Model: the Ugly Business of Beautiful Women - Softcover

Gross, Michael

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9780446603461: Model: the Ugly Business of Beautiful Women

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446603465 ISBN 13: 9780446603461

Publisher: Warner Books, 1996

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Fashion insider Michael Gross strips bare the world's most glamorous industry in this scathingly honest portrait of models, inc. Here, for the first time, is the complete, often sordid story of the international modeling business--the outrageous sums of money, rape of the spirit and the flesh, sex, drugs and occasional deaths. Photos.

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Review:

"Absorbing reading. Essential."--Library Journal

"A book stripping models bare has electrified fashion...Lurid stories of sex, drugs, rock and frocks."--International Herald Tribune

"Sprawling...energetic...Gross has obviously thought deeply about the machinations and meaning of the modeling business."--People

"Staggeringly well-researched...Hideously fascinating."--Cosmopolitan

"Rewarding...highly enjoyable, perhaps unprecedented. The definitive work of the Barbizon school."--New York Times Book Review

"Page-turning expos?."--Vogue

"Scandalous...the expos? of record of the modeling industry."--Entertainment Weekly

"Sensational...Reveals the steamy secrets of the superbabes...Delivers everything..."--The Daily News

"Already in our Amazon shopping basket, we highly recommend you pick-up this wildly interesting bestseller as well."--modelina.com

"Modeling is a dirty business--and we can't get enough of it...The book...names names and dishes dirt, on-the-record kiss-and-tell."--Newsweek

About the Author:

Michael Gross is the author of Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles as well as Rogues' Gallery, 740 Park, Genuine Authentic, and Model. A contributing editor to Travel + Leisure and columnist for Crain's New York Business, he has been a columnist for the New York Times, New York, and GQ, and a contributor to Vanity Fair, Esquire, Gawker, The Huffington Post, and other publications around the world.