num_pages: 564
description: Alix Gower has a dream: to join the ranks of Coco Chanel to become a designer in the high-stakes world of Parisian haute couture. But Alix also has a secret: she supports her family by stealing designs to create bootlegs for the foreign market. A hidden sketchbook and two minutes inside Herms is all she needs to create a perfect replica to be whisked off to production in New York.Then Alix is given her big break  a chance to finally realize her dream in one of the most prominent Parisian fashion houses  but at the price of copying the breakthrough Spring Collection.Knowing this could be her only opportunity Alix accepts the arrangement. But when a mystery from her past resurfaces and a chance meeting has her falling into the arms of a handsome English war reporter Alix learns that the slightest misstep  or misplaced trust  could be all it takes for her life to begin falling apart at the seams.
language: English
title: The Dress Thief
publisher: Quercus Books