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Designer Deceit, Book Three, of The Bitches of Fifth Avenue series:Don't think I can do this? Watch me.Olivia Wyatt is running on empty. Her days as a personal shopper in the Harper James fifth floor Salon are murderous. Despite the attempts made by her backstabbing and manipulative coworkers to bring her ruin, Olivia has single-handedly grown her client book to include some of the biggest Fifth Avenue shoppers and spenders in NYC. At home, Olivia walks a tightrope between being a single mom to her uber cool teenager, Gwynnie, and daughter to her neurotic, overprotective mother, Gladys.Just when Olivia is on the brink of abandoning hope, a serendipitous encounter with star fashion WSD journalist Blake Goldman offers her a second chance at living the life she rightly deserves. Suddenly the Salon's new "it" girl, Olivia, manifests an inner strength to outwit and outperform her cutthroat shopgirl colleagues. She finally has a decadent slice of her own cake and the chance to eat it, too. But, will her newfound success and happiness last?
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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.
