Fashion Babylon
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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... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:141654318X
ISBN13:9781416543183
Release Date:February 2007
Publisher:Atria Books
Length:330 Pages
Weight:1.14 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.1" x 9.4"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
Fabulously entertaining
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I've read several books in the "Babylon" series, and found this book to be a very entertaining and interesting read. As an aspiring fashion designer about to begin a college degree in Fashion, and assuming the information in the book is true, I found this read to be very informative. It offers insights on how the industry operates, how everyone in it interacts/does business/socializes, how a small fashion house runs, and how a collection is conceptualized, designed, created and put on the runway. It really paints an excellent picture of what a designer must do to create a successful collection and maintain a successful label while offering funny celebrity and fashion gossip. True or not, it's still an entertaining read, especially to those who love fashion.
Fashion Babylon
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This story is a peak behind the scenes of the fashion industry. It mixes real events and people with fictionalized characters to make the story flow as smoothly as a Prada silk dress. Fashionistas will recognize every step on the story year.
Behind-the-scenes insights of an industry
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
FASHION BABYLON: LOOKING UP THE SKIRTS OF THE WORLD'S MOST GLAMOROUS INDUSTRY questions the foundations of what is fashion and what is fashionable, from what makes a fashion trend - and changes it - to how supermodels evolve, how designers rise to fame, and who makes money. To achieve these insights, six months of a designer's life explore how a fashion concept is put together and tested, from idea into the shops and magazine covers. It's the behind-the-scenes insights of an industry and art libraries - as well as general-interest collections where fashion is of interest - must have this. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch
must see if want to be in the industry
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
this is a quite interesting book that have lost of gossip, and some time inoformation in side~ let u to know more about the market.
An Insiders Look at What We'll Never See
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Written in novel form this is a insider look at the high fashion industry. And an industry it is. There's something very subtle that makes one simple little black dress cost $5,000 and one almost identical at WalMart that might be $50. And there's something that makes one girl get paid a small fortune for wearing that $5,000 dress down a runway while dozens of very similar looking girls are walking around outside in the WalMart dress merely walking to work. And strangely enough, that WalMart dress just may have been a $5,000 dress a very short time ago, walking down a runway in front of cameras that were waiting to send pictures to China, Korea or elsewhere. The story here is partly credited to Anonymous, supposedly a top of the line designer in England, but one who has never quite made it across the Atlantic. It's a fascinating look at an indistry, a lifestyle that most of us will never touch.
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