THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ASTRID BRICARD
History said she was just a man’s muse. History was wrong
New York, 1970: Everyone remembers her daringly short, silver lamé dress. It’s an iconic photograph capturing an electric moment, when emerging American designer Astrid Bricard is young, uninhibited, and on the cusp of fashion and feminism’s changing landscape. She and fellow designer Hawk Jones are all over Vogue magazine and New York City’s disco scene. Yet she can’t escape the shadow of her mother, Mizza Bricard, infamous “muse” for Christian Dior. Astrid would give anything to take her place among the great houses of couture–on her own terms.
But then Astrid disappeared …
Now Astrid’s daughter, Blythe, holds what remains of her mother and grandmother’s legacies. Of all the Bricard women, she can gather the torn, painfully beautiful fabrics of three generations of heartbreak to create something that will shake the foundations of fashion. The only piece missing is the one question no one’s been able to answer: What really happened to Astrid?
“Vogue meets Daisy Jones & The Six, as three generations of women carve their mark in the world of fashion . . . with incisive observations about women's roles as muse and inspiration - and what price they pay when they dare to create for themselves.”
— KATE QUINN, New York Times best-selling author of The Diamond Eye
“This book is brave, bold, and beautiful …”
— KERRI MAHER author of The Paris Bookseller
“Natasha Lester dazzles in her latest novel …”
— MARIE BENEDICT New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room