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 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. |
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