Fashion Babylon [Paperback]

CAUTION: Reading this book will forever change the way you peruse the racks at Bergdorf's or flip through the pages ofVogue.

Taking the reader through six months in a designer's life,Fashion Babylonfollows 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 Babylondecodes the markups and the comedowns, the fabulous extremes and the shoddy shortcuts behind one of the most lucrative and secretive businesses in the world.Imogen Edwards-Jonesis the coauthor of the internationally bestsellingHotel Babylonand the novelTuscany for Beginners.She lives in London with her husband and their baby daughter.

A Simon & Schuster author. Fashion Babylon-- juiced with tabloid-ready true stories of oft-repeated rumors -- has supplantedThe Devil Wears Pradaas 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) The revelations...leave you rubbing your hands with glee. The incidents are real, the celebritlS'