Fashionable Fiction

I watched the season finale of Project Runway last night and was inspired to make a list of new and forthcoming "Fashionable Fiction." I also just want to note that I'm sad that local boy Daniel didn't win, but really Chloe's collection was better.

Some Like it Haute by Julie K. L. Dam
Humiliated by a social faux pas at a haute couture show in Paris, Alexandra Simons, an American fashion correspondent for a popular weekly magazine, attends a trendy avant-garde show and finds a potential love interest in a successful new designer, but fears he is hiding something from her.



Fashionably Late by Beth Kendrick
The youngest of four sisters, Becca Davis has always felt overshadowed by her strong-willed siblings and has always played it safe in her life, until she surprises everyone by taking a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to become a fashion designer in Los Angeles.



Goodbye, Jimmy Choo by Annie Sanders
Thrown together in their new English countryside homes by their husbands' respective careers, Izzie, a bohemian free-spirit, and Maddi, a Gucci-clad socialite, become unlikely fast friends in their shared longing for the London they left behind.




The Manolo Matrix by Julie Kenner
Searching for Mr. Right as well as the perfect pair of designer shoes, aspiring actress Jennifer Martin finds herself playing bodyguard when a would-be assassin forces her to participate in a life-or-death scavenger hunt.




Paris Hangover by Kirsten Lobe
Leaving a failed relationship with a live-in lover, a career in fashion, and New York behind, Klein is determined to start over in Paris and plunges into the idiosyncratic world of French men and dating, muddling her way through sexy Renaud, three men named Jean, and a married man who wants her to become his mistress. A first novel.


Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein
A dazzling mosaic of madcap social whirls, fashion, style, and mores captures the lives of New York City's urban upper crust as they make their way through twenty-first-century Manhattan in a post-9/11 world, in a comedic debut novel by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of The Heidi Chronicles.



The Booster by Jennifer Solow
A Manhattan kleptomaniac remembers her childhood spent in her uncle's high-fashion Madison Avenue department store, where she lived a fairy-tale existence before suffering a devastating loss that led to her termination from her advertising job and recruitment into an organized South American shoplifting ring.