Chronicles of a Fashion Buyer
The Mostly True Adventures of an International Fashion Buyer
by Mercedes Gonzalez
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Pub Date Oct 28 2018 | Archive Date Oct 28 2018
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Description
Fashion is a business of smoke and mirrors, notorious for crushing the souls of most that dare to be part of the industry. Go on a global expedition with New York City-based fashion buyer, strategist, and consultant, Mercedes Gonzalez, as she learns that there is no glamor in fashion and that only cut throat corporate espionage prevails. From politicking with blood diamond dealers and Russian kingpins to living in indigenous villages, she has relied on her street smarts and fear of her uncle in order to outwit the industry tyrants at their own game. The underdog becomes the overlord (at-large). You’ll want to grab a notebook for all the business (and life) tips this read has to offer. Advance warning, this book will convince you to become a proponent of child labor, an advocate of GMO, and a cynic of organic cotton.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780764356230 |
| PRICE | $24.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Heidi R, Reviewer
CHRONICLES OF A FASHION BUYER by Mercedes Gonzales is one of the best books I’ve read this year. It was completely addicting; I could not stop reading it once I started. Mercedes is a New York City-based fashion buyer, strategist, consultant, and entrepreneur. She’s also a fabulous storyteller, and my IDOL! (Seriously, I wish I would have had someone like her - or her Uncle Manolo - as a mentor growing up!) The book tells about her journey at her uncle’s garment company where she started out at the bottom packing boxes before moving on to oversee the production of garments at a factory in China. She later became a buyer and left her uncle’s company to work somewhere else; after she was passed over for a partnership at that company, she started her own business, Global Purchasing Companies.
I loved her style of writing – it felt as if I was right there, living vicariously through all of her hilarious, witty, self-deprecating stories about her work experiences. I found myself literally laughing out loud at many parts of her story. The book is a fun, easy read, and there are a lot of business and life tips applicable to more than just the global fashion industry throughout the book. There is social commentary about serious, hot-button issues such as Chinese sweatshops, outsourcing, fair wages, and GMOs in the book; however, readers are able come to their own conclusions about the issues without feeling lectured. If you are interested in the retail industry or entrepreneurship, you will want to read this one!
Disclaimer: I received an advanced reading copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review. All opinions are my own.
Janet P, Reviewer
This absolutely fabulous book is a terrific, funny, & insightful memoir by Gonzalez. It's the story of her life, but its also the work of a born raconteur. You'll love the colorful characters she meets and her great way of telling a story. She can even make the tale of getting hit by a NYC cab drop dead hilarious.
But the book is more than just great stories, with them she imparts tons of the wisdom of experience, lessons that will improve any retail business.
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