The Fashion Designer

For everyone interested in haute couture and fashion history

Katja Maybach herself worked for a long time as a fashion designer and a lot of personal experience has flowed into the novel

Total sales of Katja Maybach: 250,000 copies

Famous fashion designer Simonetta de Rosa and her team are working to the point of exhaustion on the new collection that is to be presented in the autumn of 1961 at a glamorous show. But once there, she receives two messages that question everything that she has built up: her sister, with whom she has had no contact for years, appears to be having an affair with the man that Simonetta loves. And an American fashion house has got hold of two of her strictly secret designs. Who from her team, which she considers to be family, has betrayed her like this? And to whom does her heart really belong?

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  • Publisher: Knaur TB
  • Release: 01.07.2020
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-52510-4
  • 304 Pages
  • Author: Katja Maybach
The Fashion Designer
Katja Maybach The Fashion Designer
Simone Hofmann
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Katja Maybach

Katja Maybach wrote her first novel and several short stories at the age of twelve. But she has always had a second passion for fashion. And so she won the designer prize of a big German women’s magazine for the design of an evening dress at the age of fifteen. She went to Paris at seventeen and first became a model in a Couture house, later a successful designer. Following a serious illness, she began writing successful novels. Her debut novel “Eine Nacht im November” was a great success and became a bestseller in France. The author now lives in Munich and has two grown-up children.