Boston Book Festival

As a teenage supermodel, Cameron Russell learned how to please the fashion industry gatekeepers and power brokers to gain lucrative modeling gigs by compartmentalizing her own feelings about the exploitation she experienced and observed. In How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone, Russell describes the journey from acquiescence to opposition as she became an advocate for collective action and worker protections. With a clear-eyed view of her own complicity in an industry where the highest praise is “she’ll do anything,” Russell pulls no punches in this captivating look at fashion, power, and fighting back. Comedian, The Moth host, and former model Bethany Van Delft will host.