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Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
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This book felt more like a critique than reporting the facts, like a fan writing a Reddit post in r/glossier.
Meltzer quotes a fan tweet like it’s a declarative statement from a reputable source and writes, “Kyle Leahy doesn’t seem very cool�. I think she’s trying to sound relatable in her writing but she just sounds unprofessional and dumb.
Throughout the entire book Meltzer separates Glossier’s success from Weiss’s success which doesn’t make any sense to me. She ends the second to last chapter with “Weiss is a complicated woman who is more admired than she is liked� as if she’s writing some sort of burn book about her and in the next chapter talks about the insane success of the new SoHo store that opened in fall 2023 saying, “name another decade-old company that has lines out the door every weekend�. The brand is Weiss therefore making the obvious success of the business hers, even if she isn’t CEO.
As a fan myself even I know that the timeline of this story is way off and I’ve read accounts from OG Glossier employees that there are a lot of factual errors.
The content of this book (Glossier’s story) was what kept me in it and pushed me to finish this book, the authors own narrative was god awful. What a disappointing book to come out of a decade long beauty brand that could have been really interesting.
Meltzer quotes a fan tweet like it’s a declarative statement from a reputable source and writes, “Kyle Leahy doesn’t seem very cool�. I think she’s trying to sound relatable in her writing but she just sounds unprofessional and dumb.
Throughout the entire book Meltzer separates Glossier’s success from Weiss’s success which doesn’t make any sense to me. She ends the second to last chapter with “Weiss is a complicated woman who is more admired than she is liked� as if she’s writing some sort of burn book about her and in the next chapter talks about the insane success of the new SoHo store that opened in fall 2023 saying, “name another decade-old company that has lines out the door every weekend�. The brand is Weiss therefore making the obvious success of the business hers, even if she isn’t CEO.
As a fan myself even I know that the timeline of this story is way off and I’ve read accounts from OG Glossier employees that there are a lot of factual errors.
The content of this book (Glossier’s story) was what kept me in it and pushed me to finish this book, the authors own narrative was god awful. What a disappointing book to come out of a decade long beauty brand that could have been really interesting.
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