Review: The Many Lives of Miss K: Toto Koopman - Model, Muse, Spy
Title: The Many Lives of Miss K: Toto Koopman - Model, Muse, Spy Author: Jean-Noel Liaut, Denise Raab Jacobs (Translator) Publisher: Rizzoli Books Pub Date: 9/3/2013 Pages: 244 How Acquired: ARC through Edelweiss From the back cover: A life of glamour and tragedy, set against the watershed cultural and political movements of twentieth-century Europe. "Toto" Koopman (1908–1991) is a new addition to the set of iconoclastic women whose biographies intrigue and inspire modern-day readers. Like her contemporaries Lee Miller or Vita Sackville-West, Toto lived with an independent spirit more typical of the men of her generation, moving in the worlds of fashion, society, art, and politics with an insouciant ease that would stir both admiration and envy even today. Sphinxlike and tantalizing, Toto conducted her life as a game, driven by audacity and style. Jean-Noël Liaut chases his en...