WILDCHILDS: A Novel by Eugenia Melian

WILDCHILDS: A Novel -- the fiction debut from former model and agent Eugenia Melian which is set for release on September 20, 2018 -- coinciding with Fashion Week in NYC, Paris, London, and Milan, and sure to be one of the season's most buzzed-about new books.

A work of fiction based on the truth, the photograph that features on the cover of WILDCHILDS was shot by Ethan James Green (known for recent campaigns with the likes of Adidas Originals and Alexander McQueen) and designed by Shawn Stussy. Author of The Price of Illusion and legendary former editor-in-chief of French Vogue Joan Juliet Buck has blurbed an advance copy of the novel, writing:

"If fashion photographs could talk, and felt like telling the truth, you'd have WILDCHILDS -- an accomplished and compelling first novel by a true insider. Only Eugenia Melian knows every side of that world of beauty, sex, greed, and lies, starting as a model, becoming a leading photographer's agent and a force in Paris fashion and culture of the eighties, nineties and two thousands. With cool passion and great suspense, she denounces the cowardice of those men who manipulate the most beautiful women in the world. Melian tells the story of Iris, the daughter of a famous magazine editor exiled to New York, who becomes a model in Paris and falls into love and peril. Melian's descriptions of the steamy rise of sexual attraction on a fashion shoot are matched only by her exquisite, enchanted descriptions of a dark and secret Paris unknown to visitors."

Since the early 1980s, Eugenia Melian has worked as a model, agent, producer, and music supervisor in Milan, Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles. She has discovered, managed, art directed and produced some of the most talented artists of our time, with career highlights that include launching the careers of iconic photographers Tony Viramontes and David LaChapelle, and co-producing Malcolm McLaren’s cult album Paris. Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Hardy, LouLou de la Falaise, Sonya Rykiel, Rocco Siffredi, Helmut Newton, David Bailey, Faye Dunaway, Marlon Brando, Prince, Tilda Swinton, Guerlain, Vogue, Daft Punk, Blur, Stella McCartney, Janet Jackson and The Face are among the long list of luminaries and brands she has collaborated on projects with and represented. Eugenia currently lives in northern California, and in September 2018 will release her debut novel WILDCHILDS.

Eugenia Melian can be found online on Instagram, her blog and at www.EugeniaMelian.com.

WILDCHILDS will be available in paperback and e-book formats on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever books are sold as of September 20, 2018.