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SYLVIE VARTAN BOOKS - SELECTION
SYLVIE VARTAN MA VIE DE SCENE EN SCENE
DE L'OLYMPIA PARIS 1961 AU PALAIS DES CONGRES PARIS 2025
・ MA VIE DE SCENE EN SCENE (2024) ・ DANS LA LUMIERE - PICTORIAL BIO (2007)
・ DISCOGRAPHY - 64 ALBUMS (2017) ・ PHOTOGRAPHIES 1970S (2022) ・ LES CHEMINS DE SA VIE - BIO (2024)
・ LE TOURBILLON D'UNE VIE - 1st OFFICIAL BIO (2021) ・ JOUR APRES JOUR - PICTORIAL BIO (2008)
・ SYLVIE VARTAN - PICTORIAL BIO (1996) ・ LE STYLE VARTAN - LA MODE (2015)
・ SYLVIE VARTAN, REVUE DE MODE (2004) ・ AGENDA 2005 (ASSOCIATION S.V.B)
・ NOS TENDRES ANNEES ... AVEC SYLVIE VARTAN - HOMAGE (2004)
Autobiography of Sylvie Vartan
Title : Entre L'ombre et la lumiere amazon france
Author : Sylvie Vartan
Publication: 1 April 2004
Editeur : XO Editions
size : 15.3 x 3.5 x 24 cm
Number of pages : 416
ISBN : 9782845631953
A thick 400 page book including 32 pages of photos, long volume since it's about an exceptional family the Vartans including her extraordinary professional pursuit. What's important is that Sylvie wrote down her family history defining who each of them was and paid tribute to them, a few years after the death of her brother and musician Eddie Vartan who was a key person in her career. Her father Georges Robert Vartan (Francophone, 1912-1970) and Eddie (1937-2001) both an artistic soul and her mother Ilona (Hungarian, 1914-2007) graceful, tolerant. They were all self-starters and quickly assimilated into France. In spite of being in high spirits on the day I had it in 2004, I felt a bit overwhelmed by the amount in French and skimed through it. In fact, I didn't really understand how serious such things as emigrating (even with visa) from a country under communism Bulgaria in 1952 (after the World War II) to France and living in exile until much later on or only the early summer of 2025 (the year of her ultimate grand concerts in Paris "JE TIRE MA REVERENCE"). At the moment when my PC suddently ran into a problem, I decided to read it all slowly carefully but was so drawn into the first 114 pages/Chaper 1-5 (her birth through to adolescence, age 14 or 15) that I took a break.
Readers will be transported to the time (around mid-1940s to 1950s) in Sofia and Paris and even shed tears when her dearest grandparents and her family parted ways at the train station. On the other hand, her mother often makes us smile in Paris. She bought Sylvie a nice duffle coat and then humorously announced at home "We'll be now eating pasta a whole week!" and laughed optimistically.
The family was blessed with old friends (two families moved from Sofia to Paris legally too) as well as good neighbors during their hardest time in Paris.
Sylvie, an intelligent literary girl and an aspiring actress/writer feels and thinks a lot. An adolescent obedient to her parents, not by their force but the true feeling. She was ultimately grown up in a loving environment. The Vartans having a strong familly bond owned their appartment and formost, bought a piano in less than 4 years since they started over in Paris in December 1952 (Sylvie at age 8). Georges Robert Vartan would enjoy playing the piano in Sofia. Triumph against adversity.
It seems that her personality and thoughts and all are condensed in her first 15 years of existence and the one quarter alone of this heavy bestseller autobiography (Chapter 1-5) tells such an intense life, including European situation around/after the end of the 2nd World War. It hit me so hard in the heart. I recall what Sylvie said in many interviews.
Those days are not at all in the so distant past and today in the 2020s, there are still international relentless invasion and conflicts. I will reread the first four impressive chapters so that I learn it by heart almost (!) and quickly finish at long last this precious "souvenirs" (memories) that Sylvie dedicated to her courageous and warm family.
And above all, a world star Sylvie Vartan herself has a tumultuous life with uncommon things like karma, most notably two near-fatal car accidents in her early 20s (in 1968/1970), in which she was involved in and survived.
A must-read publication.
A la memoire de mon pere et d'Eddie.
A ma mere.
Pour David, Darina, Ilona et Emma.
Et pour l'homme que j'aime, Tony.
(publication 21/04/2016 in France, 11/2016 Bulgaria)
Book cover： Ilona Vartan and Sylvie Vartan during their trip to Egypt, where Sylvie visited with her mother and son, David. (around mid-1970s)
Memoirs of her mother Ilona Vartan (born in Hungary, 1914-2007), who was and is role model to Sylvie Vartan as well as what kept the Vartan's spirits up. Ilona Vartan always stood by her daughter Sylvie, who traveled and travels a lot around the world professionally and personally. She lived in Bulgaria, France and America, being always with Sylvie, besides her homeland Hungary as a child, a daughter of a prominent architect, who accepted the Bulgarian goverment's request to come and work for the national recovery after the First World War.
Sylvie said, appearing on the news program Journal 13h of France national television F2, it's the life of an exceptional woman who came through all moments of a century, the turbulent 20th century as well as love for her mother that dictated and had control over its direction to write this book "Maman..."
DAVID, SON OF SYLVIE & JOHNNY
Title : Meilleur album – Autobiographie
Publication: 23/11/2023
Editeur : Le Cherche-Midi
Number of pages : 288
The 1st autobiography of David Hallyday (57) – a successful singer songwriter born 14 August 1966 in France - the only child of the French cultural power couple Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday, who eventually divorced in November 1980 by Sylvie’s choice. David was 14. Sylvie remarried in June 1984 in Los Angeles. David made a debut around that year. David - looked a cute and naughty boy in his early childhood - grew up strong and considerate. Actually, he lived with his mother Sylvie, for his father was so often absent from home. He resembles Sylvie and it seems his personality is close to hers as well.
Although those days (the 1960s to mid-1980s) were the pinnacle of Sylvie’s success including long world concert tours, he was then with his grandmother - Sylvie’s mother Ilona Vartan, who was spiritual support of the Vartans and especially cherished her two children (Eddie and Sylvie). Sylvie always cared about her son and Ilona Vartan no matter where she was, that is outside of Paris or in overseas such as US, Japan etc. (Some Japanese magazines mentioned her love and honour for her mother in their articles back then). He was brought up with extra love and attention by these two women both in France and the United States, where he had fortunately his important father-in-law (Tony Scotti) in/since his adolescence.
Today, David has two daughters and one son.
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DE L'OLYMPIA PARIS 1961 AU PALAIS DES CONGRES 2025
Title : SYLVIE VARTAN MA VIE DE SCENE EN SCENE De L'Olympia Paris 1961 - Au Palais des Congres de Paris 2025
* au Dome de Paris - 8, 9, 10 November 2024
au Palais des Congres de Paris - 24, 25, 26 January 2025: -
Outline of the concerts and 4 dessins of the several costumes per Stephane Rolland
Author : Benoit Cachin
Publication: 7/11/2024
Editeur : Grund
size : 220 x 30 x 290 mm
weight (approx.) : 1.8 kg
Number of pages : 288
ISBN-10 : 2324035995
ISBN-13 : 978-2324035999
amzon france
- Biography of Sylvie Vartan with photographs (stage career + discography)
Published about three months after the death of her beloved mother. On the first page, we see : DANS LA LUMIERE A ma mere
Author : Christian & Eric Cazalot
Book title ： "SYLVIE VARTAN DANS LA LUMIERE"
Publisher ： XO Editions
Publication date ： 4 October 2007
size ： 193 x 30 x 250 mm
Number of page ： 319
ISBN : 9782845633377
DANS LA LUMIERE - A MA MERE
"SYLVIE VARTAN La Plus Belle Pour Aller Chanter" (2017) - A LARGE HEAVY BOOK
- Complete discography of Sylvie Vartan, covering 64 albums
photo left from Sylvie Vartan Official Instagram.
Author : Benoit Cachin
Book title ： "SYLVIE VARTAN La plus belle pour aller chanter"
Publisher ： Grund
Publication date ： 7 September 2017
size ： 215 x 280 mm
Number of page ： 288
シルヴィ・ヴァルタン・ディスコグラフィ
（アルバム64作品を集大成/シルヴィ・ヴァルタンへの各年代のロングインタヴュー収録/2017年9月出版）
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SYLVIE VARTAN - PHOTOGRAPHIES DE GERARD HOUIN (2022)
SYLVIE VARTAN IN THE 1970S
Sylvie Vartan per a French photograher Gerard Houin in his prime 1970s.He finds the best angle and captures most beautiful moments whether or not Sylvie moves. We feel a wind (breeze) and those are a bit different from others, I think. Always fresh and new and stimulating. A fantastic photographer. Is he a passionate fan of Sylvie ?
Format A4
28 pages (quality photos)
below : VARIATION - 14 DECEMBER 2021 - Plein feux sur Gerard Houin, le photographe des seventies
CELEBRATION ON 60THE STAGE CAREER OF SYLVIE VARTAN !
SYLVIE VARTAN LES CHEMINS DE SA VIE - BIOGRAPHY (2024)
HOMAGE TO SYLVIE VARTAN
Title : Sylvie Vartan Les chemins de sa vie Author : Frederic Quinonero
Publication: 29/2/2024
Editeur : Mareuil Editions
size : 14.3 x 2.8 x 21.7 cm
Number of pages : 271
amazon france
It's a little thing but I wonder what's the particular reason for choosing this photo (1982 ?) for the book - Hommage to Sylvie Vartan, who announced her ultimate concerts in Paris. Many fans know that this famous black dress with white (organdy/silk?) collar YSL is Sylvie's favorite, though.
His previous title : Sylvie Vartan Jour apres Jour (2008).
- PREFACE BY SYLVIE VARTAN
Title : Sylvie Vartan - Le tourbillon d'une vieAuthor : Christian Cazalot, Eric Cazalot
Editor : XO editions
Publication : 20 May 2021 (France)
Language : French
Number of page : 414
size : 152 x 35 x 240 mm
amzon france
Most punctual publication of the first official biography of Sylvie Vartan, who celebrates her 60th anniversary of active creative stage career in 2021. Writing after Sylvie Vartan's two autobiographies (2004 bestseller/2016). It must be worth having and reading this thick French volume.
Still, I wish the book cover were a picture of Sylvie Vartan today, rather than an easy and imcomplete reproduction of the original superb photograph (* 1994) so as to be a perfect commemorative issue.
( * French magazine ELLE - on the cover of no. 7 November 1994 - gracefully featured this Sylvie Vartan in Christian Dior with mostly black and white colors.)
"SYLVIE VARTAN JOUR APRES JOUR" (2008)
- Biography of Sylvie Vartan with photographs
Author : Frederic Quinonero
Book title ： "SYLVIE VARTAN JOUR APRES JOUR"
Publisher ： Editions Didier CARPENTIER
Publication date ： 23 January 2008
size ： 260 x 260 x 13 mm
Number of page ： 156
(photo front: Sylvie in 1995 / back: Sylvie aux Palais des Congres de Paris 1977 in a costume Bob Mackie) .
Uncommonly rich detailed chronicle of Sylvie Vartan (from her birth in 1944 to 2007 clothing with her schedule of concert tour 2008) with touching pictures. Formidable profound book with a beautiful cover in blue grey and white. And with the two contrasting photographs of Sylvie Vartan (on front/back), a world acclamed live performer. It begins with the photo (below) of a superb nice-looking girl with a bob haircut, gorgeous Sylvie in the bright sun, age around 17.
photo right: Sylvie Vartan performing aux Palais des Sports Paris in Jan. 1991, an iconic scene of Vartan in live.
Sylvie Vartan (Paris 1962, age 18)
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"SYLVIE VARTAN" - PICTORIAL BIOGRAPHY (publication 01/10/1996)
Gorgeous biography (her birth 1944 - L'Olympia Paris 1996) with plenty of fabulous photos including most precious monochrome pictures of her childhood in Bulgaria and Paris as well as the family passport (from Sofia to Paris in 1952).
Author: Camilio Daccache, Isabelle Salmon
Cover photograph: Pierre et Gilles
Publisher: Les Editions Vade retro
Publication date: 1 October 1996
Number of page: 152 pages
Weight: 1.4 kgs
Size: 29.4 x 2 x 29.3 cm
"LE STYLE VARTAN" (publication 05/11/2015)
Author：Eric/Christian CAZALOT with Sylvie Vartan, Publisher：edition de La Martiniere
"ル・スティル（スタイル）・ヴァルタン" - シルヴィ・ヴァルタンのモード写真集 - 1960年代から2010年代）（2015年11月出版）
シルヴィ・ヴァルタンのアーティスト人生を形どる精力的なコンサート活動、歌い踊るシルヴィの嗜好とテーマに沿った世界的なクチュリエ（イヴ・サンローラン、ボブ・マッキー、ミシェル・フレスネ―、ジャンフランコ・フェレ、ジャンポール・ゴルチエ、カール・ラガーフェルド他）のオートクチュール衣装やファッション誌の表紙などを包括したキャリアの全体像が目の前に展開するような写真集。シルヴが所有する貴重な写真とインタヴューも収録。本棚で存在感のある香るような書籍。
シルヴィは、あるインタヴューで、このような事をいっている： 「自分のスタイルを創り上げるとか流行を追うといったことに構ったことはない」。個性あふれるシルヴィは、デビュー時（17歳）から脚光を浴び、仏誌VOGUEにもお気に入りのターコイズブルーの大きなプラスチック・ボンボンのネックレスを付けて登場。デビュー直前の16歳の時にウィンドー・ショッピングで一目ぼれしたアクセサリー。シャンゼリゼ大通りのレコード店での夏のアルバイト料で買ったという印象的な小物。生来のフェミニンな物腰が際立つ一方で、お転婆で活動的なシルヴィ。19歳の初渡米で早くもアディダスのトリコロール・スニーカー（スエード）を購入。シルヴィは1960代から今も白いスニーカーやスポーツウェア―を公私ともに常用。
1970年から一層コンサート活動に情熱を注ぎ、世界中の大衆やメディアの熱狂の渦の中を疾走してきたスター。衣装を含む舞台構想とその実現や長期巡演など、アーティストの本領や本質に専心してきたと見える。同時に、家庭はシルヴィ・ヴァルタンの人生の根幹をなしていることを思えば、その人間的バランスも非凡。
同書には希少な1970年代の日本巡演中の希少な一枚の写真が掲載されている。地方の駅ホームで列車を待つ寛いだシルヴィ・ヴァルタン一行。シルヴィはジーン・ジャケットに小さな花柄のタイトなバーミューダ・パンツ、そして足元はクリーム色のタイトで柔らかいレザー・ブーツ。当時お気に入りの靴。好きなものは頻繁に又、長く大切にし愛用する。
「ル・スティル・ヴァルタン」とは、他にないシルヴィ・ヴァルタン流のアーティスト人生。
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"SYLVIE VARTAN, REVUE DE MODE" (publication 10/2004)
CATALOGUE DE L'EXPOSITION AU PALAIS GALLIERA, PARIS
PARIS musees - Les Musees de la ville de Paris
Exposition ： SYLVIE VARTAN, REVUE DE MODE
Period ： 16 October 2004 - 27 February 2005
size ： 170 x 235 x 18 mm
Number of page ： 223
"シルヴィ・ヴァルタンとモード" 展覧会カタログ - パリ・ガリエラ美術館 （2004年10月出版）
開催期間：2004年10月16日～2005年2月27日
本展覧会はステージ・パフォーマーとして定評のあるシルヴィ・ヴァルタンの40年余りのキャリア遍歴をモードから一望する。シルヴィ・ヴァルタン関連の書籍の中で、内容を伴った、最高のデザインだと思う。真っ先にフランス独特の深紅色に魅せられる。写真（左）は現物を克明に写し出さないので特別上質な本には見えない。ところが、鮮やかな深紅色のマットな表紙に、黒にラメのような光沢のある深紅色のダイナミックな縁取り仕上げのシルヴィの写真はプリント作品風。一見してシンプルだが美術品の趣がある香り高い重量感のある書籍。
モチーフになったシルヴィの写真は、1965年8月初旬のELLE誌の表紙で、21歳直前の素顔に近いシルヴィ。水色の夏の帽子姿やその表情や独特の仕草などに、シルヴィ・ヴァルタンの個性が最も良く現れた写真の一つ。
Artistically superb and handy catalogue in extremely impressive European crimson red with a matte cover and most iconic look of Sylvie Vartan wearing a summer hat (1965, just before age 21). A grand exposition in the context of mode of the history of Sylvie Vartan, a vibrant concert live performer. Debut in 1961 at age 17 with immediate success and before long she started collaborating with world-class couturiers including Yves Saint Laurent. It must have been worth a DVD. I wished I were in France or in Europe. Fortunately, we could see it in short videos of French media on this event, which is not a project any singers or actors could make. Sylvie Vartan with versatile ability and quality is never easy to describe exactly, however, the exposition shows an important aspcet of Sylvie Vartan.
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AGENDA 2005 - "LES ROBES DE SYLVIE VARTAN"
EDITED/SOLD ON THE OCCASION OF L'EXPOSITION "SYLVIE VARTAN, REVUE DE MODE" (Paris 2004/2005)
Agenda 2005 per L'Association Sylvie Vartan pour la BulgarieIssue : October 2004
size ：130 x 185 x 10 mm
Sylvie Vartan : 1970 to 2005
Costumes : Yves Saint Laurent, Michel Fresnay, Bob Mackie, Chanel/Karl Lagerfeld
photographs :
Francois Nars, Gerard Houin, Stephane Ruet, Jean-Marc Sagnes, Luc Monnet, Jean-Henri Marin, les Musee Galliera
A special agenda with a very inspiring graphic design showing not only Sylvie Vartan on musical activity but also part of her highest quality stage costume that were worth what Sylvie Vartan valued and kept for decades. Some are with adornments like crystals, embroidery, intricate fabric detailing by Yves Saint-Laurent, Dior, Bob Mackie among others. We will keep it forever.
"NOS TENDRES ANNEES... AVEC SYLVIE VARTAN" (2004)
Book title : NOS TENDRES ANNEES avec ... SYLVIE VARTAN
Our younger days with Sylvie Vartan, it's a recollection, book of testimonies by Sylvie Vartan fans of their encounters with the artist of their own motive that contains thrilling anecdotes of the past forty years (1961-2001). The fifteen fans are from several different generations. A lovely handy book one-cm-thick with an impressive photo of Sylvie Vartan 1968 (*) on the cover and Sylvie and her adolescent fans at the airport Orly on one Sunday in 1967 on the back. It's more than happy to see and talk with someone they truly love. It leaves a strong impression with joyful look of the both sides, fans and Sylvie. A rare photo of Sylvie's mother Ilona Vartan and a teenage girl, who visited their residence while Sylvie was away, on a walk together with Sylvie's dog is also included. Formidable book - a truth free from vanities - as a way to pay homage to the artist. The top page says: A Sylvie Vartan (To Sylvie Vartan). Touching in total.
( * Sylvie at L'Olympia Paris 1968 in her iconic dress with elaborate jewelry stone handwork by Yves Saint-Laurent.)
The entire proceeds from the book is to benefit ASVB L'Association Sylvie Vartan pour la Bulgarie (Sylvie Vartan Association for Underprivileged Children), the humanitarian activities of Sylvie Vartan devoted to improving the living conditions of deprived children. Sylvie established it with her brother and musician Eddie Vartan in Dec. 1990, two months after their first return to their homeland Bulgaria in thirty eight years. It was for her first and unique concert in Sofia, just one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Communist rule in Eastern Europe.ASVB FACEBOOK
"シルヴィ・ヴァルタンと過ごした若き日々" （ファン自主出版の回想録/2004年9月）
フランスのファンがシルヴィ・ヴァルタンへの敬意を込めて上梓した証言記録。シルヴィのデビュー40周年を記念して世代の違うファン15人が結集し、40年間 (1961-2001) の彼女とのこの上ない出会いや交流を綴る。ファン撮影のシルヴィの公私の写真入り。シルヴィの留守中にヴァルタン家を訪問したファンの女の子が、シルヴィのお母さん、イロ―ナ・ヴァルタンと一緒にシルヴィの愛犬を連れて散歩中の希少な写真が収録されている。
表紙は1968年パリ・オランピア劇場公演で歌う華奢なシルヴィ・ヴァルタン。衣装はイヴ・サンローラン（Yves Saint Laurent）。ジュエリー・ストーンを手作業で全体にあしらった希少度の高い緻密なデザインの白いミニドレス）。裏表紙の小さな写真が強烈な印象を残す。1967年のある日曜日、パリ・オルリー空港でシルヴィ(23歳）を待ち伏せして出迎える満面の笑顔のファン。男の子のスーツ姿にもそれが至福の瞬間だとうかがえる。ミニスカート姿のシルヴィは彼等に囲まれてまるで友人に再会したかのように嬉しそうに会話する。
虚飾とは無縁の本物の真心を感じる書籍。扱いやすいサイズ (24x15.3x1.2cm) でシンプルで上質。また文字が比較的大きく読みやすい。
本の売上金は全て「シルヴィ・ヴァルタン・プール・ブルガリィ」 に寄付される。
ASVB - L'ASSOCIATION SYLVIE VARTAN POUR LA BULGARIE (SINCE 1990 - ) ：
シルヴィ・ヴァルタンが実兄エディ・ヴァルタン（音楽家）と1990年12月にブルガリア赤十字社の下に設立した非営利団体。恵まれない子供たちの人道支援活動を主目的とし、医療機器・医薬品・食事などを提供する。（設立者のシルヴィ・ヴァルタンとトニー・スコッティによる寄付は大きい）
毎年（初冬に）パリのブルガリア大使館で定例会を開催し現地の関係者とシルヴィ自ら出席する。2023年10月20日（金曜日）、定例会後に今回は特別ディナー・パーティー（チャリティーの一環）が老舗カフェ・フーケで行われた。シルヴィの挨拶で特に印象深い一つの言葉がある。合言葉と見える ： 我々の活動は世界的に小さなものだけれども、大事なのは「参加すること」。 （シルヴィ・ヴァルタン）
