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"Fun addition to the Crimes of Fashion series."
Reviewed by Lory Martin
Posted July 10, 2004
Lacey Smithsonian, fashion reporter for Washington DC's Eye
Street Observer, dishes out advice for the fashion
clueless. When she wears a vintage suit to a Congressional
hearing on a new fashion museum, she's offered a mind-
boggling price for it by the suit's designer. Wondering why
the elderly designer's willing to Read more...
"Missing Persons and a Fashion Museum"
Reviewed by Dawn Dowdle
Posted August 10, 2004
Lacey Smithsonian is a fashion columnist. Her
column "Crimes of fashion" gives fashion advice to
unfashionable D.C. She didn't choose to be a fashion
columnist, it was chosen for her by her boss.
She learns that a new fashion museum will soon open in
D.C. Designer Hugh Bentley Read more...
"offbeat amusing "hate crime" tale"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 10, 2004
The column "Crimes of Fashion" of fashion reporter for the
Eye Street Observer Lacey Smithsonian Chase has more to do
with crime than fashion. She is at the capital building
covering a $40 million dollar appropriation to the
National Building Museum but the committee members do not
how that Read more...
SummaryWhen fashion columnist Lacey Smithsonian learns that a new
fashion museum will soon grace decidedly unfashionable
D.C., it's more than a good story—it's a chance to
show off her vintage Hugh Bentley suit. And it's not long
before the dapper designer himself spots Lacey in the
crowd. A reporter at heart, she manages to get all the
juicy details about his past—including a long-
unsolved mystery about a missing employee. Could it be
linked to the disappearance of a Washington intern or the
recent Bentley boutique robbery? Lacey sets out to unravel
the murderous details in a fabric of lies, greed—and
(gasp!) very bad taste...
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