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I Love Your StyleHow to Define and Refine Your Personal Style

by Amanda Brooks

There are no must-haves lists or dos and don’ts in this style guide/lookbook. Instead author Amanda Brooks offers practical tips to spark creativity and find your own unique sense of style. From exploring your style history and exposing yourself to all kinds of fashion, to dressing with an open mind and embracing the fact that style is not stagnant and making mistakes is okay. In six chapters full of photo inspiration she analyzes six different styles – Classic, Bohemian, Minimal, High Fashion, Street and Eclectic, explaining along the way how to make each look your own. Then, in the Shopping section, discover what to snap up and what to leave at the store no matter if you’re shopping Basics, Cheap Chic, Designer or Vintage.

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Sylvia

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I love your style is one of my favorite style books. I like the writer’s tone of voice and her descriptions of the various styles and her own experience with that style. Most of all I like the many pictures of style icons, celebrities and herself wearing the specific styles, that can be found throughout the book. This book is a joy to read and to look at!

May 3, 2012 at 9:01 am

Sona

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I really liked the book because of the large number of references and pictures. It also got me thinking: what a great yet not so great job: to be a fashion muse. I would love it for the fashion exposure and hate it for the lack of privacy.

Anyway one thing that really resonated with me: is to really know your body. every trend is not for everyone. I find that dressing for my body makes me more confident. And she stresses the imprtance of confidence.

Also: she talks about knowing one’s fashion hisotry and staying true to it. For me this is incoprorating my family’s love for jewelry into every outfit.

Great book!

May 10, 2012 at 10:02 am

Rose

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One of my very favorite style books, too.

Reviewers elsewhere have criticized Amanda Brooks for her “privileged” attitude toward fashion expenditures – i.e. she recommends spending 315 dollars for a tank top if you know that you’ll wear it a lot. And it certainly is true that the rarefied high-fashion circles in which she moves (as a Palm Beach heiress and designer’s muse) do color her prose, and make many of her suggestions unrealistic or unnecessary for most people.

But I love how egalitarian she is about style; so many style writers are, in my opinion, unnecessarily prescriptive and rigid. Brooks includes sections on a number of niche aesthetics – including hip-hop, bohemian, eclectic, androgynous, and minimal – and treats them each with the same enthusiasm and clarity.

And the selection of photographs is utterly amazing.

January 2, 2013 at 10:07 am

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