Influence

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Ashley Olsen, designer, entrepreneur, actress and style icon, is one of the most influential young women in the fashion and entertainment industries. In a nutshell, each chapter is an interview the twins conducted with their fashion heroes, or people somehow related to the fashion industry: producers, models, journalists, designers, artists, and so on.

Twin sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (of Full House fame) interviewed people in the art and fashion world who have influenced and inspired them in their own artistic and fashion endeavors.

Anyway, the book is an uber-paean to materialism with some Plato and Walt Whitman thrown in once in awhile to give things a pseudo philosophical justification. It was also interesting to understand how these people and their accomplishments inspired Mary-Kate and Ashley. How very clever- there's about a couple of pages of them writing about them, many photos, and the rest are interviews with the artists and designers they admire and are inspired by. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

There's a pretty heavy-handedness to Mary Kate's love of Warholian culture just in terms of who she interviews and the questions involved.The only thing which was a bit of disappointment are the interview skills and techniques of the Olsens'.