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Fashion Babylon

Fashion Babylon

Fashion Babylon


$29.49
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

Focusing on the fashion industry, this work takes you through six months in a designer's life. Starting at the end of one catwalk show, it explains how a collection is put together, from the rail of found objects, to how it gets on to the catwalk, into the shops and onto the covers of a magazine.

Fashion Babylon Summary

What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what is in? What is out? Why is it green one year, and blue the next? Why is one little black dress worth three thousand pounds and another thirty quid? Is the catwalk that catty? Is everyone high on drugs and full of champagne? What makes a supermodel so super? And a designer too hot to touch? Who is making the money? Who owns who? Who hates who? And who's in each other's pocket? Following in the glamourous footsteps of "Hotel Babylon" and "Air Babylon", "Fashion Babylon" will get under the well-cut skin of the fashion industry. Using a world renowned source, "Fashion Babylon" will take you through six months in a designer's life. Starting at the end of one catwalk show, it will explain how a collection is put together - from the rail of found objects, to how it gets on to the catwalk, into the shops and onto the covers of a magazine. It will tell you who goes to the shows, where they sit and whose backside one needs to kiss to get there. It will introduce you to a host of places and characters, it will take you into a world where women get paid tens of thousands for getting dressed in the morning and where a wrong shirt length can cost you your career. Witty, naughty and full of gripping detail "Fashion Babylon" will explain the mark -ups, talk you through fashion's two seasons and discuss the money and commerce behind one of the most international, lucrative and secretive of businesses. With something for the simple follower of fashion as well as the hardcore fashionista, "Fashion Babylon" will change the way you sashay into Top Shop, flick through the pages of Vogue and enter the portals of Harvey Nichols forever.

About

Imogen Edwards-Jones is the co-author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Hotel Babylon, Air Babylon and the author of the novels My Canape Hell, Shagpile, The Wendy House and Tuscany for Beginners. Anonymous is a high-profile insider in the fashion world.

Additional information

GOR001242278
9780593056202
0593056205
Fashion Babylon by
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Transworld Publishers Ltd
2006-07-04
336
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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