This extraordinary memoir "Outrageous Crimes of Fashion" by gifted writer Rita Lewkowicz, lays out a delicious and satisfying roadmap for the next great Oscar-winning American comedy drama.
This story is better than Prada, and is perfect for a film or Broadway adaptation. An accomplished actress like Nina Arianda, for example, would be so perfect for the starring role.
Story: 1970's - New York City: The young heroine, who comes from a straight-laced middle class background, is fed-up with college life, and quits her graduate studies at NYU. Naive and penniless, she decides to eke out a living selling T-shirts on a rickety street table in the middle of a rough, urban, crime-ridden neighborhood. Innocent and determined, she encounters a plethora of characters; some are colorful and fascinating, others are distasteful and unsavory.
With humor, courage, faith, talent and sheer strength of personality, she manages to endure and overcome her daunting circumstances.
Endowed with her natural gifts for fashion design, business instincts, and the uncanny ability to understand her client niche, she becomes a successful fashion entrepreneur and catapults her meager livelihood into a gigantic commercial enterprise.
This is an endearing story of a young, intelligent woman, who goes from rags to riches. When you read it, you feel like you are inside of a movie; feeling all of her feelings, and cheering her on as she navigates obstacles, hurdles and obstructions that unexpectedly block her path. You are with her all the way as she conquers hardships one by one; coming out stronger and more successful than she ever would have dreamed.
The author's writing uses vocabulary in a very creative way. You actually feel as if you are living inside a movie.
This book is highly recommended for its comforting, heartening, optimistic, hopeful, and promising themes.
As the book's back cover states: "A must read for absolutely anyone who wears clothing."
Agreed!!
NYC Book Afficionado
This amazing story is an “eyes wide open” book about the wild ride of a college drop out, whose dream of changing the world by teaching inner city kids, turns into a mesmerizing adventure through the fashion world in the 70s and 80s— which is more like a wild trip through the wizard of oz meets Alice in wonderland!
Each chapter is filled with interesting characters ranging from prostitutes, thieves, drunkards, swingers to the king of schmata and the “don” of the underworld of drugs, sex, and sales!
Don’t miss this fascinating read of a powerful, strong, female entrepreneur paving the way in a male dominated fashion world.
It would be a crime not to read this OUTRAGEOUSLY brilliant memoir.
Author, Rita Lewkowicz, takes you through her spectacular journey from rags to riches, and with the wave of her pen, she has you feeling, tasting and even smelling your way through New York City during the height of Studio 54! If you loved Sex & The City, Devil Wears Prada and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, you will LOOOVE this MUST READ novel!!!
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