My Favourite Style / Fashion / Closet / Wardrobe Books Gift Guide

I have been asked this a number of times — what style and shopping books have I enjoyed reading?

Here is a pretty comprehensive list of what I have read over the past few years, broken down into categories that seem to make sense to me…

Enjoy!

Personal Style Guides

• Curated Closet – Comprehensive guide to finding your personal style
• Wardrobe Wakeup – Meant to be for women over 40 but I found it very useful
• The way she wears it: Guide to finding inner style
• Parisian Chic: Ines Fressange
• Parisian Chic Lookbook: Ines Fressange
• How to get dressed – All the style tips and tricks on taking care of your wardrobe (very useful)
• Refinery 29: Style Stalking
• Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible
• Tim Gunn: A guide to quality, taste and style
• Tim Gunn: Life’s Lessons for Making it Work
• Wear this now: Your style solution to everything

Psychology of Style

• You are what you wear – An in-depth emotional / psychological look into clothing and style
• What to wear for the rest of your life – A survey of real women and their style essays
• Women in Clothes: A Survey – Real women style and what makes them tick
• Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the power of style

Fast Fashion Denouncing

• Overdressed: The shockingly high cost of fast fashion – It will change the way you look at clothes
• Wardrobe Crisis: How we went from Sunday Best to Fast Fashion

Luxury Today

• Deluxe: How luxury lost its lustre – What luxe and luxury really means today
• The End of Fashion: How marketing changed fashion
• Hijacking the Runway: How celebrities have changed fashion

The Value of Bargains and Shopping

• Priceless: The myth of fair value – What things really cost
• Bargain Fever: How to shop in a discounted world

Fashion Biographies / Insider Accounts

• Jeanne Beker: Finding myself in Fashion
• Bringing Home the Birkin – Inside Hermès and hunting down this “rare” bag…
• Gods & Kings: The rise and fall of McQueen and Galliano
• Battle of Versailles: The night American Fashion made history
• Women from the ankle down: The story of shoes
• Tales from the Back Row – Attending fashion shows and observations
• Grace: A memoir – Grace Coddington of Vogue whom I loved in this documentary The September Issue
• Champagne Supernovas – The Renegades of 90s Fashion including Kate Moss and McQueen
• Your Beauty Mark: Dita von Teese
• Mademoiselle Chanel
• Mademoiselle: Chanel and the pulse of history
• Chanel & her world
• Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War
• American Dreamer: Tommy Hilfiger
• Ralph Lauren: The Man, The Vision, The Style
• My Journey: Donna Karan
• Joe Zee: That’s what fashion is
• In my shoes: Tamara Mellon & Jimmy Choo Story
• Born to be Brad (Goreski)
• Elsa Schiaperelli
• D.V. (Diana Vreeland)
• [Video] The First Monday in May – Met Ball Preparations
• [Video] The September Issue – Behind the scenes of an issue of Vogue September

Makeup

• Branded Beauty: How marketing changed the way we look – All about makeup
• Ugly Beauty: Helena Rubenstein, L’Oreal and the history of makeup companies

Street Style Eye Candy Lookbooks

• Sartorialist-X – Street style shots
• The Sartorialist
• The Sartorialist: Closer
• Paris Street Style
• Paris Street Style: Shoes
• Brooklyn Street Style
• Berlin Street Style