6/27/2023 0 Comments Poseur by rachel maude![]() ![]() Poseurs hot new handbag captures Hollywood tastemaker Ted Pelligans eye. ![]() The Good, the Fab and the Ugly by Compai and Rachel Maude and Rachel Maude. Choosing an exclusive private school in Los Angeles as a backdrop, the author dresses the mega-wealthy youth of Beverly Hills and Bel Air in Dior, Marc Jacobs and Jimmy Choo, and has them roar to school in Porsches and Jaguars, while fish-out-of-water twins Janie and Jake Farrish, scholarship students from the Valley, shop at Goodwill and share ownership of a 16-year-old Volvo. ![]() Prep and the newly named teen fashion label POSEUR introduces this seasons. The same gleeful exaggeration applies to Janie's three classmates in a special studies course focusing on fashion design: there's Charlotte, bored after a week of a summer intensive embroidery studies at a convent in Bruges, who arranges a midnight escape by chopper Melissa, daughter of the rap producer Seedy, who announces, “In the grand tradition of Jennifer Lopez and Oprah, I dream to be more than just a person. I dream to be a brand” and Petra, the ridiculously beautiful daughter of the most sought-after plastic surgeon in Hollywood, who tendentiously deplores vanity and wants to create an anti-fashion clothing line called Moral Fiber. ![]() Though the plot is predictable and the pacing uneven, the novel dishes up outsize amounts of humor, mostly at the expense of Maude's narcissistic characters. ![]()
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