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Such is the pathos of the Manhattan Front Row Girls (FRGs) depicted in British fashionista turned novelist Plum Syke’s new novel Bergdorf Blondes, to be released in April by Miramax Books. The light-hearted, designer label-laden novel is latest of the “chick-lit” fiction craze that has spawned a plethora of unlikely pop heroines from Bridget Jones to Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones...
...British predecessors of Nicky and Paris Hilton with their ‘famous for being famous’ personae and the way they Jimmy Chooed their way through Manhattan’s cliquish fashion doors. Sykes is a contributing editor at Vogue, and an excerpt from Bergdorf Blondes, which is rumored to be loosely autobiographical, appears as a cover story in the March issue...
...even New York in all its Botox-injected glory doesn’t prove to be the panacea for the ambitiously materialistic young woman. The reality of the oxygen facial is that other women are getting them too. In other words, women become Bergdorf blondes to compete with others of the same species instead of proving themselves as unique individuals...
Sykes heralds Caroline Bessette Kennedy as the prototypical Bergdorf blonde. The late Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., had her white-blonde touch ups at Bergdorf’s Parvene salon every thirteen days at $450 per highlight. To Sykes this ritual was extraordinary, but neither compulsive nor neurotic. “It’s part of being, like, the ultimate New York girl,” Sykes wrote in her proposal for the novel...
...author’s stories have some highlights of their own. The superficiality of the Bergdorf blondes is most aptly depicted in a scene at a book club meeting when one Bergdorf blonde musters up the courage to ask “You know that book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius? Do you know if Dave Eggers, the author, is, like, single still...