When fashion boutique worker Amber Green is mistakenly offered a job as assistant to infamous, jet-setting "stylist to the stars" Mona Armstrong, she hits the ground running, helping to style some of Hollywood's hottest (and craziest) starlets. As awards season spins into action, Mona is in hot demand, and Amber's life is turned upside down. Suddenly she's caught the attention of two very different suitors, a TV producer, Rob, and a bad-boy Hollywood...

"Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim's repertoire, she has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women off the street. She has helped many find their true selves through clothes, frank advice, and her own brand of wisdom. She is trusted by the most discriminating persons--including...

An influential creative director of American "Vogue" magazine traces her decades in the fashion industry, recounting her early years as a model under the tutelage of Norman Parkinson, unexpected rise to fame, and associations with numerous fashion luminaries.

"Christine Schwab has lived a life of Hollywood and New York glamour most people can only dream about. For twenty years she appeared as a fashion and beauty reporter on the nation's leading television shows...But for most of those years, she was hiding a devastating illness that threatened to take over her entire life...In 'Take Me Home from the Oscars', Schwab tells for the first time her story of living an amazing life in television while suffering...