Bruce Boyer’s new book Gary Cooper: Enduring Style looks at one of the most timeless Hollywood leading men of the last century. Boyer, working alongside Cooper’s daughter Maria Cooper Janis, has put together a tribute to the insanely dapper actor, featuring photographs taken primarily by his wife Rocky (Ralph Lauren contributes the foreword). From kicking it with Cary Grant, hunting with Hemingway, or simply hoisting himself from a pool, Cooper was consistently ’killing it.’ An excerpt:
"[Cooper] had devised and perfected his own debonair style that combined a perfectly tailored European wardrobe with all-American casual sportswear to produce the first, and still finest example of elegant, international, masculine style rooted in an American ideal of the everyman as hero. From the most casual sports clothing to the most formal white tie and tails, Cooper carried himself with uncontrived conviction."
_The book is available now at Amazon.com. _