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Very Important People : Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears quiz nearly everything we consume isPlease note this book is currently out of stock. 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