![]() She's also got a relentlessly sharp wit and a keen eye for detail. Sykes knows her way around Park Avenue parties and ultra-private samples sales better than anyone. She herself is a British-born socialite, and a very chic one at that. Plum Sykes is the ideal chronicler for Moi's escapades. There's also a wickedly funny scene of Moi wallowing in the aftermath of a breakup (and by wallowing, I mean checking into the Ritz in Paris, melodramatically drafting a suicide note and will, and washing down eight Advil with a mimosa) which frankly, made it nearly impossible for me to take my own breakup all that seriously. It follows Moi, a British-born socialite, and her heiress best friend as they trot the globe, hunting for PHs (Prospective Husbands) with plenty of backstabbing, gossiping, shoplifting and party-going to keep the reader entertained along the way. There is no real plot to Bergdorf Blondes, but frankly, there doesn't need to be. As Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City and consummate New Yorker put it, the book is "haute couture chick lit."Ĭristina Alger graduated from New York University School of Law in 2007 and lives in New York City It is fluff but it is stylish, witty, and pitch-perfect. The narrator (known only as Moi) is a self-described "champagne bubble of a girl" who sucked me into her diabolically shallow, perversely materialistic world in a New York minute. I didn't just read this book - I devoured it in one sitting. Culturally speaking, I had nowhere to go but up. I was watching six episodes of Gilmore Girls a day. ![]() Absolutely everyone wants to be one, but it's actually tres difficult." If I wanted to read a social comedy, I would pick up Emma or Vile Bodies, thank you very much. I would have never made it past the first line: "Bergdorf Blondes are a thing you know, a New York craze. Ordinarily, I would have recoiled from a perky Tiffany-blue cover emblazoned with a gigantic pink diamond ring. I'm really not one for this kind of thing. My summer job had ended and school hadn't yet begun, so I was free to spend my days in sweatpants on my couch, watching bad television. To say I was wallowing in self-pity was generous. I was fresh off the heels of a bad breakup. ![]() PS: no more Gilmore Girls reruns, seriously. It was dropped off at my apartment by a friend, with a note that read: ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Bergdorf Blondes Author Plum Sykes ![]()
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