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heavily criticized the book for offering an uneven portrayal of McQueen and Galliano, stating that "to read her brass-tacks account, you’d get the impression that Galliano’s career has been fail after fail. She implicates the “gushing” fashion press in praising his work – we’re an easy bunch to
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wrote that "Ms. Thomas has produced a slightly seedy-feeling but, yes, addictive biography of two outsize personalities who seem less the gods or kings of her title than
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disparage – yet she seems more or less blind to the meaning and emotion others may have felt at Galliano’s or McQueen’s shows."
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is a double biography on the lives of two heralded British fashion designers,
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Exodus: Gods and Kings

Dana Thomas
Luxury goods
Fashion
Penguin Press
ISBN
1-594-204942
Dana Thomas
Alexander McQueen
John Galliano
New York Times
Captain Hook
Peter Pan
The Guardian
"Globe & Mail"
"'Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano', by Dana Thomas - Review"
the original
"'Gods and Kings' book tells stories of high-stakes fashion"
"Two Books Look Back at Fashion's Messy Choreography"
ISSN
0362-4331
"Gods and Kings by Dana Thomas and Alexander McQueen by Andrew Wilson review – brutally unsympathetic lives"
"Five Lessons about Self-Destruction All Creative People Should Know"
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