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What a Difference a Decade Makes
In May
of 1999, I joined Rizzoli as Assistant to the Director of Sales and
Marketing, a glorified secretary assigned to prime assignments as
organizing the basement stockroom and filing dozens of cartons of
documents piled along the windowsills and along the floors of that
third floor office. Still, the position had its perks, like meeting the
pert and perky Marta Hallett, then publisher of Rizzoli, who seemed
unusually accessible for someone in her position.
In 2002, Hallett called me to see if my new employer, powerHouse Books, would be interested in distributing her newest incarnation, Glitterati Incorporated. After years at the helm of houses including HarperCollins, Smithmark Publishers, with an imprint at Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, Marta had decided to leave the confines of the corporate lifestyle for the uncharted waters of independent publishing.
Smartly, she partnered with organizations and corporations including Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and the International Center of Photography on high-end illustrated titles dedicated to elevating the discourse in art, culture, fashion, design, travel, food, and lifestyle, Glitterati titles spotlight work from Coco Chanel, Natori, Villa d'Este, Ralph Pucci, and the kitchen of Mrs. Charles Darwin. With over 30 years experience, Hallett has built Glitterati's reputation as publisher of modern beauty and iconography with fashion and beauty, architecture and design, photography and film, food and lifestyle, travel, and children's books.
I reconnected with Hallett earlier this Spring to work on the global campaign for Fall 2009 release of Untouched, a collection of classic 80s celebrity portraiture by Johnny Rozsa featuring everyone from Dolly Parton to Tina Turner, Muhammad Ali to Sade, Rick James to Joan Collins, John Malkovich to Natasha Richardson, with a special section dedicated the gay legends including Leigh Bowery, Quentin Crisp, and Divine.
Working from her sprawling Central Park West home, Hallett's close knit collective combines the opulent with the organic, offering a sophisticated mix of stylish titles that enjoy a life outside the crumbling book industry. http://glitteratiincorporated.com/home.html
In 2002, Hallett called me to see if my new employer, powerHouse Books, would be interested in distributing her newest incarnation, Glitterati Incorporated. After years at the helm of houses including HarperCollins, Smithmark Publishers, with an imprint at Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, Marta had decided to leave the confines of the corporate lifestyle for the uncharted waters of independent publishing.
Smartly, she partnered with organizations and corporations including Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and the International Center of Photography on high-end illustrated titles dedicated to elevating the discourse in art, culture, fashion, design, travel, food, and lifestyle, Glitterati titles spotlight work from Coco Chanel, Natori, Villa d'Este, Ralph Pucci, and the kitchen of Mrs. Charles Darwin. With over 30 years experience, Hallett has built Glitterati's reputation as publisher of modern beauty and iconography with fashion and beauty, architecture and design, photography and film, food and lifestyle, travel, and children's books.
I reconnected with Hallett earlier this Spring to work on the global campaign for Fall 2009 release of Untouched, a collection of classic 80s celebrity portraiture by Johnny Rozsa featuring everyone from Dolly Parton to Tina Turner, Muhammad Ali to Sade, Rick James to Joan Collins, John Malkovich to Natasha Richardson, with a special section dedicated the gay legends including Leigh Bowery, Quentin Crisp, and Divine.
Working from her sprawling Central Park West home, Hallett's close knit collective combines the opulent with the organic, offering a sophisticated mix of stylish titles that enjoy a life outside the crumbling book industry. http://glitteratiincorporated.
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