Cover art for A Boy and his Bear
Published
Hardie Grant, October 2022
ISBN
9781743798959
Format
Softcover, 392 pages
Dimensions
23.4cm × 15.3cm

A Boy and his Bear

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In this raw and hilarious memoir, a boy of humble beginnings in working-class Melbourne goes from dressing up his teddy to designing for Melbourne's high society. Gregory Ladner lifts the lid on a world of gorgeous women, glamourous gowns and salacious secrets. It's a rags-to-riches story - without the rags!

A Boy and His Beartracks Ladner's career as an Australian couturier, an international designer working in Hong Kong, and a creator of a hugely successful fashion accessory company. Beneath the glitz, it is also a highly entertaining mosaic of intimate and shocking confessions, both sensitive and brutal - a story of love, loss and social taboos in a society laced with contradictions.

Revealing in more ways than one, and illustrated by the author's own exquisite pen drawings, the colourful retrospective is a vivid, no-holds-barred reflection of a bygone era.

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