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Fashion is a business of smoke and mirrors, notorious for crushing the souls of most who dare to be part of the industry. Go on a global expedition with New York City-based fashion buyer, strategist, and consultant, Mercedes Gonzalez, as she learns that there is no glamour in fashion and that only cutthroat corporate espionage prevails. From politicking with blood diamond dealers and Russian kingpins to living in indigenous villages, she has relied on her street smarts and fear of her uncle in order to outwit the industry tyrants at their own game.

Le dernier matin, Karl Lagerfeld est mort seulement accompagné de Sébastien, son bodyguard et homme de confiance avec qui il dînait en tête-à-tête presque chaque soir. Lors de la cérémonie funèbre, défilèrent Bernard Arnault et les frères Wertheimer, Caroline de Monaco et Inès de la Fressange, les premières des ateliers de couture Chanel et de jeunes mannequins. L’empereur de la mode avait exigé de disparaître en cendres, avec cette « panoplie » si reconnaissable – lunettes noires et catogan – qui servait de rempart à ses secrets. C’est seulement maintenant que les témoins parlent.

A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2024 This “first comprehensive anthology of the marriage between hip-hop and luxury fashion” (The Cut) draws on exclusive interviews to tell the story of the hip-hop artists, designers, stylists, and unsung heroes who fought the power and reinvented style...

This “empowering and inspirational” (People) memoir of struggle and perseverance offers new ways of envisioning economic equality for everyone—from a leading activist and fashion pioneer. “With community and sisterhood at its center, Wildflower teaches us that against all odds, we can...

In 1835, at the age of 13, a young boy walked nearly 300 miles to Paris; he worked odd jobs, and did whatever it took to survive. He eventually learned a craft: box making. Before long, the young boy had earned enough to open his own box-making store.

¿Un genio empresarial? ¿Un visionario? ¿Un trabajador infatigable y apasionado? Todo esto y mucho más parece ser Amancio Ortega, el hombre que creó el imperio Zara y que por primera vez habla en un libro acerca de su vida y de su empresa. Covadonga O' Shea, periodista y presidenta del Instituto Superior de Empresa y Moda (ISEM), conoce a Ortega desde el año 1990, cuando visitó por primera vez las instalaciones de Inditex en Arteixo.

From the depths of financial despair to the glittering celebrity world of the rich and famous, Theo Fennell's journey has been anything but predictable. With humour, candour and self-depreciation, Fennell charts the highs and lows of his remarkable career, from dealing with hardened criminals to designing for Elton John, Lady Gaga and Madonna.

Joining us at Audible Studios is Esme Young, English fashion designer and judge on the BBC's The Great British Sewing Bee. Beginning her career in the 1970s, Young established her brand 'Swanky Modes', opening a shop in Camden Town. Her designs were sought after, and appeared in ID and Nova. She has also designed costumes for films such as Bridget Jones's Diary and Trainspotting, including the iconic bunny outfit for Renée Zellweger. Esme Young has now written Behind the Seams, her memoir looking back over her life and time in fashion.

Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue editor extraordinaire from the Blitz to the Swinging Sixties is the untold story of our most iconic fashion magazine in its most formative years, in the Second World War. It was an era when wartime exigencies gave its editor, Audrey Withers...

Praise for Alexandra Shulman: 'Self-deprecating and stylish, this is sure to become a classic.' - Vanity Fair 'Alexandra Shulman's style is unaffected, immediate and hilariously dry. She's brilliant at observing everyday feelings in a joy-sparking turn of phrase.' - Helena Bonham Carter Black...

A partir de centenares de entrevistas con amigos, colaboradores y empleados próximos a Anna, Amy Odell despliega una inspiradora historia de poder y ambición en un universo, el de las revistas de moda, tan fértil en glamour como en mezquindades. De niña, Anna Wintour carecía de cualquier interés por la ropa, pero cuando en la adolescencia descubrió las minifaldas y los cortes de pelo bob, se obsesionó. Su padre, un influyente periodista británico y figura clave en su vida, vaticinó que terminaría siendo directora de Vogue. Ella no cejó en su empeño hasta lograrlo.

"This audiobook is perfect not only for people in love with fashion, but also for anyone interested in fashion as art, obsession, and ever-present societal phenomenon."—Booklist A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press. In the tradition of The Barbizon and The Girls of Atomic...

Brought to you by Penguin. From Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic Robin Givhan comes a groundbreaking chronicle of the legacy of Virgil Abloh, whose iconic rise to the top of the fashion industry transformed our ideas about the connection between who we are and what we wear In 2018...

From a Nottingham alleyway to a global empire, Threads is the story of a truly unique British fashion icon. ‘I always say that you can find inspiration in everything. And if you can't, look again’ – Sir Paul Smith Sir Paul’s journey has been anything but conventional: from leaving school...

De son rôle de jeune maman à l'arrivée de ses deux paires de jumeaux en passant par les affres parentales de l'adolescence à l'ère des réseaux sociaux, sa vie de femme, la PMA, sa ménopause précoce, Élodie Gossuin se confie dans ce livre sur son parcours avec le franc-parler qui la caractérise. Loin de l'image idéale des réseaux et des médias, elle nous propose une vision complètement décomplexante de sa vie tout sauf parfaite.

Brought to you by Penguin. Dame Zandra Rhodes has spent her life rallying against what was expected of her, both as a designer and a woman. Often perceived as too bold for the mainstream, she fought for creativity and individuality, and continues to achieve both in everything she does. In this...

Não existe um vestir neutro, mesmo que você escolha estar de bege da cabeça aos pés. Somos seres que influenciam e que são influenciados. Sintya Motta e Leila Rabello trazem o conceito de cognição do vestuário para a realidade brasileira. Com base nele, pretendem ampliar o entendimento acerca do poder que as roupas têm sobre a construção de uma autoimagem positiva, a partir da qual possamos sentir mais bem-estar, mais autoconfiança e, até mesmo, mais produtividade nas nossas tarefas – inclusive em tempos de home office.

A raw and poignant memoir of a daughter’s journey from a difficult upbringing in rural Alabama to a fulfilling life as a wife and mother with a successful career far beyond the limitations of her upbringing, Mildred J Mills describes unimaginable highs like becoming a fashion model, beauty pageant winner, and corporate American executive, and devastating lows like the horror of gang rape as she simultaneously conveys deep love and respect for most of those who hurt her.

Ludwig Bemelmans's charming intergenerational friendship with the late-in-life "First Lady of Interior Decoration" provides an enormously enjoyable nostalgia trip to the sun-soaked glamour of Los Angeles, where de Wolfe surrounded herself with classic movie stars and a luminous parade of life's oddities.

Cristóbal Balenciaga no se dejaba ver en sus desfiles ni salía jamás a saludar tras finalizarlos. Si hacemos caso a la leyenda, el diseñador vasco seguía con detalle los pases a través de un discreto agujero practicado en las cortinas de terciopelo que decoraban su maison. Apenas existen retratos suyos, e incluso llegó a calar el rumor de que el hombre invisible de la alta costura no era más que una invención, una estrategia comercial elaborada con astucia.