Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model

by Ashley Mears

Book Overview

Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider's study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the economics and politics-and the arbitrariness- behind the business of glamour. Exploring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520270762
• ISBN13: 9780520270763
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"