Model woman : Eileen Ford and the business of beauty
Lacey, Robert
Model woman : Eileen Ford and the business of beauty / Robert Lacey - First edition. - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2015 - 339 p., 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illus. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-320) and index.
Supermodels for breakfast -- Nothing to do but look pretty -- Origins -- The most talented child ever born -- Great Neck -- The Bobbsey twins -- Young and beautiful -- Something mellifluous -- Model student -- Le meilleur moment de l'amour -- Jerry -- Stylist -- Agency -- New look -- Goddesses and masterpieces -- Model types -- Scouts and bookers -- Ideal for entertaining -- Shoes under the bed -- Bonjour, Paris! -- Celebrity models -- In the eye of the beholder -- Youthquake 1965 -- Rivalries -- Breakfast at Seventy-eighth Street -- The panorama -- Model wars -- The Ford empire strikes back -- Cover girls -- Sex and drugs and supermodels -- Hopping like bedbugs -- Full circle -- Beauty business -- Appendix. Top Ford models.
Chronicles the Ford Modeling Agency's meteoric rise to the top of the fashion and beauty business, and paints a portrait of the uncompromising woman at its helm in all her glittering, tyrannical brilliance.
English
9780062108074
Ford, Eileen
Modeling
Fashion---Biography
Modeling Agencies
Biography and autobiography
HD9999.M642 / L33 2015
92 FOR
Model woman : Eileen Ford and the business of beauty / Robert Lacey - First edition. - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2015 - 339 p., 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illus. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-320) and index.
Supermodels for breakfast -- Nothing to do but look pretty -- Origins -- The most talented child ever born -- Great Neck -- The Bobbsey twins -- Young and beautiful -- Something mellifluous -- Model student -- Le meilleur moment de l'amour -- Jerry -- Stylist -- Agency -- New look -- Goddesses and masterpieces -- Model types -- Scouts and bookers -- Ideal for entertaining -- Shoes under the bed -- Bonjour, Paris! -- Celebrity models -- In the eye of the beholder -- Youthquake 1965 -- Rivalries -- Breakfast at Seventy-eighth Street -- The panorama -- Model wars -- The Ford empire strikes back -- Cover girls -- Sex and drugs and supermodels -- Hopping like bedbugs -- Full circle -- Beauty business -- Appendix. Top Ford models.
Chronicles the Ford Modeling Agency's meteoric rise to the top of the fashion and beauty business, and paints a portrait of the uncompromising woman at its helm in all her glittering, tyrannical brilliance.
English
9780062108074
Ford, Eileen
Modeling
Fashion---Biography
Modeling Agencies
Biography and autobiography
HD9999.M642 / L33 2015
92 FOR