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Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
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Hal Vaughan
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Justine Picardie · 344 pages
Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland
Amanda Mackenzie Stuart · 419 pages
This rare glimpse into the life of the innovative fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue who, redefining women's sense of beauty and style, launched the careers of such timeless beauties as Lauren Bacall and Lauren Hutton, explores her originality, her tenacity and her inimitable sensibility.
Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow. Detmar Blow with Tom Sykes
Detmar Blow, Tom Sykes · 312 pages
"Isabella Blow was the epitome of English eccentricity. A legendary figure in the fashion world, she nurtured and championed the talent of some of fashion's most recognisable and important figures, all the time hiding her own personal unhappiness and severe depression. The news of her tragic death in 2007, aged 48, shocked the international fashion world. Her thirty year career in fashion began as
Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Vicki Goldberg, Nan Richardson · 180 pages
This lavish book is the first-ever retrospective on Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989), one of the great fashion photographers of her era. In addition to fashion images, the 140 photos collected here include a sampling of Dahl-Wolfe's portrait work--unforgettable images of Josephine Baker, Edward Hopper, Eudora Welty, and Jean Cocteau, among other luminaries. 140 illustrations. 100 in full color.
How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, Sophie Mas · 272 pages
The Audrey Hepburn Treasures
Ellen Erwin, Jessica Z. Diamond · 192 pages
A scrapbook-style souvenir album of Hepburn interviews, photos, and replicated memorabilia includes pieces from the late actress's estate and is complemented by removable elements and anecdotes by friends and family members.
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
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.
Lessons From Madame Chic: The Top 20 Things I Learned While Living in Paris
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.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Andrew Bolton, Harold Koda · 240 pages
StyLIZed: Liz Uy's Ten Style Essentials
Liz Uy, Vicky Montenegro
Parisian Chic: A Style Guide
Ines de La Fressange · 242 pages
Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation
Judith Mackrell · 488 pages
The forefront British dance critic and award-nominated author of Bloomsbury Ballerina presents a revisionist assessment of the movement that shattered the boundaries of conventional femininity through the lives of six figures that exemplified it, including Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka. Glamorised, mythologised and dem
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
Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World's Most Coveted Handbag
Michael Tonello · 272 pages
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