The Fashion Orphans (English Edition)

Two estranged sisters find that forgiveness never goes out of style when they inherit their mothers vintage jackets, purses and pearls of wisdom Estranged half-sisters Gabrielle Winslow and Lulu Quattro have only two things in common: mounds of debt and coils of unresolved enmity toward Bette Bradford, their controlling and imperious recently deceased mother. Gabrielle, the firstborn, was raised in relative luxury on Manhattans rarefied Upper East Side. Now, at fifty-five, her life as a Broadway costume designer married to a heralded Broadway producer has exploded in divorce. Lulu, who spent half her childhood under the tutelage of her working-class Brooklyn grandparents, is a grieving widow at forty-eight. With her two sons grown, her life feels reduced to her work at the Ditmas Park bakery owned by her late husbands family. The two sisters arrive for the reading of their mothers will, expecting to divide a sizable inheritance, pay off their debts, and then again turn their backs on each other. But to their shock, what they have been left is their mothers secret walk-in closet jammed with high-end current and vintage designer clothes and accessories most from Chanel. Contemplating the scale of their mothers self-indulgence, the sisters cant help but wonder if Lauren Weisberger had it wrong: because it seems, in fact, that the devil wore Chanel. But as they being to explore their mothers collection, meet and fall in love with her group of warm, wonderful friends, and magically find inspiring messages tucked away in her treasures it seems as though their mother is advising Lulu and Gabrielle from the beyond helping them rediscover themselves and restore their relationship with each other.