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Vanity Project

A Tale of Fashion and Celebrity Styled by Dave Thomas
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In 1988 David Thomas was an unemployed plumber with a seemingly impossible dream: to enter the world of fashion. Dave worked weekends washing dishes in a café and evenings as a lavatory attendant in a West End nightclub, and in every spare moment he hammered on the doors of fashion editors, until one of them opened a tiny crack. Having seized the chance to be an unpaid dogsbody at Riva magazine, he found his niche in the contemporary music scene, working with legends of style Judy Blame and Isabella Blow, dressing artists like Lisa Stansfield, Boy George and Kylie Minogue. In the intervening decades the business of styling has ascended from the pavement to the penthouse. What began as kids playing dress-up with ribbons and safety-pins has evolved to become the backbone of a multi-billion-dollar style and clothing industry. And David Thomas is now one of Hollywood’s most successful stylists. Vanity Project takes a behind-the-curtain look at the glamour, the tantrums, the comradeship, the rivalries, and the surprisingly hard graft of celebrity styling.
As a young, unemployed plumber, Dave Thomas dreamed of a glamorous life in fashion. He moved to London and, following stints as a dishwasher and toilet attendant, became the youngest Fashion Editor in the world for British Esquire. He ultimately moved on to edit fashion at Vogue Homme, Vanity Fair, and Interview, and his work has since been published in a raft of international magazines. With clients that include John Legend, Henry Golding, Calvin Harris, Kane Brown, David Guetta, and Lionel Richie, Dave Thomas is considered one of the original pioneers of celebrity styling.
* First in depth look at the life and work of one of the world’s leading stylists. * Dave Thomas has worked with all the leading celebrities of our age on both sides of the Atlantic * Introduction by Lionel Richie * Major international press interest
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