A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite Global Party Circuit of models and bottles to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the Status of men Million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne.
She lives in Boston..
Her writings have appeared in the New York Times , Elle , and other publications.
She is the author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model .
About author(s): Ashley Mears is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Women\'s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University.
A story of extreme gender inequality in a seductive world, Very Important People unveils troubling realities behind moneyed leisure in an age of record economic disparity.
Though they are priceless assets in the Party circuit, these women are regarded as worthless as long-term relationship prospects, and their bodies are constantly assessed against men\'s money.
These girls enhance the Status of the men and enrich club owners, exchanging their bodily capital for as little as free drinks and a chance to Party with men who are rich or aspire to be.
She describes how clubs and restaurants pay promoters to recruit beautiful young women to their venues in order to attract men and get them to spend huge sums in the ritual of bottle service.
Mears spent eighteen months in this world of models and bottles to write this captivating, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking narrative.
In Very Important People , sociologist, author, and former fashion model Ashley Mears takes readers inside the exclusive Global nightclub and Party circuit--from New York City and the Hamptons to Miami and Saint-Tropez--to reveal the intricate economy of beauty, status, and money that lies behind these spectacular displays of wealth and leisure.
In today\'s New Gilded Age, the world\'s moneyed classes have taken conspicuous consumption to new extremes.
A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite Global Party Circuit of models and bottles to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the Status of men Million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne
