Fashion Babylon (ISBN 0593056213) is a 2006 book by British author and journalist Imogen Edwards-Jones and "anonymous", exploring the world of fashion. The book is set to follow the life and times of a small fashion house based in London. Over a six month period from the day after the house's fashion show in London to their next season, the narrator describes the journey for producing a new collection.
The third in the Babylon series it follows Hotel Babylon and Air Babylon, published by Bantam Press.
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“Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)
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