Synopses & Reviews
Following up on her highly praised bestseller
Men Before 10 a.m., celebrity photographer Veronique Vial completes her wonderfully intimate and revealing portrait of the sexes with
Women Before 10 a.m., a captivating collection of your favorite fashion, cinematic, and pop culture beauties, starlets, and models our idealized selves before ten o'clock in the morning.
Caught with Vial's friendly lens in all their unadorned morning glory and in the act of waking, snuggling, canoodling, bathing, getting dressed, smoking a cigarette, eating breakfast, or feeding the kids are today's sexiest and most sought after actresses, models, musicians, and writers from the U.S. and Europe. The results are humorous, touching, elegant, sexy, and very, very feminine.
Review
"Imagine being let into the bedrooms and bathrooms of 96 of the worlds most beautiful actresses and models to photograph them while they're still sleepily themselves, without makeup, defenses or clothes. These heavenly creatures loll in expensive sheets, smoke, drink coffee, play with their dogs and children and let it all hang out." Paper
Review
"Intimate, messy, revealingphotos of fabulous females in their precaffeinated state." Elle
About the Author
Veronique Vial was born in France and moved to Los Angeles in 1989. Her first celebrity portraits appeared in A Day in the Life of Hollywood (HarperCollins, 1991). The exclusive staff photographer for the famed circus troupe Cirque du Soleil, Vial's first monograph Cirque du Soleil (Rizzoli, 1993) enjoyed enormous success; her next book on the widely popular circus will be published in 1999. Her book Men Before 10 a.m. (Beyond Words/PGW, 1996) was a hit across the country. Vial has exhibited her work at the prestigious Visa Pour l'Image in Perpignan, and is represented commercially by Creative Photographers, Inc., in N.Y.C. and for collectors by the renowned Fahey/Klein gallery in L.A.