Tracy Peacock Tynan grew up in London in the 1950’s and 60s, privy
to her parents’ glamorous parties and famous friends—Laurence
Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Orson Welles. Cecil Beaton and Katharine
Hepburn were her godparents. These stylish showbiz people were role
models for Tracy, who became a clotheshorse at a young age. BUY THE
BOOK Tracy’s father, Kenneth Tynan, was a powerful theater critic
and writer for the Evening Standard, The Observer, and The New
Yorker. Her mother was Elaine Dundy, a successful novelist and
biographer, whose works have recently been revived by The New York
Review of Books. Both of Tracy’s parents, particularly her father,
were known as much for what they wore as what they wrote. In her
“moving, candid, and often hilarious” memoir (Wall Street
Journal), Tracy recalls her father’s dandy attire and her mother’s
Pucci dresses, as well as her parents’ rancorous marriage and
divorce, her father’s prodigious talents and celebrity lifestyle,
and her mother’s lifelong struggle with addiction. “Tracy Tynan
uses the universal medium of clothing to tell the highly specific
story of her bohemian British upbringing, and she does so with wit,
candor, and yes—style” ---Lena Dunham
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