrets for your face, body and hair, with recipes both for cooking to eat your way to better skin and concoctions to be applied topically. Everything from fine lines and wrinkles, acne to age spots are addressed in this book.
Jackie Collins New Book: CONFESSIONS OF A WILD CHILD Gets a Movie Deal!
Well Jackie Collins fans, we have a lot to be excited about! For starters, she has a new book out, CONFESSIONS OF A WILD CHILD, which launched earlier this month, and it’s about our favorite character, Lucky Santengelo! And get this… the book has a movie deal! I’ve known Jackie for years and in every interview I always ask when her books are hitting the big screen — well dozens of novels later, we have our answer!
Weekend Read: I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This by Kate White
Happy Friday everyone! With back to back gorgeous weekends in NYC I’m hoping for another great weather moment and to do some reading outside. When I get busy (and this month I’ve been very, very busy), my books collect dust. It’s suddenly so challenging to take that personal time to read one! This weekend, the boyfriend is out of town and I’m carving out some time to read Kate White’s new book, I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This.
TRANSFORMBER By Lou Reed and Mick Rock Book Launch at John Varvatos
Now this is one for the books! On Thursday, I stopped by the John Varvatos store for the launch of rock legends, Lou Reed and Mick Rock’s new photography book, TRANSFORMER. Moderated by John Varvatos himself, he took to the stage with Lou Reed and Mick Rock asking questions about rock, the 70s and their journey together through this age of music and the images captured in the book.
Chic for Fashion Week: My 10 Must-Haves for #NYFW
Fashion week is once again upon us and as I’ll be running around town all week from Lincoln Center to Milk Studios to catch the shows, be sure to follow me @prettyconnected on instagram and twitter for all the latest happenings backstage and front! And as part of preparing for the big week ahead, here’s my go to list of products to keep me calm, collected and undoubtedly chic for fashion week.
1. myCharge Summit 3000 ($79.99) – this may be your most important purchase for all of fashion week. In fact I don’t think I would have made it through last season without it. With up to
Summer Reading List: PX Me. (How I became a Published Author, Got Micro-Famous and Married a Millionaire)
I always thought bathroom attendants, limo drivers, and doormen (or women) we’re the top people to interview if you’re looking for legit gossip on the city’s VIP until my introduction to Abbe Diaz. Now Maitre’d’s fall high on that list. As the former hostess of several trendy restaurants, Diaz collected a silver platter of dirt on the personnes extraordinare who often dined at these NYC hot spots and the questionable practices.
In her premiere book, PX This—Diary of the “Maître d’ to the Stars no celeb or restaurateur was safe from Diaz’s observations of their behaviors—the good, the bad and often the very ugly. It’s a lighthearted, and humorous account of her uniquely insightful romp through the nightly playgrounds of some of New York’s (and Hollywood’s) most glamorous and elite.
Now Diaz is back with the wildly entertaining sequel: PX Me. (How I Became a Published Author, Got Micro-Famous, and Married a Millionaire.) Just as in PX This, has taken her daily diary entries and published a ten volume eSeries to be released throughout the summer. Currently volumes 1-4 are available with the 5th edition launching later this week.
Going on a Power Trip with Jackie Collins
As far as I’m concerned there are two types of women, Jackie Collins fans and those who don’t know they are Jackie Collins fans yet (the rest of you are just pretending). I used to be the latter until meeting the author a few years back and by the end of our interview I was completely enamored.
Her kindness, coupled with her no nonsense, tell-it-like it is attitude is so refreshing as is her genuine love of women and commitment to building strong female characters in her books. Collins is a dreamer, a natural story teller, with a huge imagination and she inspires me every time I’m around her. So consider my reaction when I was asked to host the launch of her latest book, The Power Trip. Let me be clear, my Vespa’s name Lucky (after my favorite JC character), her autographed picture which she signed “Stay Lucky” hangs in my office and at least once a week I have a ‘what would Jackie Collins do?’ moment — you get it, this offer made my life.
{Co-hosts, myself and Jamey Giddens of Daytime and Pop Confidential with Jackie Collins}
So alongside the talented Jamey Giddens of Daytime and Pop Confidential, we co-hosted the press event at NYC’s Yotel all Family Feud style. Literally. We divided 40 or so press and bloggers into two teams for some Pop Culture Trivia. The winning team got to face off against Collins herself for the ultimate showdown. First off, if I knew being a game-show host was this much fun, I would have switched careers. Bloggers in competitive mode is one of the most