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 Handbags and Gladrags - Maggie Alderson
 Handbags and Gladrags - Maggie Alderson ... than be seen with last season's handbag. A fashion stylist with Chic magazine, Emily is a natural blonde, a effortless size 10, travels the world for work and gets 30 per cent discount at Prada. As far as she's concerned, life is perfect. So surely a night of wild sex with a hunky Australian photographer during the fashion show season in Milan will be just another fabulous experience to add to the package? Instead, Emily starts to discover that life can be messy- and the designer clothes in your closet can be squeezed out by the skeletons lurking in there too. From the bestselling author of Pants on Fire and a former magazine editor herself, comes the delicious tale of a woman who was kidding herself that another Birkin bag was all she needed to achieve fulfilment.Newest Review: ... though they were well heeled and never had the same incentive to work as those with lesser means. Emily has a strange ... more ... childhood, though telling too much would spoil the book, though it leads to marriage to a somewhat solid father figure with financial security, though not much backbone or character, and one that puts business before everything. Seemingly happy with her husband, Ollie, Emily follows the fashion circuit from Paris to Milan, Milan to Australia, working as a stylist that sketches the new designs straight from the catwalk. It's a good background intro to the fashion world and the plasticity of the people, the image of those wo...more |
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Handbags and Gladrags - Maggie Alderson: PLASTIC PEOPLE (757 words)
by - written on 28/08/06 (Very useful, 128 readings)
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Handbags and Gladrags has an upbeat cover, and I did wonder what kind of book I was getting into, given the fact that the book offers the reader to win "A year's supply of Pout Make-up". Think I may just be too old to pout, but guess that the book was aimed at trendy women, although it actually held a good story for any age of person that is interested in fashion or the rigmarole of the high life that the fashion industry offers. Never having read Maggie Alderson before, I didn't have any idea of what her writing style was like. It's a good book to get yourself buried in and not a particularly quick read. It tells the story of those involved in the ... Read the complete review
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