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The Bitches of Fifth Avenue series returns with Book Two, Cutthroat Couture
After Olivia Wyatt's ultra-privileged life in DC ended in spectacular disaster, Olivia's second act has all the markings of success. She successfully climbed the ladder at the exclusive Harper James department store all the way to the notorious fifth floor-home to the personal shopping salon. When it comes to keeping the most coveted clients in New York and beyond happy, the stakes and stilettos are higher than ever.
Olivia can tackle any shopping demand-from the outrageous to the obscure-but mastering the art of out-maneuvering her mean-girl co-workers was not a skill she had planned on needing. The private school dinner party moms of her past were nothing compared to her colleagues on the personal shopping floor. Determined not to be derailed, Olivia resolves to tackle each backstabbing, manipulating shopgirl one by one, build her exclusive list of clients and create a better life for herself and her teenage daughter Gwynnie.
Packed with all of the glamour and fun that defined the series debut, Champagne at Seven!, Cutthroat Couture takes readers deeper into the secretive world of the ultra-rich and ultra-fashionable, with heartfelt and often hilarious results.
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Toni Glickman is a former retail executive, who spent twenty years in the cashmere and silk-studded front lines in the luxury space of this piranha infested industry. Toni, in her provocative new book Bitches of Fifth Avenue, reveals the story of life behind the luxury lines-what the client never sees. The exhaustion, depression, and anxiety-ridden days of an employee's experience, which clients never realize. The fear of low sales numbers, of losing rank, of losing a job to someone with a better client book. Also, there's the fear of returned merchandise and the constant worry of losing a client to another salesperson. Never a moment of purity, or peace, or calm. It is a life lived constantly on the edge. Saks Fifth Avenue, Prada, Jil Sander, Chanel, Bloomingdale's and Burberry-these were just a few brands in which Toni achieved success before ultimately being backstabbed by those she thought she could trust.Moving up the ladder from sales associate to industry executive, Toni Glickman compares working in the field to the front lines of a minefield. Her colleagues exemplified the mines in which she had to navigate through in order to survive and make her sales numbers, which is all that matters at the end of the day when the cash registers close. An employee in this industry is only respected by how much business is done, in business lingo: "day over day, month over month, and year over year". Expectations run high, illness is not permitted, and personal lives are ignored. It is report after report, endless conference calls, sales strategies, and goals. Personal shoppers do whatever it takes-it is sell, sell, sell.Toni Glickman now enjoys life as a real estate professional, where she sets her own schedule and no longer needs to contend with maneuvering "bitchy" retail colleagues. She's also a Francophile, plays classical piano, loves the cinema, travel, her children, family, friends, and Teacup Pomeranian-her very bold, spirited, and lovable pet dog. And, of course, her forever passion for fashion.
