Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women - Hardcover

Gross, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688126596 ISBN 13: 9780688126599

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1995

Synopsis

An expose of the modeling industry recounts the stories of the top models and reveals the ugly convergence of sex, wealth, drugs, obsession, and death behind the glamour, based on interviews with those in the know. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

About this title

Review:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0688126596
• ISBN 13: 9780688126599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 524