The Dress Thief portrays what is meant to be a young seamstress and work in a world when men dominate but where women have sharpened claws and are not afraid to use them. And it would be a shame to miss out on this thrilling journey and insight into the cut throat world of high fashion. Now if you are thinking that this may turn into a frilly novel about fashion and sewing, you could not be more wrong. The setting in themes – The fashion houses of 1930s Paris
The main locations – With the Eiffel Tower marked in blue.ī -Faubourg St Honore – The chic streets where all the posh shops and fashion houses are C – Rue de la Tremoille where the fictious Maison Javier is locatedĭ – Boulevard St Germain – where the very real and very tasty Deux Magots isĮ The area of Pigalle where the fictional Rose Noire club is located.į -The butte Montmatre where Raphael and the artistes live This is a journey across Paris via its fashion houses, bypassing its chocolate houses, cafes, beautiful parks, imposing bridges and the darkest corners of the human conscience…. But what will be the cost if she gets caught? It is something she is hungry for and she has to support her remaining family after all. Does she have a choice? She is determined to become a designer despite being the poor, illegitimate child of a mother who was an Alsace Jewess and father from England who both died too young.
She is given a chance in a million but but only if she steals the designs. She dreams of becoming a designer in a leading fashion house.
Think Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent….Įntering this world comes at a price for Alix Gower and her attempts to make her way in the world of haute couture. The setting is the fashion houses and the cut throat fashion world in the most chicest cities in the world… This story is set in Paris in the 1930s – a decade of haute couture and haute danger…
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