by Cross Woodfield

I guess you can’t really call this a book review because I haven’t read the book because it hasn’t been released yet.

It’s more like a book PRE-view.

On October 28, I don’t know what y’all will be doing, but I will be voraciously yet exactingly savouring my first look at Influence by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, the coffee table bible of our generations’ fashion trends.

Now I am the first to admit that as far as acting skills reach, the twins are no Meryl.  But they are (in my opinion) unquestionable fashion icons and risk-lovers when it comes to style.

So this book sounds pretty fab:  according to Penguin, the book’s publisher, it will feature “exclusive photographs of Ashley and Mary-Kate from world renowned photographer Rankin, and a wide variety of other never-before-seen materials and interviews from Mary-Kate and Ashley’s personal collections.

I’m not trying to get my hopes up or anything, but it seems to me the girls would have to try awfully hard to make anything anything that’s constructed of Diane Von Firstenburg and Karl Lagerfeld interviews, and pictures of Marianne Faithfull and Twiggy, mediocre.

I think it’s very mature, humble, and wise of the Olsen twins to use their power for good: knowing that millions of girls worldwide will listen to whatever they say, they’ve decided to teach us about those who came before them.

What do y’all think of the Olsen twins?

I must admit they’re my total guilty pleasure…them and blackberry cobbler.

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