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Fashion Babylon By Imogen Edwards-Jones

Description:
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 glamorous 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 markups, 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.

Author Biography:
Imogen Edwards-Jones is the co-author of the bestselling Hotel Babylon and Air Babylon as well as an author of The Stork Club and The Taming of Eagles. Her fiction includes My Canape Hell, Shagpile, The Wendy House and Tuscany for Beginners. Her new book, Beach Babylon, is now available from Bantam Press. Imogen lives in west London with her husband and their baby daughter. Anonymous is a collection of high-profile insiders from the fashion industry.

Key Features:
Author(s): Imogen Edwards-Jones
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Date of Publication: 01/07/2007
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 552154431
ISBN-13: 9780552154437
Subject: True Stories

Publication Data:
Place of Publication: London
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Imprint: Corgi Books

Dimensions:
Weight: 261 g
Width: 128 mm
Height: 198 mm
Spine: 23 mm

Editorial Details:
Format Details: B-format paperback

Condition:
Good
Normal wear and tear on cover, some writing in margins