Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women - Hardcover

Gross, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688126596 ISBN 13: 9780688126599

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1995

Synopsis

An expose of the modeling industry recounts the stories of the top models and reveals the ugly convergence of sex, wealth, drugs, obsession, and death behind the glamour, based on interviews with those in the know. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0688126596
• ISBN 13: 9780688126599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 524