Great life story and amazing voice. Resilient success in hardship and talks about difficult friendships and work life balance.

My Aunt purchased this book to read during the "Shelter in Home" phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ordinarily, she would have taken it out of the library but the library is closed. Since she now owns the book, she willingly shared it with me. Indeed, she doesn't want it back, which should give you an idea of her feelings about the book.

This is not a book I would have chosen to read but, given the opportunity, I gladly took it. I am woefully without additional books to read, having just one waiting for me to complete. I vacillated between 2 or 3 stars: Yes, the book was ok, but truth be told I did like it. Reading about all those fashion people whose names I know and pictures I have seen over the years was like reading a trashy novel and enjoying it.

This is not to imply the book was trash. Rather, I didn't find anything particularly edifying in it, and Talley's writing did not wow me. What drew me in was the behind the scenes scoops on YSL, Karl Lagerfeld and any other number of fashion personalities. Frankly, not being a fashionista, their life styles coupled with exorbitant spending of money just didn't make sense to me. And now that I've read the book, I can pass it along to anyone who wants to read it.

This is just way more about inside Fashion than I thought it would be. It's a lot of lists of names I don't know. I enjoyed the moments, especially nearer to the beginning, where he went more personal and discussed his background.

Wow I didn’t know anything about him and randomly read this based on a recommendation I heard on a podcast and I LOVED it! He’s so interesting and was such a trailblazer and his stories are so wild.