TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mears,Ashley
TI  - Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit 
SN  - 9780691168654
AV  - HQ798 .M447 2021
U1  - 305.242/2 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Businessmen
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Rich people
KW  - Social status
KW  - Socialites
KW  - Subculture
KW  - Young women
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - DJ
KW  - DJs
KW  - Primates of Park Avenue
KW  - Rich Kids Instagram
KW  - Theory of the Leisure Class
KW  - Thorstein Veblen
KW  - VIP area
KW  - VIP lifestyle
KW  - Wednesday Martin
KW  - anthropology
KW  - banker bros
KW  - bouncers
KW  - business men
KW  - club promoter
KW  - club promoters
KW  - club scene
KW  - conspicuous consumption
KW  - girl capital
KW  - inequality
KW  - sexism
KW  - sexual exploitation
KW  - sexual trafficking
KW  - super rich
KW  - toxic masculinity
KW  - trafficking women
KW  - urban nightlife
KW  - velvet rope
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; PROLOGUE --; 1. We Are the Cool People --; 2. Daytime --; 3. The Potlatch --; 4. Trafficking at Model Camp --; 5. Who Runs the Girls? --; 6. Started from the Bottom --; 7. Closure --; RESEARCH APPENDIX --; NOTES --; REFERENCES --; INDEX --; A NOTE ON THE TYPE; restricted access
N2  - A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today's New Gilded Age, the world's moneyed classes have taken conspicuous consumption to new extremes. In Very Important People, sociologist, author, and former fashion model Ashley Mears takes readers inside the exclusive global nightclub and party circuit—from New York City and the Hamptons to Miami and Saint-Tropez—to reveal the intricate economy of beauty, status, and money that lies behind these spectacular displays of wealth and leisure.Mears spent eighteen months in this world of "models and bottles" to write this captivating, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking narrative. She describes how clubs and restaurants pay promoters to recruit beautiful young women to their venues in order to attract men and get them to spend huge sums in the ritual of bottle service. These "girls" enhance the status of the men and enrich club owners, exchanging their bodily capital for as little as free drinks and a chance to party with men who are rich or aspire to be. Though they are priceless assets in the party circuit, these women are regarded as worthless as long-term relationship prospects, and their bodies are constantly assessed against men's money.A story of extreme gender inequality in a seductive world, Very Important People unveils troubling realities behind moneyed leisure in an age of record economic disparity
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691189895?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691189895
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691189895/original
ER  -