Fabric of Dreams, Designing My Own Success

Hankins, Anthony Mark; Markley, Debbie

ISBN 10: 0525943293 / ISBN 13: 9780525943297

Published by Penguin Group, NY, 1998

About this Item

Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Seller Inventory # 314978

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fabric of Dreams, Designing My Own Success

Publisher: Penguin Group, NY

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

Reveals the man behind the successful line of clothing available in stores across the country and the life philosophy that led him from Elizabeth, New Jersey, to the couture houses of Paris

From Kirkus Reviews:

An exceedingly detailed and discursive memoir by the young African-American fashion designer responsible for a very successful line of inexpensive women's wear who in only a few years went from a job in the quality assurance department at J.C. Penny to heading (at the ripe age of 28) his own clothing company, with annual revenues in excess of $40 million. Hankins, one of seven children raised by an indomitable single mother in Elizabeth, N.J., demonstrated a talent for fashion at an early age--he made a dress for his mother to wear to a wedding when he was seven. His memoir (coauthored by People magazine correspondent Markley) stresses the importance of the teachers in grade and high school who encouraged him, as well as that of the many figures in the fashion industry who helped him along. The story is a good one, and Hankins hawks his clothes on the Home Shopping Network, but it's hard to imagine the network's viewers feeling they need quite so thorough a record of events in the life of someone who is, after all, still rather young and whose name is not yet on everyone's lips. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.