Isabella, a young girl from Paris, lives with her mother, a seamstress who works in a fashion house. After her mother loses her job and they are evicted from their home, they move in with her aunt, Amy, who lives in a mansion. However, Amy turns out to be manipulative and takes advantage of Isabella's mother, making them do chores and forcing her mother to sew clothes for free.
Isabella starts at a new school, where she faces bullying from her cousin Tania and her friends. However, she also meets Josh, a handsome and kind boy who becomes her friend and confidant. As they spend more time together, Isabella learns that Josh's mother is a designer and that his family has a business relationship with Aunt Amy.
Isabella and Josh grow closer, and he helps her to develop her fashion skills and encourages her to apply to a prestigious fashion college. Meanwhile, Aunt Amy's true nature is revealed, and Isabella discovers that she has been stealing her designs and selling them as her own.
With Josh's help, Isabella exposes Aunt Amy's deceit and gets accepted into the fashion college. She graduates with flying colors, becomes one of the best fashion designers in her country, and eventually marries Josh. Throughout her journey, Isabella remains grateful to her mother, who has been her inspiration and support throughout her life.
1. The narrator, Isabella, lives in Paris.
2. Isabella's mother is a seamstress who works in a fashion house.
3. Isabella's mother often takes her to work with her.
4. The fashion house where Isabella's mother works asks all its workers to leave.
5. Isabella and her mother receive an eviction notice from their landlord.
6. Isabella's mother asks her husband for help, and they move in with her sister, Aunt Amy.
7. Aunt Amy lives in a huge mansion and offers to let them stay with her.
8. Isabella's mother and Aunt Amy do not get along.
9. Isabella's mother pays for her to attend a good school.
10. Isabella meets a girl named Tania, who is Aunt Amy's daughter and Isabella's half-sister.
11. Tania and her friends are mean to Isabella at school.
12. Isabella finds a thrift store and buys a vintage dress that she alters to make it her own.
13. Isabella meets a boy named Josh, who is the son of Aunt Amy's rich friend.
14. Josh is trying to get into a good fashion college.
15. Isabella and Josh become friends, and he helps her with her fashion designs.
16. Josh's mother is a designer, and she and Aunt Amy have a business together.
17. Isabella and Josh go on a date, and they kiss.
18. Isabella receives an interview letter from a university.
19. Tania burns Isabella's sketchbook, which contains her fashion designs.
20. Isabella's mother stands up to Aunt Amy and defends Isabella.
21. Isabella and her mother leave Aunt Amy's house.
22. Josh and his mother reveal that Aunt Amy has been selling Isabella's designs as her own.
23. Josh's mother cuts off business ties with Aunt Amy and hires Isabella's mother.
24. Aunt Amy is in debt and has to sell her house.
25. Isabella enters fashion design school with Josh.
26. Isabella graduates from fashion design school and becomes a successful fashion designer.
27. Isabella marries Josh when she is 25.
28. Isabella's work is exhibited at Paris Fashion Week.