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Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party

by Ashley Mears

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of “models and bottles” to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men Million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today’s New Gilded Age, the world’s moneyed classes have taken conspi

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

May 26, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780691168654