Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model, by Ashley Mears
How much money is beauty worth? The sentimental answer is that you can’t put a price on beauty; its value is beyond measure.
But every magazine we read and television show we watch tells us otherwise. There are industries filled with people whose jobs consist entirely of calculating how much beauty costs, and then telling you what you have to do to get it.
(Hint: It’s not cheap.)
Pricing Beauty is a perceptive and eye opening look at the modeling industry and an investigation on model success and failure. You’ll find lots of delicious tidbits from fashion insiders and models in this book, so delicious!
Mears is a former NY and London fashion model turned academic— since she used to be a fashion insider, she was able to provide that rare look into the industry that other sociologists have found elusive.
Listen to exclusive interviews with models, agents, clients, designers, and stylists. Learn how the “right look” is discovered and developed, how far models and agents are willing to go to promote themselves, or how clients decide to hire them.
Listen to this book and you’ll never watch America’s Top Model the same way again.
--Aretha Bright
