Something tells me that this holiday season you will be begging for Calgon to take you away. So while you are soaking in the top, read the December book club pick. You’ll love it! Know how I know? Because you’ll help to pick it. Just vote below on one of these three 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.
The Gospel According to CoCo Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman by Karen Karbo
A modern look at the life of a legendary fashion icon-with practical life lessons for women of all ages
Delving into the long, extraordinary life of renowned French fashion designer Coco Chanel, Karen Karbo has written a new kind of self-help book, exploring Chanel’s philosophy on a range of universal themes-from style to passion, from money and success to femininity and living life on your own terms.
Born in 1883 in a poorhouse in southern France, Chanel grew up to be the woman who not only gave us the little black dress and boxy jackets, but also bestowed upon women a chic freedom that helped usher them into the modern era. Elegant, opinionated, and passionate, she was the only fashion icon among TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century.
The Gospel According to Coco Chanel is a captivating, offbeat look at style, celebrity, and self-invention-all held together with droll Chanel-style commentary and culled from an examination of Chanel’s difficult childhood and triumphant adulthood, passionate love affairs, and eccentricities.
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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