Absolutely Flabulous — Ebook

Brie has done this year's look to the limit, every inch of it, and the man who decides what the whole feed wants next takes one glance and tells her tattoos are over. The new trend is chubby. Nobody knows yet. Nobody in the entire world, except Lucius, his staff, and now her.

For fifteen seconds she is the most important influencer alive. She goes live from an alley, between a rat and a drip, and whispers the word. By morning a city is pouring protein powder down the sink, the nation's favorite television doctor has been set to music for begging people not to do this to themselves, and a matte cream canister called Rotundol is selling out in salted caramel, birthday cake and bone marrow. Every warning is an advertisement. Every advertisement is free.

Brie rides it up. Brands that never answered her emails send flowers. Then a man in boots with real dirt on them walks into a coffee shop, orders a regular cappuccino with nothing on top, and looks at her like she is the best thing he has seen all week. There isn't a logo on him anywhere. He couldn't name the trend if you handed him the whiteboard. By every rule she lives by he is nobody, and her heart has no budget for him.

Meanwhile her oldest friend, who takes up space like she was issued it and has not changed a single thing, has become the woman the whole street stops to photograph. The world simply moved to her. How do you catch up to that? You can't buy it by Thursday.

Everyone in this book knows the trend is nonsense. Count how many of them buy it anyway. Then go and look in your own closet.