Eight years later, also in New York, and together with Gary Gatys he created the fashion label “Gary Gatys Ltd”. In 1978, in New York, he founded the company “Xtazy Ltd.”, the first Model Ensemble in the World. He danced with Liza Minelli, Cindy Crawford and Brooke Shields in the Clubs of Paris, London and New York. He was the first black model ever to appear on the cover of the American fashion Magazine “GQ”. He walked for designers like Calvin Klein, Valentino, Armani, Kenzo, Yves Saint Laurent. After finisihing buisness studies in Switzerland he stormed the fashion runways of this world. It has received many international awards and accolades, such as the Strega Prize in 1981 and Prix Medicis Étranger in 1982, and was ranked 14th on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century list.Born and raised in Switzerland with his Swizz Mother, his Nigerian medical student Father he never met. It has went on to sell over 50 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling books ever published. “An extraordinary work of novelistic art” (Harper’s). The novel presents clues for the reader to decode, but as the reader grapples with the novel’s deeper meanings, the mystery becomes secondary” (Columbia University Press). Critically praised as a “brilliantly conceived adventure into another time” (SF Chronicle), the novel “encapsulates Eco’s semiotic theory, which describes how signs are produced and interpreted in the world.
This “erudite murder mystery,” first published in 1980 as Il Nome della Rosa, was semiotics professor Umberto Eco’s first novel and proved an international bestseller. Jacket illustration from a manuscript of the Apocalypse. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, “Umberto Eco 16 June 83.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1980.įirst edition of one of the best-selling books of all-time, basis for the film starring Sean Connery.
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