Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women - Softcover

Gross, Michael

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9780446603461: Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446603465 ISBN 13: 9780446603461

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1996

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With reference to the most popular models in the industry today, a fashion insider goes beyond modeling's carefully constructed facade to expose the scandal, rape, sex, and drugs that permeate the seemingly glamorous business. Reprint.

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Michael Gross exposes the day-to-day business of beautiful young women, sex and drugs. Through hundreds of in-depth interviews with models, photographers and agents, he develops a flowing narrative history of the modeling industry from its birth to the present day supermodel craze. It's a story of serendipitous careers like that of industry creator Richard Powers, an out-of-work actor who created a niche for himself by providing beautiful people for the newly-developed fields of photography and advertising.

About the Author:

Michael Gross is the author of Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles as well as Rogues’ Gallery, 740 Park, Genuine Authentic, and Model. A contributing editor to Travel + Leisure and columnist for Crain’s New York Business, he has been a columnist for the New York Times, New York, and GQ, and a contributor to Vanity Fair, Esquire, Gawker, The Huffington Post, and other publications around the world.