From the wild sixties to the sexy seventies, they ruled the world of fashion - and fashion ruled them. Mackenzie Gold - outrageous, racy, shocking, yet desperately yearning for what she can never have. She's fashion's pop queen, obsessed with designing the hottest threads on the scene. Mia Stanton - gorgeous, refined, but tormented by the most shattering hang-up a passionate woman can possess. Her designs set trends that reap fame, wealth... and the undying envy of the person who should love her the most. Coral Stanton - uninhibited, unscrupulous, untrustworthy. She's Mia's mother, the hellfire editor of a top fashion magazine, a woman prepared to pay any price to get what she wants. Set against a canvas of free love, passion, ambition and betrayal, LABELS draws you into the world of three women determined to stop at nothing to fulfil their dreams of fashion.
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High fashion and rampant passion (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY )
Labels helps undress the world of fashion....the novel's 60s setting provides a colourful backdrop to the story, the era when designers first turned into celebrities..... an entertaining look behind the scenes of the fashion world (PALM BEACH POST )
Fashion and passion in the London, Paris and New York of the Sixties, the author is a former designer at Nina Ricci and rips a mean literary bodice. The story 'tells all' about the bitchy world of haute couture. (SUNDAY INDEPENDENT )
Former fashion insider Harold Carlton has spilled the beans on the exclusive world of haute couture. A host of flamboyant characters, all obsessed with fashion, against a background of drugs, sexual freedom and the era of the wild 60s... one of those books that you can't put down till the last page. (PERTH SUNDAY TIMES )
A sizzler to keep you turning the pages...... dishes the dirt on the world of high fashion (PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH )
This cult classic's packed with enough passion and scandal to leave your heart pounding. Magnificent. (NOW MAGAZINE )
Labels helps undress the world of fashion....the novel's 60s setting provides a colourful backdrop to the story, the era when designers first turned into celebrities..... an entertaining look behind the scenes of the fashion world (PALM BEACH POST )
Fashion and passion in the London, Paris and New York of the Sixties, the author is a former designer at Nina Ricci and rips a mean literary bodice. The story 'tells all' about the bitchy world of haute couture. (SUNDAY INDEPENDENT )
Former fashion insider Harold Carlton has spilled the beans on the exclusive world of haute couture. A host of flamboyant characters, all obsessed with fashion, against a background of drugs, sexual freedom and the era of the wild 60s... one of those books that you can't put down till the last page. (PERTH SUNDAY TIMES )
A sizzler to keep you turning the pages...... dishes the dirt on the world of high fashion (PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH )
This cult classic's packed with enough passion and scandal to leave your heart pounding. Magnificent. (NOW MAGAZINE )
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Set against a canvas of free love, passion, ambition and betrayal, 'Labels' draws you into the delicious lives of three wildly different women for whom nothing - not men, not friends, not even money - is more important than fulfilling their vision of fashion.
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By Mary_10
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Labels is the story of three determined, talented women, driven by overpowering ambitions and tormented by forbidden desires. They ruled the world of fashion and fashion ruled their lives. Mackenzie Gold was shocking, sexy and ambitious - she had always longed to escape her stifling Bronx upbringing, and with her new kind of boutique, selling her own outrageous designs, she would take New York by storm. Mia Stanton had grown up surrounded by sophisticated high fashion. Beautiful, refined but cold, as a designer she would win the admiration of a host of rich and famous clients - but not of the person who should love her most. Coral Stanton Mia's dominating mother was the much-feared editor of the country's leading fashion magazine. She had battled her way to the top; now she was determined that no one should challenge her.
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Fun and Engaging
10 Dec 2010
By M. B.
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This over-the-top romp has all the right ingredients for a swift reading. You got the hip fashionista mother from hell, her sexually frigid daughter, the wild card of a best friend, and a slew of other eccentric characters all caught up into a cockamamie but oh-so-fine path to self-destruction and, ultimately, renewed hope. Now, the plot. Where do this reviewer begin. Well, behind all of the fashion scenes of the 60s and 70s and scores of frothy-based situations exist the sexual elements; scads of them, all having to do with personal fulfillments that verge from, say, possession of a leather coat (!) to possession of one's self-esteem (yes, you've read right). They are all done with a dose of the wicked and scandal, like a so bad it's so great Hollywood picture (think "Showgirls", "The Lonely Lady") that holds dear to some moviegoers' heart. Anyway, to make a long story short let just say that this LABELS tale is so extravagant and unrestrained, you'll end up having a ball following the lives of these three messed-up dolls. Author Harold Carlton knows how to grab its readers with his easy breezy narrative, his descriptive fleshly setting, and his worked on dialogue reminiscent of the late Jacqueline Susann's. So go on and indulged in LABELS. You'll thank yours truly for the ride.-----Martin Boucher.
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9 Sep 2003
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Once I started reading this novel I couldnt put it down. It follows several lives running in parallel throughout several decades. I loved this book and it has got me completely gripped by the world of fashion!
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Libels
10 Mar 2013
By ReasonableGoatPerson
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Who doesn't love a gossipy, trashy 80s novel? Not me! Well, that's exactly what you've got here. The story of three women in the fashion industry of the 1960s-- two designers and a magazine editor-- their lifes and loves and all that.
I don't normally like my mains to be older. This is true. For a time I was disappointed in myself, thinking 'you ageist; you bad, bad person.' Then I realized, no, I'm not an ageist-- or if I am it's in a complimentary way-- I just don't like reading about people who are past behaving like immature idiots, which is, thanks to that wonder of wonders, Experience, what most older people happen to be. But Experience does not always lead to Wisdom. No. Labels reminded me that the young haven't cornered the market on bad judgement and huge mistakes. Here we get someone living a life of brain malfunction not previously known on her side of 40! I loved reading about this woman, Coral Stanton; she was my favourite of the three leads. When I saw that the next section of text was going to be about her, I got really happy, really fast. If the book would have been about her alone, 5 stars for sure! Don't get me wrong, the other girls' lives aren't terrible reading; they just aren't as hardcore as Coral is. Hydrochloric acid, what?
Carlton puts it thus: "I think anyone's story is the story of whether they overcome their childhood or not." Will they? Won't they? Read Labels and find out.
I don't normally like my mains to be older. This is true. For a time I was disappointed in myself, thinking 'you ageist; you bad, bad person.' Then I realized, no, I'm not an ageist-- or if I am it's in a complimentary way-- I just don't like reading about people who are past behaving like immature idiots, which is, thanks to that wonder of wonders, Experience, what most older people happen to be. But Experience does not always lead to Wisdom. No. Labels reminded me that the young haven't cornered the market on bad judgement and huge mistakes. Here we get someone living a life of brain malfunction not previously known on her side of 40! I loved reading about this woman, Coral Stanton; she was my favourite of the three leads. When I saw that the next section of text was going to be about her, I got really happy, really fast. If the book would have been about her alone, 5 stars for sure! Don't get me wrong, the other girls' lives aren't terrible reading; they just aren't as hardcore as Coral is. Hydrochloric acid, what?
Carlton puts it thus: "I think anyone's story is the story of whether they overcome their childhood or not." Will they? Won't they? Read Labels and find out.
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