Fashion Babylon - by Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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 follows an anonymous A-list British fashion designer looking to break out across the pond. Structured around three of the annual "must" industry events, 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. You'll find out 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 -- and learn who goes to the shows and where they sit...and whose backside they have to kiss to get there.

Witty, naughty and jam-packed with celebrity gossip, 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.

Review Quotes

"Fashion Babylon -- juiced with tabloid-ready true stories of oft-repeated rumors -- has supplanted The Devil Wears Prada as the fashionista's trashy read of choice." -- New York Post

"A controversial, deeply researched look at fashion's international 'process.' [Edwards-Jones's] coauthors, billed as 'Anonymous, ' are an unnamed selection of stringers whom she has evidently taken out for dinner, plied with alcohol and guaranteed anonymity; a promise that she honours. Happily, they appear to have gone to town." -- Evening Standard (UK)

"A shocking, hilarious and uncensored look at what really goes on behind the scenes in the fashion industry. I could not put it down." -- Candace Bushnell

"The revelations...leave you rubbing your hands with glee. The incidents are real, the celebrities play themselves...and everything you ever suspected is true." -- The Telegraph (UK)

About the Author

Imogen Edwards-Jones is the coauthor of the internationally bestselling Hotel Babylon and the novel Tuscany for Beginners. She lives in London with her husband and their baby daughter.

A Simon & Schuster author.