Fashion Babylon - Softcover

Edwards-Jones, Imogen; Anonymous

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416543198 ISBN 13: 9781416543190

Publisher: Atria Books, 2008

Synopsis

CAUTION: Reading this book will forever change the way you peruse the racks at Bergdorf's or flip through the pages of Vogue.

Taking the reader through six months in a designer's life, Fashion Babylon follows an anonymous A-list British fashion designer looking to break out across the pond. Structured around three of the annual "must" industry events, this irresistible work of reportage goes inside the well-cut seams of the fashion world, where women are paid tens of thousands of dollars for simply getting dressed and where a wrong skirt length can cost you your career. You'll find out how a collection is put together -- from the objects of inspiration to the catwalk, into the shops and, hopefully, onto the cover of a magazine -- and learn who goes to the shows and where they sit...and whose backside they have to kiss to get there.

Witty, naughty and jam-packed with celebrity gossip, Fashion Babylon decodes the markups and the comedowns, the fabulous extremes and the shoddy shortcuts behind one of the most lucrative and secretive businesses in the world.

About this title

Review:

"A shocking, hilarious and uncensored look at what really goes on behind the scenes in the fashion industry. I could not put it down." -- Candace Bushnell

"A controversial, deeply researched look at fashion's international 'process.' [Edwards-Jones's] coauthors, billed as 'Anonymous, ' are an unnamed selection of stringers whom she has evidently taken out for dinner, plied with alcohol and guaranteed anonymity; a promise that she honours. Happily, they appear to have gone to town." -- Evening Standard (UK)

"Fashion Babylon -- juiced with tabloid-ready true stories of oft-repeated rumors -- has supplanted The Devil Wears Prada as the fashionista's trashy read of choice." -- New York Post

"The revelations...leave you rubbing your hands with glee. The incidents are real, the celebrities play themselves...and everything you ever suspected is true." -- The Telegraph (UK)

Book Description:

From high fashion to high street - a peek up the skirts of the world's most glamourous industry - the inspiration behind a major TV series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1416543198
• ISBN 13: 9781416543190
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336