Customer's Review: I read this book straight through last weekend. I could barely put it down. This book really hits home for anyone involved in the fashion industry. I have been involved in fashion for more than 20 years. It's about time someone was brave enough to expose some of the bad dealings of the industry. Hopefully, Mr. Halperin's startling revelations will help make more people aware that it's important to beware of who you get involved with in this business. There are many bad apples out there. I encourage all parents and young models to pick up this book before getting involved in the industry. All your questions of what it's like to be a model and how to choose the right agent will be answered. And of course, you'll be intrigued by some of the horrific experiences some of the top models you see on TV have encountered. The author posed undercover as a model to get all the dirt. And he certainly does not hold back in revealing the truth about our glamorous industry.
The one professional resource that sits on the desk of almost every agency in the world. This is the book that aspiring talent looking for representation must have, and it's the only resource of its kind, listing over 2,000 agencies from around the world and the services that support the modeling industry, including * U.S. Modeling Agencies * International Modeling Agencies * Canadian Modeling Agencies * Talent Agencies * Personal Managers * Modeling Associations * Modeling Conventions * Modeling Schools * Scouting Companies * Casting Directors * Composite Card Printers. The Model & Talent Directory is the one resource you need to find the names, addresses and phone numbers to begin an amazing career in the modeling industry!
"Beyond the smoke and mirrors of the runway lies another part of the fashion world." It is there that Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Lucian Perkins finds the most compelling images: über-waif Kate Moss sipping champagne decked out in an undershirt, jeans, and a bogling network of curled hair extensions. Design maven Isaac Mizrahi fretting over a voluminous skirt. Glamour-pusses Naomi Campbell and Veronica Webb lolling around, waiting for their curlers to set, while the clock ticks at the rate of $250 per hour. Perkins gets up on the runway, too. He turns his camera on his colleagues, who form an impenetrable wall of extra-long lenses and tripods. He looks out into the audience, where he finds the gender-bending RuPaul, Southern belle Dolly Parton, and actress Mira Sorvino parked amid the ubiquitous fashion editors and buyers and socialites. And he follows the impossibly fabulous creatures as they strut their wares down that most glamorous corridor
It's something of a misnomer, the title of Larry Fink's hilariously gruesome portrait of the fashion world. In Runway, his latest and most spectacular book of photographs, the much-celebrated "catwalk" barely figures at all. Fink's much more interested in the backstage drama, and in this behind-the-scenes record of the culminating moments in the seasonal paroxysms devoted to ready-to-wear and haute couture ---> click on the title of the book for more review
A compilation of the fashion advice you've asked for... Based on her weekly Fashion 911(r) column, Helene Oseen gives you the straightforward advice and practical answers you need to help you through the daily dilemmas of fashion.
-Are you tired of having a closet full of clothes and nothing to wear that you feel good in?
-Do you want to clarify the confusion around career dressing?
-Would you like to know how to put together what you already have in a new way?
-Do you want to look and feel fantastic every day with less effort?
-Would you like to dress your body to flatter your figure realities and have them work for you instead of against you?
-Do you want to minimize spending and maximize your signature style?