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I wanted to buy myself a new pair of sunglasses before my trip but ran out of time. I have a pair of Tom Ford gold aviator sunglasses that still look good but I feel like it's time for a change.  I have been debating on a pair of large Jackie O style shades or the new cat eye style.  There are so many chic sunglasses on the people in this post that I now want to buy one of everything!  Enjoy!

Aerin Lauder in China

Cary Grant

Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Olivia Palermo

Jackie Kennedy Onassis

Grace Kelly

Harper's Bazaar editor Joanna Hillman

Catherine Deneuve in Manon 70

Photo by Vanessa Jackman

Francoise Hardy

GQ editor Madeline Weeks

Jackie Kennedy Onassis

Sofia Coppola in Paris

Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor

Giovanni Battaglia

Bianca Jagger

Viviana Volpicella

Anna Dello Russo

Catherine Deneuve in Belle du Jour

Photo by Vanessa Jackman

Faye Dunaway and Peter Wolf

Photo by Vanessa Jackman

Charlotte Rampling and Jean Michel Jarre

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Steve McQueen in Persol

Kate Lanphear by The Sartorialist

Yves Saint Laurent and Betty Catroux

Anna Wintour in her famous Chanel sunglasses. That's all.

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

White House Christmas 1962

Kennedy Christmas card of the Blue Room Christmas tree

Kennedy Christmas - December 25, 1962

Kennedy Christmas - December 25, 1962

Caroline and Jackie at Christmas - December 25, 1962

Caroline and Jackie at Christmas 1970

Jackie Onassis Christmas message.

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

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." 

Jackie Kennedy and Benno Graziani

Jackie Kennedy, Amalfi 1962

Jackie Kennedy, Ravello, 1962

Jackie Kennedy, Amalfi, 1962

Jackie Kennedy, Amalfi, 1962

Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill, 1962

Jackie Kennedy, Ravello, 1962

Jackie Kennedy, Ravello, 1962

Caroline Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Christmas, 1970

Jackie and Aristotle Onassis, 1970

Gianni Agnelli with Heidi von Salvisberg, 1967

Oleg Cassini with President John F. Kennedy, 1962