Liz Goldwyn has worked in fashion, art, and photography since the age of sixteen. She has produced major fashion shows and art installations, helped establish the fashion department at Sotheby's New York, and was a global consultant for Shiseido America. She writes feature articles for international magazines and newspapers, including French Vogue, The Financial Times, and Hantasubaki, and designs her own collection of jewelry. Her documentary film on burlesque queens, Pretty Things, premiered in July 2005 on HBO. Goldwyn lives in Los Angeles, California.
This coffee table treasure serves as . . . a fitting paean to this once-forgotten generation of women. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Liz Goldwyn illustrates an era in classic American entertainment with hundreds of archival photographs, costume sketches and newspaper clips. -- Time Pretty Things is now the most comprehensive study on the era of burlesque. -- V Magazine In Liz Goldwyn's Pretty Things, stripteasers bump and grind into the often dark reality of modern burlesque queens. -- Vanity Fair The art of burlesque is lovingly documented through long-lost photographs as well as designer sketches and interviews. -- W magazine [Pretty Things] celebrates the performers once dismissed as second-class citizens. -- Tatler