This is the story of Galliano and McQueen, the two working class British boys who shook fashion to its core. With their complicated and deeply seductive designs, they moved from the raucous art and club scene of London to the old-school heart of French couture.
Dana Thomas began her career writing for the Style section of the
Washington Post and served as Newsweek's European culture and
fashion correspondent for fifteen years. She has written for The
New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, WSJ, the Financial Times,
Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and was the European editor of Conde Nast
Portfolio. She is a contributing editor for T- The New York Times
Style Magazine, and the author of the New York Times bestseller,
Deluxe- How Luxury Lost Its Luster. She lives in Paris.
http-//www.danathomas.com
A page-turning tale of fashion's highest flyers
*i-D*
Fascinating... a well-told story of poetry, art and angst
*Tatler*
A vivid, arresting account
*Evening Standard*
More than a delicious read
*InStyle*
Riveting... [Dana Thomas] is terrific at describing the shock value
of their shows
*Mail on Sunday*
Thomas has spoken to more than 100 fashion insiders to put together
a portrait of an era dominated, in her account, by these two
uncontrollable and wild talents... Thomas's narrative flits deftly
between the "parallel professional journeys" of two men with a
similar rebellious streak
*Telegraph*
Conjures up the particular madness of the fashion treadmill, with
its constant quest for newness and the inevitability that a triumph
would be followed by a fall
*New Statesman*
Occasionally titillating and ultimately poignant
*T, The New York Times Style Magazine*
Those who have read Deluxe, Thomas's fashion-world expose, will
know she tackles subjects many steer clear of. She's done it again
with Gods and Kings, a dual biography of Alexander McQueen and John
Galliano. Their rise is a romp to read but most fascinating is
their fall
*Monocle*
A must read
*Attitude*
One of the most anticipated fashion reads of 2015 ... explores the
complicated minds of the two designers. From their brilliant early
collections and career highs to McQueen's tragic suicide and
Galliano's public meltdown, Thomas pays equal heed to the darkness
and the light of both men in this gripping story of fashion
Icaruses who flew too close to the sun
*San Francisco Chronicle*
Gods and Kings is a spectacular work of reconstruction. Many
passages conjure cinematic scenes of their lives and, more
important, lush images of the designers' work and shows in the
early and creatively fertile periods from which few photographs
(let alone scarce sample garments) survive
*Globe and Mail*
Dana Thomas unspools the intertwined lives of McQueen and design
contemporary John Galliano with the eye and precision of a
historian. It is one of the year's most inspiring works of
nonfiction
*Gawker*
A compelling drama about the high-stakes world of couture
culture
*Kirkus Reviews*
Dana Thomas has written a real-life saga that is as engaging and
compelling as a work of great fiction. By taking us inside the
fascinating world of fashion, she gives us a startling tale of
ambition, creativity, fame, and ultimately tragedy. This is a
terrific book
*Jon Meacham, author of American Lion*
Comprehensive, detailed, coldly accurate yet extraordinarily
sympathetic, Dana Thomas's Gods and Kings is a fascinating double
biography of two dressmakers of genius. But it's also a riveting,
definitive history of the three decades in which fashion devolved
from a coddling cottage business to a cutthroat industry quite
capable of killing its young. As commerce triumphs over art, you
can only cringe, but you also have to admire Thomas's exhaustive
account of what fashion folk would no doubt refer to as a moment
that will never, and can never, be repeated
*Michael Gross, author of Model*
John Galliano and Alexander McQueen raised the bar creatively and
theatrically with their high-impact fashion shows. In Gods and
Kings, Paris based fashion writer Dana Thomas digs deep with the
zeal of a historian, to chronicle the parallel dramas of the
British fashion wunderkinds, whose careers ended tragically, way
too soon
*Teri Agins, author of The End of Fashion*
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