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Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and polished advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider's analysis of the world of modeling. Mears, who functioned as a model in NY and London, pulls on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, providers, clients, professional photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the economics and politics - and the arbitrariness - behind the business of glamour. Checking out a largely invisible arena of social creation, she shows the way the right "look" is observed, developed, and packaged to become a prized commodity. She examines how models sell themselves, how providers promote them, and how clients decide to hire them. An original contribution to the sociology of work in the new social economy, Costing Beauty offers abundant, accessible evaluation of the invisible ways in which gender, race, and class form worth available on the market.
