The Shapeshifters

The Shapeshifters

Andrew Brooks

Nonfiction / Couture / Fashion

Arrabel Grean must escape the wrath of the barony after beheading Baroness Everard. On the run in the Dread Forests Arrabel is attacked by a woodland monster that severs her foot leaving her bleeding and immobile. As she attempts to heal herself she is discovered by a tribe of nomadic Bonekeepers. Will they turn her in? Or do they have something else in mind for Arrabel?
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Tales from the Back Row

Tales from the Back Row

Amy Odell

Couture / Fashion / Nonfiction

"Hilarious, insightful and smart. A must-read for anyone who wears clothes." —Chelsea Handler *US Weekly, "Riveting Reads for Labor Day"* *Bustle, "2015 Books Every Funny Woman Should Read" and "September 2015's Best Books"* *Refinery29 "Fall's Most Highly Anticipated Nonfiction Reads"* *theSkimm, "Skimm Reads"* *Popsugar, "Motivational Books You Should Read this Fall"* *AM NY, "New Books for New Yorkers to Read This Fall"* The Lowdown on High Fashion Cosmopolitan.com editor Amy Odell knows what it's really like to be a young woman working in the fashion industry.In Tales from the Back Row, Amy—funny and fearless—takes readers behind the stage of New York's hottest fashion shows to meet the world's most influential models, designers, celebrities, editors, and photographers. But first, she has to push her way through the crowds outside, where we see the lengths people go to be...
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Always Pack a Party Dress: And Other Lessons Learned From a (Half) Life in Fashion

Always Pack a Party Dress: And Other Lessons Learned From a (Half) Life in Fashion

Amanda Brooks

Fashion

RetailAn authentic voice in the world of style and how-to books, Amanda Brooks, with her unique and enviable yet accessible style, has inspired thousands of women – of all ages – to find their own personal look and explore their identity through the clothes they love to wear.                In the past twenty years Brooks has worked as a photo assistant for Patrick Demarchelier, a “gallerina” at the Gagosian Gallery, and at various fashion posts, before finding her dream job as fashion director for Barneys New York. Along the way—and wearing more than a few of the kinds of outfits we’ve all regretted at one point or another—Brooks has discovered the key to creating her personal style, combining influences as wide-ranging as childhood prep school, Grateful Dead concerts, contemporary artists, pop culture, and her current home outside of the fashion bubble, a farm where she lives with her family (and a host of animals) in England.                In Always Pack a Party Dress, Brooks recalls her early career aspirations and explores the evolution of her own personal style in stories of successes and failures alike, and offers fashion and beauty tips and inspiring photographs throughout. She shares her expertise and inside view with warm, candid, often witty prose. Always Pack a Party Dress is a must-read for high fashion or street style aficionados, and gorgeously produced gift book, Brooks’ shares her expertise and insider view with warm, candid and often witty prose.
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Fashion Climbing

Fashion Climbing

Bill Cunningham

Memoir / Photography / Fashion

The New York Times bestseller"[An] obscenely enjoyable romp . . . [Fashion Climbing] leaves the readers gasping for more." —The New York Times Book ReviewThe untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and styleFor Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings after school in the city's chicest boutiques, Bill dreamed of a life dedicated to fashion. But his desires were a source of shame for his family, and after dropping out of Harvard, he had to fight them tooth-and-nail to pursue his love. When he arrived in New York, he reveled in people-watching. He spent his nights at opera openings and gate-crashing extravagant balls, where he would take note of the styles, new and old, watching how the gowns moved, how the jewels hung, how the hair...
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I Love You Too Much

I Love You Too Much

Alicia Drake

Couture / Fashion / Nonfiction

I knew I was in Paris, I knew that was the Seine beneath me, the sky above, but when I looked around for help, the grand apartment buildings of the Quai Voltaire stared back at me, indifferent. Alicia Drake, author of the critically acclaimed biography The Beautiful Fall, evokes contemporary life in the City of Lights lavishness of Edward St. Aubyn and the sophistication of Julia Pierpont's Among Ten Thousand Things. I Love You Too Much is a novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a devastating coming of age story told from the sidelines of Parisian perfection. In the sixth arrondissement everything is perfect and everyone is lonely. This is the Paris of thirteen-year-old Paul. Shy and unloved, he quietly observes the lives of the self-involved grown-ups around him: his glamorous Maman, Séverine, her younger musician lover, Gabriel, and his fitness-obsessed Papa, Philippe. Always overlooked, it's only a matter of time...
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