Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

by Ashley Mears

Book Overview

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 conspicuous consumption to new extremes. In Very Important People, sociologist,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691227055
• ISBN13: 9780691227054
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"