Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women - Hardcover

Gross, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593035135 ISBN 13: 9780593035139

Publisher: Bantam Press, 1995

Synopsis

This work is an expose of the international modelling industry. The images of Christy, Naomi, Cindy and Linda are everywhere we turn. They are on magazine covers, and in advertisements, they host television shows, endorse products, write novels, marry rock stars, act in films, and open restaurants. They dominate the gossip columns and tabloid front pages. The international obsession with the supermodels is fuelled by more than an accident of great looks. Behind these few women is a vast army of photographers, designers, stylists, agents, publicists, fashion editors and advertisers. This book tells the story of the modelling business and its more evil twin - legalized flesh peddling. It's a tale of vast sums of money, rape, sex and drugs, obsession and tragic death. At its heart is the combination of beautiful young women and rich, predatory men. Fashion insider, Michael Gross has interviewed modelling's pioners, survivors, and hangers-on, and he tells the stories of Lisa Fonssagrives, Anita Colby, Candy Jones, Dorian Leigh and her sister Suzy Parker, Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, Veruschka and Lauren Hutton; and today's supermodels Christy, Naomi and Linda. Around them is woven the story of the modelling industry and of senior figures such as John Robert Powers and Eileen Ford, and John Casablancas of Elite models.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593035135
• ISBN 13: 9780593035139
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464