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The Thoughtful Dresser

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Women in Clothes

Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton · 521 pages

"An exploration of the questions we ask ourselves while getting dressed every day, and the answers from more than six hundred women"--From back cover.

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Man Repeller

Leandra Medine · 242 pages

"The Man Repeller" is a humorous weblog founded by the author, about fashion. The essays herein are derived from the stories and anecdotes found on the blog.

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How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, Sophie Mas · 272 pages

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The Woman I Wanted to Be

Diane Von Furstenberg · 239 pages

"Von Furstenberg reflects on her extraordinary life from childhood in Brussels to her days as a young, jet-set princess, to creating the dress that came to symbolize independence and power for an entire generation of women, ... [mining] the rich territory of what it means to be a woman. She opens up about her family and career, overcoming cancer, building a global brand, and devoting herself to em

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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish

Linda Przybyszewski · 373 pages

"As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and flatteringly. As historian and expert dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals in

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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

Sam Wasson · 260 pages

A closeup examination of Blake Edwards' classic film, Breakfast at Tiffany's, winner of two Oscars.

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Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Victoria Finlay · 448 pages

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Lauren Conrad Style

Lauren Conrad, Elise Loehnen

Lifestyle and fashion icon Lauren Conrad, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lauren Conrad Celebrate and Lauren Conrad Beauty, lets fans step into her enviable closet in this must-read guide on finding the perfect style. Filled with an inspiring array of fashion tips and personal stories, and lavishly illustrated with dozens of color photographs throughout, Lauren Conrad Style is the p

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Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Justine Picardie · 344 pages

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Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese

Dita Von Teese, Bronwyn Garrity · 272 pages

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Elegance

Genevieve Antoine Dariaux · 285 pages

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Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me

Patricia Volk · 293 pages

From the acclaimed author of Stuffed: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir that juxtaposes two fascinating lives -- the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author's own mother, Audrey Morgen Volk, an upper-middle-class New Yorker -- to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman.

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StyLIZed: Liz Uy's Ten Style Essentials

Liz Uy, Vicky Montenegro

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FRUiTS

Shoichi Aoki · 304 pages

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Coco Chanel A biography

Axel Madsen · 394 pages

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Gothic and Lolita

Masayuki Yoshinaga, Katsuhiko Ishikawa · 272 pages

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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern

Joshua Zeitz · 345 pages

Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Her newfound freedom heralded a radical change in American

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My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

Kate Betts · 233 pages

"For readers of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are, My Paris Dream is a charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper's Bazaar editor Kate Betts, the author of Everyday Icon : Michelle Obama and the Power of Style"-- "As a young woman Kate Betts nursed a dream of striking out on her own and discovering who she was meant to b

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What you wear can change your life

Trinny Woodall, Susannah Constantine · 297 pages

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