Be-Spoke

In her seventy-year long career as a fashion journalist, syndicated newspaper columnist, author, essayist, and bloggerMarylou Luther has interviewed and written about the most iconic gures in the fashion industry. This entertaining book is a selection of wickedly amusing quotes and anecdotes from Luther's impressive roster of interview subjects-the crème-dela-crème of the fashion world. Luther's early days as a journalist are what fashion lover's dreams are made of-she met with Coco Chanel at her Rue de Cambon atelier, interviewed Christian Dior in 1957 for the Chicago Tribune, and covered Yves Saint Laurent's debut fashion collection for Dior in Paris in 1958. She served as fashion editor of The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and the Des Moines Register, received the CFDA Eugenia Sheppard award for fashion journalism, and is currently the editor of the International Fashion Syndicate and creative director of The Fashion Group International. This book celebrates the seminal, A-list fashion designers and cultural icons who Luther has interviewed and gotten to spill the proverbial fashion "dirt," everyone from Alexander Wang, Karl Lagerfeld, Ralph Lauren, Marc Jacobs, Azzedine Alaïa, Betsey Johnson, Donatella Versace, Miuccia Prada, to Thom Browne, and the list goes on. The fashion world is known for its highly eccentric and outspoken personalities, which readers get a glimpse of through a collection of revealing quotes from Luther's interviews, each playfully celebrated by fashion's favorite illustrator, Ruben Toledo, with his charming renderings of these creative individuals. Inspiring and humorous, this