Girlboss Netflix Sophia Amoruso

S ophia Amoruso wants to get something straight about the term “Girlboss”. “It’s about choosing for ourselves what success looks like, ” she explains. “I don’t want to equate it with the word feminism.”

Granted, it’s her phrase and, accordingly, should be hers to define. In 2014, Amoruso published #Girlboss, a self-help book-slash-memoir about the launch of her fashion brand Nasty Gal. Nasty Gal was an eBay store that became an e-commerce beast, selling clothes inspired by celebrities including the Olsen twins, Sienna Miller and Kate Moss, and pulling in revenues of almost $28m in 2011. The New York Times dubbed Amoruso a “Cinderella of tech”; she appeared on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and was named one of its richest self-made women. Then, in November 2016, she filed for bankruptcy. “It was a very slow face plant, ” she says, drily.

Now the story has resurged via Netflix, which has fictionalised #Girlboss in a series of the same name (minus the hashtag). The first season covers the genesis of Nasty Gal. Its protagonist – based loosely on a 23-year old Amoruso – is unlikable and entitled: in the pilot, she gets sacked from her job in a shoe shop after eating her boss’s lunch. She is, predictably, a hot mess, and the opening scene has the usual visual and sonic tells of the bad girl: Suzi Quatro on the stereo, a car key with a disembodied Barbie head keyring. Naturally, fictional Amoruso is wearing a vest, jean shorts and knee-high boots. Watching things unfold, you get the feeling that this isn’t a protagonist whom the audience is supposed to side with entirely; by way of explanation (and perhaps defence) Britt Roberston, who plays her, has said that the character “can’t make her way in life because nobody understands her story or gets who she is”.

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Watching a fictionalised version of her life, Amoruso says, “was “crazy”. How did she feel about how she was characterised? “It portrays a 23-year-old, ” she says firmly. “There are things that are a lot like me at that age, and things that are exaggerated. It was never the task to recreate me.” She hopes the series will make people laugh, though presumably, for her, it is discomfiting viewing. “One part that really gets me is episode 13. We’ve just launched the website and we’re having the party. The camera pans in on my character and you see that she’s alone. That’s a feeling that I’ve experienced a lot. When you are the founder, you’re not everyone’s friend. You’re not a peer.”

The series has sparked a testy conversation around Amoruso, and how her stories (real and fictionalised) represent modern feminism. This puts her in quite a strange position, given that she says she is a feminist but that the book is

A feminist manual. It’s a curious distinction. #Girlboss has always been aligned – especially on social media – with go-getting, 1% feminism; her book has even been described, by the Washington Post, as a “Lean In for misfits”. “Girlboss is not a literal term, ” she insists. “It could mean being a stay-at-home-mom.”

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For Amoruso, being a girlboss often meant going it alone – she touches on the idea of separation several times. I wonder whether she could be alluding to the much-publicised rifts she had with her employees. In 2015, Nasty Gal was sued for allegedly firing four pregnant women and a man about to take paternity leave. However, when pressed on the subject , she remains quiet and never references the cases (which were settled out of court). Did she enjoy running her own company? “It all happened very quickly, ” she says. “I think it takes a lifetime to become a good leader. When you found a company accidentally, you don’t think ‘This is what our culture’s going to be, this is the kind of leader I’m going to be’”. Amoruso jokes that she herself is unemployable. “I’m not good at doing what I’m told.”

She’s introspective when she considers what she would have done differently. “There’s so much I didn’t do for the first several years at Nasty Gal, and today I know how important those things are, ” she says. What would she say to her younger self? “Focus. You have to space out your ambitions – don’t try to do them all at once.”This site uses cookies. Select Block all non-essential cookies to only allow cookies necessary to display content and enable core site features. Select Accept all cookies to also personalize your experience on the site with ads and partner content tailored to your interests, and to allow us to measure the effectiveness of our service.

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Begins with the following disclaimer: “What follows is a loose retelling of true events... Real loose.” That constant reminder is a crucial one: The show may be based on

Bestseller written by Nasty Gal’s founder and former CEO Sophia Amoruso, but it’s as stylized and surreal as the six-inch platform boots and lamé jumpsuits Nasty Gal stocks.

Nasty Gal has been plagued with problems. First came the allegations that Amoruso had shifted her efforts from the fashion company she built to promoting her best-selling memoir (and herself); former employees began leaving scathing reviews on Glassdoor. Then, in September 2014, the layoffs (and lawsuits) started.

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Amoruso stepped down as CEO of Nasty Gal in January 2015, funding for the company slowed, and even more employees were laid off. By November 2016, Nasty Gal had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; UK retailer Boohoo acquired the company this past February. Of course, none of this is depicted in season 1 of

, which focuses on Sophia (played by Britt Robertson) as she gets her start “flipping clothes” on eBay and, later, launches her own website. Should

Get renewed for further seasons, it’ll be fascinating to see how — if at all — the show portrays Nasty Gal’s downfall.

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Paints a fairly flattering picture of Sophia overall. Brash and foulmouthed, the character is flawed — but the audience is clearly meant to root for her throughout, which sometimes feels problematic. Had Amoruso not been personally involved in the project, I wonder if the screenplay might’ve had a little more bite (for the better).

True. In her memoir, Amoruso notes with “zero pride” that she used to steal everything from rugs to books, so it makes sense that

True and true; and yes, she really did take the latter gig for the health insurance so she could have a hernia removed. But at the real-life Academy of Art University, I doubt Amoruso ever had a boss as delightful as Rick (Norm Macdonald), who steals every scene he’s in.

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Sophia with many costume pieces for the character, all [of which paid] homage to her look IRL, ” Fisher says. “Her grandmother’s Greek Orthodox silver cross, since Sophia wore that necklace proudly and often back in the day; dozens of brutalist and ‘70s vintage silver rings, as she always had an eclectic mix on each hand; the sleek denim jumpsuit; a turquoise baby cord bomber that I copied right from one of [Amoruso’s] Polaroids; the sexy red denim ‘70s jeans that Britt struts around in at the beginning of the show; a Victorian lace blouse that mirrored a similar piece in Sophia’s closet; a rhinestone-encrusted denim shirt inspired by a recent Instagram of [Amoruso] — those are a few of my favorite examples.”

The first item Sophia ever sold on eBay was a vintage leather jacket she bought for nine dollars and sold for over $600.

False. According to her book and multiple interviews she’s given over the years, the first item Amoruso actually sold on eBay was a stolen book (although, to be fair, Sophia does shoplift a copy of

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“That scene was written very specifically, and as I understood, it is a fictionalized version of one of Sophia [Amoruso]’s experiences, ” Fisher says, noting that show creator Kay Cannon’s script called for an East West moto jacket. “In order to honor her vision, I went on a quest. I checked with all the vendors in town who deal in ‘70s leathers, turned to eBay, and finally found that metallic beauty at vintage dealer Brian Cohen’s exquisite atelier in Hollywood.” Fisher calls the jacket “the most significant costume of the show, ” as it “embodies both Sophia’s magic and moxie.”

Get to see Sophia uncover two Chanel jackets at a thrift store, buy them for $8 apiece, and sell them for over $1, 500, another prime bit from the book.

True. However, that DailyCandy writeup came in July 2008, after Amoruso had launched Nasty Gal’s website — not in June 2007, when she was still selling on eBay.

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Sophia once rushed from San Francisco to Marin County to deliver a vintage wedding dress to a

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