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