Tales from the Back Row

September 15, 2015
Odell, a Cosmo.com editor, divides her look at the fashion industry into eight different groups (and, yes, groupies). There are trendsetters who dared to wear sweatpants to dinner way before a very well-known designer captured the look in one of his collections. For bloggers, she relates an absolutely hilarious tale about getting attention by donning street style, or, as she phrases it, lumbering inside of gliding. A person of importance never walks a hallway alone, she says about certain famous designers. And so on with bloggers, celebrities, editors, models, and you and me. This great comic narrative, laced with lots of name-dropping, will evoke chucklesand a sigh of relief that there are no reader portraits.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)