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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Lacey, Robert, author.     Subjects     Ford, Eileen.     Modeling agencies -- Biography.     Fashion -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lacey, Robert, author.       by title:      Model woman : Eileen...         MARC Display

Model woman : Eileen Ford and the business of beauty / Robert Lacey. by Lacey, Robert, author. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, c2015. Subjects Ford, Eileen.   Modeling agencies -- Biography.   Fashion -- Biography. ISBN:  9780062108074 (hardcover) 0062108077 (hardcover) Description:  x, 339 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 746.92 Ford La Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 746.92 Ford La Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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