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The Kennedy Family at Christmas

I watched part of the HGTV special about Christmas at the White House yesterday and couldn't resist posting of these photos of the Kennedy family at Christmas. Some are from the White House years like the tree in the Blue Room in 1961 above and some are from Jackie's life in the 1970's. Enjoy!

Caroline Kennedy enjoying the Blue Room Christmas tree in 1961

White House Christmas 1962

Kennedy Christmas card of the Blue Room Christmas tree

Kennedy Christmas - December 25, 1962

Caroline and Jackie at Christmas - December 25, 1962

Caroline and Jackie at Christmas 1970

Jackie Onassis Christmas message.

Working Girl

"If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

There are not one but two fabulous new books that chronicle the more than two decades that Jackie Kennedy Onassis spent as a book editor. Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Greg Lawrence which you can read an excerpt from in the January 2011 issue of Vanity Fair and Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn. For most of her life, Jackie was defined by the men in her life but it wasn't until she started to work that she really came into her own. Jackie was said to have nurtured her authors, many of whom left Doubleday after her death because they couldn't bear working there without her. I was surprised to learn that she worked with Diana Vreeland on her book Allure which was recently rereleased. Vreeland's grandson, Nicholas Vreeland, remembers Jackie coming over to Diana's apartment to work on it. I can't wait to read both books and see what else she helped to publish!

Diana Vreeland and Jackie Kennedy Onassis

Reporting in Style

Whenever I visit Barneys, I love to check out the books on the 9th floor. I came across one book recently that is especially chic. In English it's called Reporting in Style and in French, Collection Privée. Regardless of the name, the photographs by Benno Graziani will speak for themselves. Benno Graziani was one of the founders of Paris Match along with Daniel Filipacchi and Willy Rizzo. He told British Vogue, "Match was our little club. There were no editors meetings because we hardly spent time apart from each other - and it worked! Some editions sold more than two million copies...very quickly we were the best. The worlds press envied us and tried in vain to imitate us." He also became friends with many of his subjects including Jackie Kennedy Onassis who invited him on vacation with her. "She (Jackie) began as a reporter-photographer and led a truly exceptional life, a fairy tale transformed into Greek tragedy. Today she is part of history," Graziani added. "There are people who make history, those who endure it, and those who tell about it. That's me."