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Overview

The definitive story of the international modeling business—and its evil twin, legalized flesh peddling—Model is a tale of beautiful women empowered and subjugated; of vast sums of money; of sex and drugs, obsession and tragic death; and of the most unholy combination in commerce: stunning young women and rich, lascivious men.

Investigative journalist Michael Gross takes us into the private studios and hidden villas where models play and are preyed upon, and tears down modeling's carefully constructed façade of glamour to reveal the untold truths of an ugly trade.

Fashion insider Michael Gross strips bare the world's most glamorous industry in this scathingly honest portrait of models, inc. Here, for the first time, is the complete, often sordid story of the international modeling business--the outrageous sums of money, rape of the spirit and the flesh, sex, drugs and occasional deaths. Photos.

Editorial Reviews

Cosmopolitan
“Staggeringly well–researched…Hideously fascinating.”
Entertainment Weekly
“Scandalous…the exposé of record of the modeling industry.”
More Reviews (13) Fewer Reviews
Harper's Bazaar
“One long, scurrilously detailed dish. The first comprehensive history of modeling and a chewy read.”
International Herald Tribune
“A book stripping models bare has electrified fashion…Lurid stories of sex, drugs, rock and frocks.”
modelina.com
“Already in our Amazon shopping basket, we highly recommend you pick-up this wildly interesting bestseller as well.”
New York Times Book Review
“Rewarding…highly enjoyable, perhaps unprecedented. The definitive work of the Barbizon school.”
Newsweek
“Modeling is a dirty business—and we can’t get enough of it…The book…names names and dishes dirt, on–the–record kiss–and–tell.”
People
“Sprawling…energetic…Gross has obviously thought deeply about the machinations and meaning of the modeling business.”
The Daily News
“Sensational…Reveals the steamy secrets of the superbabes…Delivers everything…”
Vogue
“Page–turning exposé.”
American Photo Magazine
A sweeping account of Balzacian proportions: part exposé, part tragicomedy. Packed with once-whispered anecdotes that have fed the fashion world gossip mill for years, Model has industry insiders quaking in their Manolo Blahniks.
Entertainment Weekly
Model...is to high fashion roughly what Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was to the meatpacking industry...[a] relentless evisceration of an industry normally swathed in more shadows and light than Cindy Crawford....Michael Gross...did a stunning amount of research. His real talent, though, is getting powerful people to go on the record with astonishing candor. Scandalous...the exposé of record of the modeling industry.
International Herald Tribune
A book stripping models bare has electrified fashion...Lurid stories of sex, drugs, rock and frocks.
The Detroit News
A dishy, no-punches-pulled look at the seamy underbelly of modeling's glossy surface. But where tabloid journalism would stop at such facts, Gross uses them as a starting point for a weightier analysis. He reveals the inner workings....A veritable encyclopedia of modeling that serves as a cautionary guidebook for any parent whose child is interested in becoming the next Naomi Campbell.
Library Journal
Gross, a writer for Esquire, attempts to blow the whistle on the orgy of greed and flesh that is the modeling industry.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780062067906
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 9/27/2011
  • Pages: 576
  • Sales rank: 295,857
  • Product dimensions: 6.06 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Michael Gross
Michael Gross

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Milan, October 1993 1
Cindy Crawford 9
Part 1 In Loco Parentis
$ 5 An Hour 31
Hannah Lee Sherman 43
$ 15 An Hour 48
Francine Counihan 69
$ 25 An Hour 74
Jean Patchett 87
$ 40 An Hour 92
Suzy Parker 114
$ 60 An Hour 123
Part 2 Bad and Beautiful
Celia Hammond 153
[pound] 24 An Hour 159
Veruschka 184
$ 75 An Hour 193
Lauren Hutton 212
$ 120 An Hour 223
Apollonia Van Ravenstein
Louise Despointes
Gunilla Lindblad
Shelley Smith 255
$ 1,500 A Day 271
Janice Dickinson
Mike Reinhardt
Christie Brinkley 313
$ 2,500 A Day 330
Bitten Knudsen
Tara Shannon 359
$ 5,000 A Day 373
Christine Bolster 399
$ 10,000 A Day 411
Veronica Webb 443
$ 25,000 A Day 449
New York, October 1995 499
Epilogue 507
Acknowledgments 513
Bibliography 519
Index 525

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