Wildchilds
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Product Details
Publisher: Fashion Sphinx Books
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Formats: Paperback, Ebook
ISBN: PB: 978-1-7325477-0-4; EB: 978-1-7325477-1-1
Trim: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 414
Eugenia Melián
“Wildchilds portrays a raw and harrowing insight into the dark side of the fashion industry.” —Mireille Lee, creator of A Life of Literature
“A fascinating insight into the world of glamour modeling. A FINALIST and highly recommended!” —The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
The loss of innocence, the death of beauty, and the price of success.
Seventeen years ago, Iris was forced to abandon Gus, the love of her life, and her career as a top model in Paris. She has created a new life for herself and her daughter, Lou, in California. However, when the news of Gus’s unexpected death reaches Iris, her tenuously reconstructed life is thrown into chaos. A celebrated art and fashion photographer, Gus has left his estate to Lou, with one condition: Iris must travel to Paris and recover a missing collection of his work.
Iris soon discovers that she’s not the only one after the photographs. An old enemy is staking claim to them and a notorious tabloid is threatening Iris with brutal—and very private—images of her past life. To protect her daughter from scandal, Iris needs to confront the demons that caused her to flee Paris, her career, and her life with Gus.
Iris embarks on a suspenseful journey through the closed world of the fashion industry where the beautiful people do ugly things. Will she expose the industry’s dark side and shameful secrets? Can she shield her family from the consequences?
Wildchilds is a work of fiction based on the truth.
About the Author
Eugenia Melián is a former model, fashion photographers’ agent, producer, and music supervisor who was born in the Philippines to a Spanish father and an American mother. In Paris in the early 1980s, she discovered and launched the career of the groundbreaking iconic fashion illustrator and photographer Tony Viramontes. Since that time, and working out of Milan, Paris, London, New York, and Los Angeles, she has managed, art directed, and produced some of the most talented artists of our times, including Malcolm Mclaren, David LaChapelle, Blanca Li, Matthew Herbert, Peggy Sirota and many others. This is her first novel.
Visit the author’s website at eugeniamelian.com
Reviews
“Wildchilds will take you beneath the surface of the beautiful and seductive fashion world, immersing you in a captivating dark tale where young beauties coexist with master manipulators.” —Peggy Sirota, photographer/director
“If fashion photographs could talk, and felt like telling the truth, you’d have Wildchilds—an accomplished and compelling first novel by a true insider.” —Joan Juliet Buck, author of The Price of Illusion and editor-in-chief of French Vogue 1994–2001
“Melian’s debut novel Wildchilds took me back to a time in Fashion in Paris that still makes me feel vaguely grubby by association. I’d recommend it as a primer for anyone considering a career in fashion as a model or a photographer, even today in the post-MeToo bubble.” —Prosper Keating, Paris editor Australian Vogue 1997–1999, Contributing & Features editor Vogue Hommes International 1999–2003, prosperkeating.com
“A delight to read with real insight into the dark side of the 90s fashion scene. Wildchilds has gripping characters and a plot that makes it difficult to put down.”
—Celia Forner, top model, founder of Alleven
“A brilliant novel by an insider revealing the dark side of the behind the scene proceedings of the fashion world. It reads like a thriller.” —J.S de Vicuña, film producer
“There is drama, fun, sadness, intrigue, and lots of passion in this brilliant story of love and fashion. A page-turner great first novel not to be overlooked!” —Ana Dominguez Siemens, design journalist, curator
“I fell in love with this book immediately. Iris is just so relatable. And the writing? The writing is amazing. It’s gritty, yet beautiful at the same time. Wildchilds is one of the best-written books I’ve read in a while. I would one hundred and ten percent recommend this book to anyone and everyone.” —Sunshine Bruno / Sunshine Reads
“I loved this inside look at healing and understanding. What a great first book. Melián writes a compelling tale of hurt, love, protection, and lost innocence. Women trying to stand up to the pressure of men and money. Never have we needed more support and understanding of how to show up and heal. Bravo Melián. I feel the wave of women coming to help women! More please! A big fan that believes in the power of women.” —Cindy Gershen, teacher, chef, founder of Wellness City Challenge
“First-time novelist Eugenia Melián was my agent in Paris. She writes about what she knows. Set in Paris and starring the sexy cut-throat world of fashion photographers and their nucleus. Full of intrigue, scandal, and sex. Real life or make believe?” —Donna Trope, photographer/director