Through thick and thin
Subtitle: my autobiography
By: Gok Wan
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781445856230; 9781445856247
Subjects: Image consultants; Biography; Celebrities; Large type books
Description: Gok grew up on a Leicester housing estate, with a family who ran a Chinese restaurant. For his parents, food meant love - and Gok was so well loved that by the time he was a teenager he weighed 21 stone. Being Asian and gay as well, Gok felt lonely and out of place. He was an easy target for bullies and suffered terribly at their hands. In a moment of inspiration, he decided to reinvent himself with his first style makeover and a larger-than-life personality to go with it. His next move was to lose ten stone. Here, for the first time, Gok reveals all about that life-changing period. The lessons Gok learnt during this time helped him bounce back to become a stylist to the stars, every woman's best friend and a national treasure.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London : Ebury, 2010.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Food; title: 1. Where it all began; title: 2. The panda; title: 3. The Gok-arina years; title: 4. Cable-knit forcefield of fashion; title: 5. The Wan withi; title: 6. Fuck exams!; title: 7. A first taste of freedom; title: 8. Isolation; title: 9. Donovan versus Chapman; title: 10. London's calling; title: 11. Central; title: 12. Starvation; title: 13. Home again; title: 14. Deep-fried blues; title: 15. Lacroix meets the boy Wan-der; title: 16. Colourings in; title: 17. Midnight dash; title: 18. Platinum coffee table; title: 19. One of the IT crowd; title: 20. Agent X; title: 21. The label says it all; title: 22. Wrap-around ambition; title: 23. Naked; title: 24. Never ever ...; title: 25. The big time; title: 26. A new dawn; title: 27. Wooooaaah; title: Fashion!; title: 28. Dressing Mum; title: 29. The wake-up call; title: 30. Changing lives; title: 31. The view from here.