Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers

rebekah l hubstenberger said When I saw that fashion journalist Teri Agins, author. When I saw that fashion journalist Teri Agins, author of The End of Fashion, had written a new book I was excited to read it. I have always been a devoted follower of fashion but Agins first book, The End of Fashion, made me realize I could come at fashion with a slightly more academic approach, something that appealed to my intellectual side and spawned personal undergraduate work in the same area. This book did not fail my high expectations. As a devoted follower of the . Soapy and fun Amazon Customer If you love fashion, you have to read this book. It's a dishy account of what happens behind the scenes of all those celebrity fashion endorsements. We all knew that most of them weren't doing their own work, but I enjoyed finding out the specifics. The author names names, so you don't have to waste time guessing. It was a nice escape to the world of glitz and glamour, and gave me some interesting anecdotes to share with my friends over brunch.. "A Revelation" according to P. A. Mcauliffe. For a reader raised wearing clothes ordered from the Sears & Roebuck catalog this was a book which took me to the magic land of high fashion. The author people's her narrative with characters I'm familiar with like Kanye West and stars like Jennifer Lopez and Brittney Spears and revealed a formerly unknown and fascinating side of them. Kept me turning pages all the way through.

And a few celebrities - like the Olsen Twins and Victoria Beckham - have gone all the way and reinvented themselves as bona fide designers. Teri Agins charts this strange new terrain with wit and insight and an insider's access to the fascinating struggles of the bold-type names and their jealousies, insecurities, and triumphs.. Hollywood stars have always furthered fashion's cause of seducing the masses into buying designers' clothes by acting as living billboards. Now, red carpet celebrities are no longer content to just advertise and are putting their names on labels that reflect the image they - or their stylists - created. Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sean Combs, and a host of pop, sports, and reality-show stars of the moment are leveraging the power of their celebrity to become the face of their own fashion brands