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Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World's Most Coveted Handbag
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Jennifer L. Scott · 246 pages
This is a book that helps women to build a clothing wardrobe that is stylish and timeless. The premise is this: with good planning you only need 10 basic pieces of clothing on which you can base your wardrobe.
Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent
Hal Vaughan
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
How to Murder Your Life
Cat Marnell · 379 pages
"From Cat Marnell, 'New York's enfant terrible' (The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America--and that's all most people knew about her. But she hid a secret
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris · 321 pages
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to
The Vogue Factor
Kirstie Clements · 224 pages
In May 2012 Kirstie Clements was unceremoniously sacked after thirteen years in the editor's chair at Vogue Australia. Here she tells the story behind the headlines, and takes us behind the scenes of a fast-changing industry. During a career at Vogue that spanned twenty-five years, Clements rubbed shoulders with Karl Lagerfeld, Kylie Minogue, Ian Thorpe, Crown Princess Mary, Cate Blanchett, and ma
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
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.
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
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s
Cornelia Otis Skinner, Emily Kimbrough · 247 pages
Two ingenues "do the Continent" pre-WWII. Skinner takes us from the innocence of youth in the 1920s to the dawn of WWII, replete with all the faux pas and fiascoes you would expect from youth taking Europe on their own in the early part of the twentieth century when innocence still existed and innuendo was unheard of. A great read.
How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, Sophie Mas · 272 pages
French Fried: one man's move to France with too many animals and an identity thief
Chris Dolley · 226 pages
A Town Like Paris: Living and Loving in the City of Light
Bryce Corbett
Fleeing London, in search of adventure and determined to sample some of the famed delights of the City of Light, our hero arrives in Paris with only a suitcase and a determination to have the time of his life. He launches himself into la vie parisienne, throws himself at the local female population and quickly discovers his down-home Aussie charm has no currency in France. Like the monotonous seri
The Bombshell Manual of Style
Laren Stover, Kimberly Forrest, Nicole Burdette, Randi Gollin · 208 pages
That Extra Half an Inch: Hair, Heels and Everything in Between
Victoria Beckham · 320 pages
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
David Lebovitz · 282 pages
Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood. But he soon discov
Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down
Rosecrans Baldwin · 304 pages
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
Almost French: A New Life In Paris
Sarah Turnbull · 320 pages
A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frederic together in Bucharest, and on impulse she decides to take him up on his offer to visit him in the world's most romantic city. Sacrificing Vegemite f
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