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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Pick of the Week: "My Gucci Addiction" by Buzz Bissinger

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Pick of the Week

My Gucci Addiction

How the author of Friday Night Lights came to spend more than half a million dollars on designer clothes.

In the past few years, I've bought eighty-one leather jackets. Dozens of boots and leather gloves. I've purchased pants that cost $5,000. I own a $22,000 coat. This winter I took a tour of Milan's Fashion Week (all expenses paid by Gucci, in appreciation of my many, many purchases), where I spent tens of thousands more and began to seriously grapple, once and for all, with a compulsion that could cost me more than just my life savings. My name is Buzz Bissinger. I am 58 years old, the best-selling author of 'Friday Night Lights,' father of three, husband. And I am a shopaholic. [...]


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