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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorGay Men Don't Get Fat
Simon Doonan · 254 pages
A humorous guide to looking and feeling fabulous draws on the author's expertise as a style icon and creative ambassador, in a text that also shares insider tips and offbeat personal anecdotes.
In My Shoes: A Memoir
Tamara Mellon · 275 pages
"When Tamara Mellon's father lent her the seed money to start a high-end shoe company, he cautioned her: "Don't let the accountants run your business." Little did he know. Over the next fifteen years, the struggle between "financial" and "creative" would become one of the central themes as Mellon's business savvy, creative eye, and flair for design built Jimmy Choo into a premier name in the compe
Through Thick and Thin: My Autobiography
Gok Wan · 360 pages
**Autobiography, Fashion:** With his infectious energy and charisma, **Gok Wan has an incredible gift of making women feel more confident within themselves** - but it's not until you read his own inspirational story that you find out where he got that gift from. Gok grew up on a Leicester housing estate, with a loving family who ran a Chinese restaurant. For his parents, food meant love - and
Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun · 272 pages
Normal Gets You Nowhere
Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan · 180 pages
Creates a new set of commandments for the modern world by demonstrating how women can "deprogram" themselves from what they are supposed to want from life so that they can go after what they really want.
Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler: A True Love Story Rediscovered
Trudi Kanter · 257 pages
"Vienna, 1938: Trudi Miller, young, beautiful and chic, designs hats for the smartest women in the city. She is falling in love with Walter, a charming and charismatic businessman. But their idyll is about to end. Trudiand Walter are Jewish, and as Hitler's tanks roll into Austria, Trudi immediately realises they have to flee. [This book] is [a ...] true story that moves from Vienna to Prague to b
The Clothing of Books
Jhumpa Lahiri · 80 pages
When I was a child, expressing myself through clothing was a source of anguish. I dreamt of sameness, even invisibility... When my books were first published, I discovered that another part of me had to be dressed and presented to the world.
Couture Sewing Techniques
Claire B. Shaeffer · 250 pages
"The world of haute couture is a place where only a privileged few can ever hope to reside, right? Wrong. Fashion historian Claire B. Shaeffer opened the door to this exclusive realm in her authoritative guide to the techniques that define couture sewing. And now, the industry bible, Couture Sewing Techniques, has been revised and updated throughout -- with new photos and a chapter on specialty fa
How to Get Dressed: A Costume Designer's Secrets for Making Your Clothes Look, Fit, and Feel Amazing
Alison Freer · 241 pages
"An ingenious book of simple wardrobe solutions, clever tools, and straightforward advice from a Hollywood costume designer. A costume designer's styling kit is a magical bag of tricks, built to solve every single wardrobe malfunction on earth. TV and film productions wait for nothing, so a costume designer's solutions have to work--and work fast. How to Get Dressed is a fun, empowering style guid
Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them
Jillian Venters · 236 pages
An essential, fully illustrated guidebook to day-to-day Goth livingThere's more to being a Goth than throwing on some black velvet, dyeing your hair, and calling it a day (or a night). How do you dress with morbid flair when going to a job interview? Is there such a thing as growing too old to be a Goth? How do you explain to your grandma that it's not just a phase?Jillian Venters, a.k.a. "the Lad
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
Ayana Byrd, Lori L. Tharps · 208 pages
Workin' It! Rupaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style
RuPaul · 172 pages
The popular drag queen and host of "RuPaul's Drag Race" provides provocative tips on fashion, beauty, style and confidence for women and men, gay and straight.
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
Simon Garfield · 232 pages
Explains how English chemist William Perkin accidentally discovered a way to mass-produce color in a factory in 1856, and discusses how his discovery of the color mauve changed the fashion industry.
Everything About Me Is Fake... and I'm Perfect
Janice Dickinson · 290 pages
In this challenging and enlightening companion volume to the bestselling Goddesses in Everywoman, Jean Shinoda Bolen turns her attention to the powerful inner patterns--or archetypes--that shape men's personalities, careers, and personal relationships. Viewing these archtypes as the inner counterparts of the outer world of cultural stereotypes, she demonstrates how men an women can gain an nvaluab
Geisha, a Life
Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown · 297 pages
"Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. For the next twenty-five years, she would live a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and rich rewards. She would learn the formal customs and language of the geisha and study the ancient arts of Japanese dance and music. S
The Truth About Style
Stacy London
"The hilarious, beloved cohost of TLC's What Not to Wear examines the universal obstacles all women--including herself--put in their way With her unique talent for seeing past disastrous wardrobes to the core emotional issues that caused these sartorial crises, style savant Stacy London has transformed not only the looks but also the lives of hundreds of guests who have appeared on What Not to W
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
Chandler Burr · 336 pages
No journalist has ever been allowed into the ultrasecretive, highly pressured process of originating a perfume. But Chandler Burr, the New York Times perfume critic, spent a year behind the scenes observing the creation of two major fragrances. Now, writing with wit and elegance, he juxtaposes the stories of the perfumes--one created by a Frenchman in Paris for an exclusive luxury-goods house, the
A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like
Ashley Graham, Rebecca Paley · 198 pages
"One of the most outspoken voices gracing the cover of magazines today encourages women to be their most confident selves, recognize their personal beauty, and reach for their highest dreams in this wise, warm, and inspiring memoir. Voluptuous beauty Ashley Graham has been modeling professionally since the age of thirteen. Discovered at a shopping mall in Nebraska, her stunning face and sexy curve
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights
Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You
Jennifer Baumgartner
Most every woman has found herself with a closet full of too many clothes or surrounded by brand-new items that somehow never get worn. Instead she gets stuck wearing the same few familiar pieces from a wardrobe that just doesn't feel "right." Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner argues that all those things are actually manifestations of deeper life issues. What if you could understand your appearance as a r