Culture Most Wanted.
Fashion Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous ( powerful industry insiders who dished the dirt ) gives a no-holds-barred account of what goes on in the world of frocks and frippery.
Told through the eyes of an over-worked designer whose heart races at the cut of a jacket ( or maybe that’s all the cocaine she’s hoovering up her nose) we’re privy to the bitching, the gossip, the stylist’s tricks, and the rough trade.
At times, the book is a series of strung-together anecdotes, but it doesn’t matter because they’re all true. And although Edward-Jones does name names when she can ( Kate , Posh, Naomi ) the beauty is trying to work out exactly who is the flatulent model or the stingy designer who doesn’t give their staff a Christmas knees-up.
It also lays bare the millions of pounds that’s at stake, the mark-ups, the snobbery and the madness.
And next time you’re shopping: if you’re going for designer make it Prada, and for High Street stick to good ‘ole Marks and Sparks. Read this great book to find out why.
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Loma-Ann Marks
Loma was a performer and freelance writer before becoming a journalist on the Daily Star Sunday, Daily Star and Express. She's the Founder and Editor of Culture Compass. North, South, East or West? I'll go anywhere. I like to think that I'm a pretty good map reader ( not everyone would agree ) but then I remind them that I navigated my way around the Paris one-way system with NO mistakes. High Class or Common or Garden? High class in the garden. Clothes or Culture? Culture in new clothes. My best night out ever made me feel....... That things would never be the same again. And they surely weren't the following day.
Loma was a performer and freelance writer before becoming a journalist on the Daily Star Sunday, Daily Star and Express. She's the Founder and Editor of Culture Compass. North, South, East or West? I'll go anywhere. I like to think that I'm a pretty good map reader ( not everyone would agree ) but then I remind them that I navigated my way around the Paris one-way system with NO mistakes. High Class or Common or Garden? High class in the garden. Clothes or Culture? Culture in new clothes. My best night out ever made me feel....... That things would never be the same again. And they surely weren't the following day.
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