Book 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 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.
Imogen Edwards-Jones is the co-author of the bestselling Hotel
Babylon and Air Babylon as well as author of The Stork
Club and The Taming of Eagles. Her fiction includes My Canap
é 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.
