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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lacey, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ford, Eileen.

Modeling agencies--Biography.

Modeling agencies.

Fashion--Biography.

Fashion.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 339 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]

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. Outspoken and controversial, Ford was never afraid to offend in defense of her stringent standards. When she chose, she could deliver hauteur in the grand tradition of fashion's battle-axes, from Coco Chanel to Diana Vreeland--just ask John Casablancas or Janice Dickinson. But she was also a shrewd businesswoman with a keen eye for talent and a passion for serving her clients"--Amazon.com.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-320) and index.

ISBN:

9780062108074

0062108077

OCLC:

910882140