Model woman : Eileen Ford and the business of beauty / Robert Lacey

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 339 p., 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780062108074
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 92 FOR 
LOC classification:
  • HD9999.M642 L33 2015
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Libro - Monografía Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles 92 FOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 003975

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.

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