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122) Fashion queen
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Inspired by the beautiful dresses at the Academy Awards show, Kylie Jean decides to try her hand at fashion--and Lilly recruits her to model the dress she is making for a school fund raising auction.
123) Unfinished: a memoir
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"A remarkable life story rooted in two different worlds, Unfinished offers insights into Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s childhood in India; her formative teenage years in the United States; and her return to India, where against all odds as a newcomer to the pageant world, she won the national and international beauty competitions that launched her global acting career. Whether reflecting on her nomadic early years or the challenges she has faced as she...
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Gabrielle Coco Chanel was, without doubt, the most influential designer of the 20th century. This book honours her influence by celebrating the key elements that defined and still define her style through inspired pairings of classic and contemporary photographs. Juxtaposing fashion plates from Chanels own time with the most recent creations by Karl Lagerfeld, such as Cecil Beaton's portrait of Coco Chanel presented alongside one of Cate Blanchett...
127) Gun shy
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When vacationing in Chile, an aging and pampered rock star2s supermodel wife is suddenly kidnapped by renegades. Unable to navigate more than ordering a sandwich from room service, now he must take to the backstreets of Santiago in this hilarious caper that is as entertaining as it is hair-raising.
128) Head over heels
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Amanda has a great job restoring paintings for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a great place to live, a spacious East Side apartment that she shares with four successful models. Amanda is in the market for a great boyfriend. She thinks she may have found the right guy in Jim Winston, but she has reason to believe that he might be guilty of murder. Since she's not sure he has actually done anything wrong, she decides to find out the truth.
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GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES: A musical about two showgirls from Little Rock -- an apparently stupid blonde golddigger and her provocative brunette friend -- searching for love and marriage aboard a luxury liner bound for France. HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE: Three fashion models pool their resources to rent an expensive penthouse with the hopes of snagging rich husbands. After several hilarious encounters with the wealthy opposite sex, the three discover...
131) Paradise kiss
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Yukari is a spirited high school senior in the process of studying for her college entrance exams. Sadly, the prospect of subjecting herself to a meaningless dull life leaves her feeling depressed about her future. In a bout of frustration, Yukari begins to ignore her courses and she begins to hang out with a group of fashion design students. But what Yukari doesn't know is that this circle is known as Paradise Kiss and they are run by a pair of young...
133) The neon demon
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When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has.
134) Desert flower
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Inspired by the life of Waris Dirie, including how she escaped from an arranged marriage at the age of thirteen and embarked upon a two-hundred-mile journey across the desert of Somalia in an adventure that eventually led her into a modeling career.
135) Triangle of sadness
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"A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --Container.
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A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men begin to fight. The sculptor is knocked out and left to 'perish' amongst the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. However, the opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the...
137) One last thing
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Dylan and his mother are invited onto national television by an organization that grants last wishes to the terminally ill. As mother and son struggle with the terminal illness, Dylan surprises everyone by making a shocking request: to spend one weekend, alone, with supermodel Nikki Sinclair. After a disappointing meet-and-greet arranged by Nikki's agent, Dylan and his buddies set off for New York City with hopes of fulfilling his one last wish.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: Holly Golightly, a charming, eccentric New York City playgirl, is determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire until she meets her new next-door neighbor, a gigolo and struggling writer ; Funny face: a fashion photographer pulls a shy Greenwich Village bookstore clerk from obscurity to become a model in Paris -- My fair lady: A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady -- Paris when it sizzles:...
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Perfect man: Holly Hamilton is on a mission to find her single mom a perfect man ... even if she has to make the man up. One crazy mishap after another leads the two of them to discover that sometimes what you want is right in front of you.
Head over heels: Ordinary single girl Amanda unexpectedly finds herself sharing an awesome Manhattan apartment with four sexy supermodels. Life gets even better when Amanda connects with next-door charmer, Jim....
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A princess on an official visit to Rome slips away without notice and falls in love with a newspaperman; a screenwriter has a deadline and no script until his secretary comes to the rescue by acting out a series of preposterous plotlines; after a stint in Paris, a chauffeur's daughter transforms from a shy, awkward girl into a graceful woman, capturing the attention of a wealthy family's sons; Holly Golightly, a charming, eccentric New York City playgirl,...
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