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

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

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    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, author, and former fashion model Ashley Mears takes readers inside the exclusive global nightclub and party circuit--from New York City and the Hamptons to Miami and Saint-Tropez--to reveal the intricate economy of beauty, status, and money that lies behind these spectacular displays of wealth and leisure. Mears spent eighteen months in this world of "models and bottles" to write this captivating, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking narrative. A story of extreme gender inequality in a seductive world, Very Important People unveils troubling realities behind moneyed leisure in an age of record economic disparity.

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    EAN/ISBN:
    9780691168654
    Medium:
    Bound edition
    Number of pages:
    336
    Publication date:
    2020-06-23
    Publisher:
    Princeton Univers. Press
    EAN/ISBN:
    9780691168654
    Medium:
    Bound edition
    Number of pages:
    336
    Publication date:
    2020-06-23
    Publisher:
    Princeton Univers. Press

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