We’re gonna do it! We are going to have a Fashion Cents Fashion Book Club. What fun to read about high fashion, budget deals and SHOES!!!! This book club will be yours. Only rule is: you must register on the site so you can easily post comments and we can communicate with you.
So I thought we’d start of light…a fiction read first. I’ve got three book ideas listed below. Vote for your book read of the month or suggest another by leaving a comment. We will make the option with the most votes November’s read. Sean (my producer who doesn’t know I’m doing this yet) will add a page to FashionCents.tv just for the book club. So look at the tabs above when you want to communicate with the club. You will be able to share your thoughts and comments about the book and send pictures, even video related to the read.
Now on to the three November options (excerpts are from Google books):
Fashion Babylon By Imogen Edwards-Jones, Anonymous
Taking the reader through six months in a designer’s life, it explains 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. It examines who goes to the shows and where they sit…and whose backside they have to kiss to get there. Narrated from the point of view of an anonymous A-list British fashion designer looking to break out across the pond and structured around three of the annual “must” industry events in London, Paris and New York, 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.
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. Witty, naughty and packed with celebrity gossip, this book will forever change the way you peruse the racks at Bergdorf’s or flip through the pages of Vogue.
Shoe Addicts AnonymousBy Beth Harbison
Four different women, one common shoe size, and a shared lust for fabulous footwear. The wife of a controlling politician, a debt-ridden eBay addict, an agoraphobic phone-sex operator, and a nanny for the family from hell (who barely knows a sole from a heel but who will do anything to get out of the house) meet Tuesday nights to trade shoes, and, in the process, form friendships that will help them each triumph over their problems–from secret pasts to blackmail, bankruptcy, and dating.
The Trouble with a Bad FitBy Camilla T. Crespi
New York Fashion Week is only days away and Simona’s new client and friend is desperate to finish the collection she hopes will bring her back to fame. Then her fitting model and muse is found murdered in the ladies room. Simona’s live-in detective boyfriend, in charge of the case, warns her to stay away, but Simona isn’t about to lose a client or let down a friend. Except her boyfriend isn’t the only one who wants her off the case. On the way home one evening, Simona is attacked. Dmitri, a Russian cabdriver, arrives on the scene just in time and Simona hires him to be her bodyguard, which doesn’t do her much good. Attacked a second time, she ends up in the hospital more determined than ever to find the murderer.
Ambitious new partner, angry tailor, overly-protective sample maker, grateful seamstress, jealous competitor–the suspects are many. Only when Simona delves into the past does she arrive at the truth, but not before risking her life again, this time on the runway of Bryant Park.Fashion Footnotes and a recipe for Schmatta pasta are included.”A fast-paced thriller with a convincing fashion background and a cast of characters big enough to fill…a Prada bag.”
So what’s your pick?
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