I Love Your Style: How To Define And Refine Your Personal Style (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
A easygoing and lighthearted read about fashion and style and finding your own. There's quite a bit of biography here but I think the point is about using your life and lifestyle to arrive at a style identity that suits you and is about your own personality, rather than slavishly following fashion. There's a section here to suit any style of dresser, and it is pleasingly inspirational. There are no rules here about what you must or must not have in your wardrobe, rather, this read is about encouraging you to experiment and think about how clothes work and how to put them together. I also liked the strong message that you don't have to have lots of money to dress to suit yourself and your personality. I like that this is a different kind of style book, one that is more about creativity and experimentation than most. It doesn't get much into the topics so many style books do, like lists of must-have items and how to dress for your body type. It's more about providing inspiration and sparking creativity through the many photographs included under chapters on Classic Style, Bohemian Style, High Fashion Style, Minimal Style, Street Style, etc.For me the best advice in the book was the suggestion to create tear sheets or folders with book and magazine pictures that inspire you -- whole outfits, color combinations, textiles, scenes that invoke an era or feeling -- as a way to help you define your style and come up with inspiration for dressing. By continually adding to and editing what you have there, you'll see what your enduring style is, and what things you only like in passing.If there's one drawback to the book, it's that it's a little too Vogue Magazine/fashion insider-y for my tastes. All the fawning over Kate Moss's and the Olson twins' style was a bit much for me, for instance, since to me they look like hobos half the time. But I guess that's because my style is on the Classic side and not the Bohemian side!For me this book wasn't as useful as ones by Tim Gunn, Janie Bryant and Nina Garcia, but it was still a fun and inspiring read. It's worth checking out for the photographs, if nothing else.
What do You think about I Love Your Style: How To Define And Refine Your Personal Style (2009)?
Ok book. I really didn't like the layout of the book. I wish it was a little more clearly laid-out.
—biaa
