Fashion Babylon

by Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141654318X
• ISBN13: 9781416543183
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Fabulously entertaining

I've read several books in the "Babylon" series, and found this book to be a very entertaining and interesting read. As an aspiring fashion designer about to begin a college degree in Fashion, and assuming the information in the book is true, I found this read to be very informative. It offers insights on how the industry operates, how everyone in it interacts/does business/socializes, how a small fashion house runs, and how a collection is conceptualized, designed, created and put on the runway. It really paints an excellent picture of what a designer must do to create a successful collection and maintain a successful label while offering funny celebrity and fashion gossip. True or not, it's still an entertaining read, especially to those who love fashion.

Fashion Babylon

This story is a peak behind the scenes of the fashion industry. It mixes real events and people with fictionalized characters to make the story flow as smoothly as a Prada silk dress. Fashionistas will recognize every step on the story year.

Behind-the-scenes insights of an industry

FASHION BABYLON: LOOKING UP THE SKIRTS OF THE WORLD'S MOST GLAMOROUS INDUSTRY questions the foundations of what is fashion and what is fashionable, from what makes a fashion trend - and changes it - to how supermodels evolve, how designers rise to fame, and who makes money. To achieve these insights, six months of a designer's life explore how a fashion concept is put together and tested, from idea into the shops and magazine covers. It's the behind-the-scenes insights of an industry and art libraries - as well as general-interest collections where fashion is of interest - must have this. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

must see if want to be in the industry

this is a quite interesting book that have lost of gossip, and some time inoformation in side~ let u to know more about the market.

An Insiders Look at What We'll Never See

Written in novel form this is a insider look at the high fashion industry. And an industry it is. There's something very subtle that makes one simple little black dress cost $5,000 and one almost identical at WalMart that might be $50. And there's something that makes one girl get paid a small fortune for wearing that $5,000 dress down a runway while dozens of very similar looking girls are walking around outside in the WalMart dress merely walking to work. And strangely enough, that WalMart dress just may have been a $5,000 dress a very short time ago, walking down a runway in front of cameras that were waiting to send pictures to China, Korea or elsewhere. The story here is partly credited to Anonymous, supposedly a top of the line designer in England, but one who has never quite made it across the Atlantic. It's a fascinating look at an indistry, a lifestyle that most of us will never touch.