Although I enjoyed this book, I felt it was essentially a tawdry tell-all masquerading as a more serious work. She does a fairly good job though of highlighting the massive changes that were taking place in high end fashion design during the "reigns" of Galliano and McQueen. I do wish that her preference for McQueen wasn't so obvious. I really feel it was an opinion (which I actually do share incidentally) presented as fact. I also found myself baffled by the inclusion of loving details of some collections and complete exclusion of others. FOr instance, if one wanted to make a point about the excesses of McQueen's shows, why would you leave out ones where, for instance, the model comes out walking a wolf? There were strange oversights like that which made the book seem less comprehensive than it purported to be.