Download or read book Cutthroat Couture written by Toni Glickman and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bitches of Fifth Avenue series returns with Book Two, Cutthroat Couture After Olivia Wyatt’s ultra-privileged life in DC ended in spectacular disaster, Olivia's second act has all the markings of success. She successfully climbed the ladder at the exclusive Harper James department store all the way to the notorious fifth floor—home to the personal shopping salon. When it comes to keeping the most coveted clients in New York and beyond happy, the stakes and stilettos are higher than ever. Olivia can tackle any shopping demand—from the outrageous to the obscure—but mastering the art of out-maneuvering her mean-girl co-workers was not a skill she had planned on needing. The private school dinner party moms of her past were nothing compared to her colleagues on the personal shopping floor. Determined not to be derailed, Olivia resolves to tackle each backstabbing, manipulating shopgirl one by one, build her exclusive list of clients and create a better life for herself and her teenage daughter Gwynnie. Packed with all of the glamour and fun that defined the series debut, Champagne at Seven!, Cutthroat Couture takes readers deeper into the secretive world of the ultra-rich and ultra-fashionable, with heartfelt and often hilarious results.
Download or read book The Collection written by Gioia Diliberto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale based on the highly competitive world of Coco Chanel follows the experiences of 1920s orphan Isabelle Varlet, who in early adulthood recovers from the death of her fiancé by developing her seamstress talents and struggling through the cutthroat world of high fashion. By the author of I Am Madame X. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
Download or read book Beneath a Starlet Sky written by Amanda Goldberg and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling authors of Celebutantes return with a dazzling new novel set among the star-studded crowds of the Cannes Film Festival, where everyone's hoping to discover, sign, screw or become the Next Big Thing. And a three-picture deal would be nice. Lola Santisi—CEO of a struggling fashion line, reformed Actorholic and daughter of Hollywood Royalty—is now not only bicoastal, she's Bi-Lolar: That is the condition which causes her to swing like a pendulum between the opposing poles of the fashion world in New York and the real world with her Doctor Boyfriend in Los Angeles. She hardly knows which shoe fits her anymore: the Louboutin stiletto or the Croc. As Lola tries to launch Julian Tennant's new dress line, it looks like they're about to get their next big break: his wedding dresses have been chosen to feature in the top film at the Cannes Film Festival. And suddenly Lola is staging a full-blown couture show on a yacht – in the middle of the Med. Think those super models had trouble walking down the catwalks at Fashion Week? With an unexpected finale twist, this time it's Lola who's tumbling off the runway. Having recently endured a disastrous break-up with Lola's brother Christopher, Kate Woods, Lola's BFF and CAA's rising star agent, is newly single, and focused 24-7 on her clients. The only thing worse than thinking it was a good idea for Kate to date Lola's brother, is thinking it was a good idea for Kate to put one of her most loose-cannon clients, Nic Knight, in Lola's father's movie. Among Kate's other mega star clients is Saffron Sykes whose appearance on the cover of Vain magazine in Julian Tennant could be the difference between Julian Tennant, Inc. weathering the economy or going bust. As Lola fights to survive the Cannes Film Festival, will she get swept into the French Riviera's riptide of glamour and superficiality? Are real love and couture mutually exclusive? Or can Lola have it all – the good doctor and her Louboutins. With her father and brother vying for the same prize, her mother starring in her new reality show, and one heartbroken girlfriend about to declare motherhood, it's all on Lola to come up with the answers. And it's going to take more than one of her mother's prosperity chants to save the day.
Download or read book Designer Knockoff written by Ellen Byerrum and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fashion columnist Lacey Smithsonian learns that a new fashion museum will soon grace decidedly unfashionable D.C., it's more than a good story-it's a chance to show off her vintage Hugh Bentley suit. And it's not long before the dapper designer himself spots Lacey in the crowd. A reporter at heart, she manages to get all the juicy details about his past-including a long-unsolved mystery about a missing employee. Could it be linked to the disappearance of a Washington intern or the recent Bentley boutique robbery? Lacey sets out to unravel the murderous details in a fabric of lies, greed-and (gasp!) very bad taste...
Download or read book Business Genius written by Peter Fisk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, a more inspired approach to business. Business Genius describes how to grow your business more effectively through intelligent strategy and imaginative leadership, radical innovation and sustained change. Combining the entrepreneurial passion of a start-up with the commercial rigour of large enterprises... this is for everyone who seeks the inspiration to think and act differently. Business Genius helps you drive more profitable, sustainable growth in today’s fast changing and connected markets. It explores the challenges of strategy and innovation, leadership and change as you grow your business, and yourself, in order to achieve high performance. From the craze for Crocs to the cool of Diesel, the secrets of Kikkoman and energy of Red Bull, the vision of Google and disruption of Current TV, the revolution of P&G and the phenomenon of Umpqua – the book captures the best insights from around the world, and a new agenda for today’s business. Seeing things differently is the foundation of genius. Connecting your left and right brain to think more holistically, exploring opportunities from the future back as well as now forward – then doing business from the outside in rather than the inside out, in order to turn radical ideas into practical action.
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Download or read book Champagne at Seven written by Toni Glickman and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Champagne at Seven! Book One of Bitches of Fifth Avenue series: Olivia Wyatt, a mid-40s, rich Washingtonian who beautifully plays the part of mother, socialite, philanthropist, wife, and Stepford cut-out doll in the chardonnay and whiskey-wrapped superficial world in which she lives. Her exclusive last minute D.C. dinner party didn't quite end how she had anticipated. Tragic news was served up late night instead of her planned dessert of luscious and blissful black forest cake. Olivia and her daughter, Gwynnie, suddenly need to rebuild their lives—and themselves. Olivia reluctantly moves from her Georgetown high society personal battlefield back to New York City, and is on the prowl for work, only to find herself fighting in the trenches of a new, more intense luxury retail sales war. She dodges designer landmines in her new job as a high-end personal shopper—which only catapults her into a fifth gear spin cycle of anxiety, insanity and toxicity. She is now working alongside Bitches of Fifth Avenue in a gut-wrenching and nerve-wracking struggle to maintain her sanity, and her bank account. Olivia needs to find her way, and fast, before she loses her mind—and her job.
Download or read book Put Your Diamonds Up written by Ni-Ni Simone and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They're the daughters of celebrities - the kind all the teen magazines gossip about! But the 'It Girls of Hollywood High' are about to discover that fame has a price. And no friendship - or romance - is safe. YA Superstars Ni-Ni Simone and Amir Abrams reunite for the third novel in the glitzy series full of hidden secrets.
Download or read book From Fake to Forever written by Kat Cantrell and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bride: Meredith, soon-to-be co-owner, wedding dress business Marital Status: Victim, Vegas wedding mix-up Action Required: Divorce, ASAP After one night of tequila and sex, their impromptu Vegas wedding shouldn't be valid. But Meredith Chandler-Harris just discovered she's still tied to irresistible businessman Jason Lynhurst. She needs out of their marriage, but to become his company's new CEO, he needs her as a bride. Let the newlywed games begin.
Download or read book Galliano written by Kerry Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galliano: Spectacular Fashion is the first detailed guide to the work of one of fashion's greatest talents. Though the designer's otherwise glittering career has been punctured by years out of the limelight, his catalogue of work remains astonishing. Written by internationally renowned fashion expert Kerry Taylor, this beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched book looks in depth at John Galliano's collections from his 1984 graduate show at Saint Martins to his triumphant renaissance at Maison Margiela in 2015. With never-before-seen images of rare designs from private couture archives, close ups revealing the intricacies of garments, and iconic runway shots showing the designer's most innovative creations in motion, this visually rich book examines his revolutionary designs in unprecedented depth. In addition, original interviews with the designer as well as the people who worked closely with him throughout his career shed new light on both the clothes and the context in which they were created. A must-have for fashion lovers, collectors and researchers alike, Galliano: Spectacular Fashion is the ultimate overview of the work of a design genius.
Download or read book Satin Dreams written by Maggie Davis and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-and-coming model faces the pleasures—and pressures—of fame in this novel of romantic suspense from the award-winning author of Satin Doll. Alix is on her way to becoming the hottest fashion model in Paris. She has success, power, beauty—and a dark secret. She is running away from a past she refuses to accept and a man she refuses to be tamed by. Serving as the model for the first American fashion house opening in Paris, Alix must use her unusual beauty and skills to help with the launch, or else it will end in dismal failure. Can she resist the dark eyes of the mysterious man who haunts her and escape her past?
Download or read book Camouflage written by C. C. Avram and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Stern has reason to be livid. She was abandoned at birth by her mother. Dubbed a freak by her classmates because she had what they called Hocus Pocus, Helen was never allowed to live a normal existence. Helen prays nightly for an escape, often fantasizing that her birth mother would one-day rescue her from the madness that her life had become. On her fourteenth birthday, Helen meets the exquisite and beautiful billionaress, Andrea Jacobson-Preston with whom she feels immediate kinship. In the picturesque English garden of her Rollan Hills home, Helen feels compelled to pour out her soul to this stranger. Four years later Helen’s life shatters when she learns that the woman at her party was in fact her birth mother. Vowing revenge Helen embarks on a clandestine plan to destroy Andrea Jacobson. Helen turns up on her mother’s doorstep declaring herself the long lost “Prodigal Daughter”. Integrating herself into the family she exemplifies the perfect offspring, loved by everyone, except perhaps the family’s old vanguard, Melissa. All the time, however, Helen is plotting Andrea’s final dimache. When Maya, Helen’s adopted mother unexpectedly dies, Helen learns the truth surrounding her perceived abandonment. Too late to turn back the clock on her clandestine plan, she must prepare herself for the worst for the success of her plan will not only destroy her mother but in the process destroy her very soul.
Download or read book A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries written by Bonnie English and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of a bestselling textbook is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in 20th century fashion history. Accessibly written and well illustrated, the book outlines the social and cultural history of fashion thematically, and contains a wide range of global case studies on key designers, styles, movements and events. The new edition has been revised and expanded: there are new sections on eco-fashion, fashion and the museum, major changes in the fashion market in the 21st century (including the impact of new media and retailing networks), new technologies, fashion weeks, the rise of asian fashion centers and more. There are twice as many illustrations. In its second edition, A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries is the ideal introductory text for all students of fashion.
Download or read book Consuming Germany in the Cold War written by David F. Crew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sitting in the ruins of the Third Reich, most Germans wanted to know which of the two post-war German states would erase the material traces of their wartime suffering most quickly and most thoroughly. Consumption and the quality of everyday life quickly became important battlefields upon which the East-West conflict would be fought. This book focuses on the competing types of consumer societies that developed over time in the two Germanies and the legacy each left. Consuming Germany in the Cold War assesses why East Germany increasingly fell behind in this competition and how the failure to create a viable socialist "consumer society" in the East helped lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. By the 1970s, East Germans were well aware that the regime's bombastic promises that the GDR would soon overtake the West had become increasingly hollow. For most East German citizens, West German consumer society set the standards that East Germany repeatedly failed to meet.By exploring the ways in which East and West Germany have functioned as each other's "other" since 1949, this book suggests some of the possibilities for a new narrative of post-war German history. While taking into account the very different paths pursued by East and West Germany since 1949, the contributors demonstrate the importance of competition and highlight the connections between the two German successor states, as well as the ways in which these relationships changed throughout the period. By understanding the legacy that forty-plus years of rivalry established, we can gain a better understanding of the current tensions between the eastern and western regions of a united Germany.
Download or read book The Art of Couture Sewing written by Zoya Nudelman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Couture Sewing, 2nd Edition is a practical guide to custom techniques in the construction of couture garments. Beginning with a brief history of haute couture, the book moves on to cover tools and supplies, matching fabrics with the appropriate needles and threads, pressing, and construction techniques. Basic draping skills, corset construction, and tailoring, as well as the variety of closures, hems and finishes used in couture are discussed. The text is filled with step-by-step techniques along with clear instructions and illustrations. Nudelman covers many embellishment techniques, including beading, embroidering, and an expanded range of fine and decorative stitches including eyelet overcasting and ribbon rosette. Highly illustrated with photographs of couture designs as well as close-ups of finishes and details, The Art of Couture Sewing, 2nd Edition will inspire the design of high-quality garments using haute couture construction methods. New to this edition ~Expanded coverage of the construction of facings, linings, underlinings, interlinings, and interfacings (Chapter 4) ~All-new chapter on constructing large skirts including trains, hoop skirts, and petticoats (Chapter 6) ~Chapter 8 features new fabric manipulation and embellishment techniques including couching, eyelet stitching, ribbon embroidery, goldwork, beadwork are stitching, motif beaded embroidery methods, and working with sequins, rhinestones, and crystals. ~Updated fashion photographs and new illustrations throughout the book Features ~End-of-chapter biographies discuss notable designers and their couture techniques, such as Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Vera Wang, Alexander McQueen, and Elie Saab ~More than 850 color images, including over 185 updated fashion photographs and new illustrations digitally drawn by the author
Download or read book Searching for my Missing Father An American Noir written by Allison Drew and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allison Drew’s frail, ninety-one-year-old father Tom Drew vanishes without a trace from his Salisbury, Connecticut home in July 2007. His caregiver claims he left his house on foot. Despite massive searches, he is not found. Seeking to discover what happened to her father, Allison embarks on a brutalizing psychological journey leading her to America’s eroded democratic institutions. When she criticizes the police handling of the disappearance, she is arrested for criminal trespass of her father’s home. Dragged into the criminal justice system, denied her right to trial, she sees and feels the system’s injustices. Allison’s memoir unravels the threads binding small towns and their police in a cocoon of silence. A forensic examination of the police investigation into her father’s vanishing, it is also a study of prejudice through the prism of dementia and an exploration of the emotional impact of a missing relative.