Editorial Review:Product Description: Every time you dress, you assert your identity. With style, you tell the world your story. In that way, style affords you opportunities to think about your appearance as a quality of your creative character.
The Little Black Book of Style helps you to explore your own fashion voice—the piece of you that joyously revels in the glamorous experience of creating your best self. From cultivating good taste to guarding against definite fashion faux pas, Nina Garcia offers readers the ultimate guide to follow when it comes to dressing their best. Including tips on how and when to wear an outfit, occasion-appropriate wear, advice on how to combine colors and textures, and inspiration on how to achieve your own signature look, you learn how to experiment, storyboard, archive, and play. Timeless and universal, this book seeks to remind women that eternal style is internal style, and that everyone has what it takes to discover themselves through the colorful palette that is fashion.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Related Items:
see more
Related Items:
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
-
The Little Black Book of Stale Advice
I am interested in style, I enjoy reading about it. Indeed, style is (and should be) something one can learn. This book will not teach you style or anything else for that matter. It is very light on original text and ideas. Mostly it is *sound bites* from famous and semi-famous people about what makes style etc. I estimate that a full half of this small book is these quips. The rest of the book is about how wonderful the author is and how her mother is the epitome of chic (to me she sounds self-absorbed and foolish, she moved her seamstress into their home so she had constant access to alterations). I do not think Elle Maxcpherson talking about lingerie to be style advice and do not desire to emulate Madonna in her conical bra stage. There is a section on fashion decade by decade, 1920 to now. A section on women's style by country ( and how does one sum up a continent's sytle in a paragraph or 2?) and a section telling us which movies were iconic to fashion and why. I am not kidding here, this is this books contents. To finish off, the drawings of women in this book are ultra elongated and porportioned oddly not to mention thin, thin, thin. Plus the drawings are badly dressed. Again, I kid you not.
Rating: 
-
Good!
If you are planning getting involved with fashion and style and those things, this book is a good start. Also, is easy to read.
Rating: -
Great book written by a great personality!
Nina Garcia is my favorite Project Runway judge because of her no-nonsense, straight to the point critique style. I loved this book. What I loved most about this book were the anecdotes about her family and her Columbian roots. I wish she would have included more. The rest of the book is pretty much basic for anyone who studies fashion, but the writing style, which incorporates her off-beat sense of humor makes this a good read. I would have appreciated some pictures in addition to Mr. Toledo's beautiful drawings, but nevertheless this book is well worth the $14.00 price tag.
To the reviewer who said this book is only for skinny women -- you are so wrong. Fashion has nothing to do with size, it has everything do to with proportions and perception. The moral of any fashion story is that A 200+ pound woman (such as myself) can look as good as and even better than a size 2 woman as long as she has the right outfit...
Rating: 
-
" you are either in or you 're out(of style)."
The book was interesting but didn't keep me interested. I gave it to my sister who is studying Fashion design and she thought it had very usefull info on the subject.
Rating: 
-
Only good for skinny girls.
If you're fat like me, stay far away from this book. The advice in here only applies to skinny girls. From the "little black dress" to "you can't have too many high heels." Only skinny girls can pull these looks off. And of course she tells the usual like that it's "all about confidence." No it's not. We live in a world that only cares about physical appearence, not personality or confidence. Trust me, if you're fat like me, the only thing this book is good for is starting fires.
