Resort FashionStyle in Sun-Drenched Climates

This armchair travel book chronicles the history of resort wear staples and the start of the jet set era. “Crossing continents, styles, and generations, we travel through the tradition of vacation style, from early beach pyjamas by Chanel and Schiaparelli to sailor stripes, to Pucci and Pulitzer prints, and, of course, to the bikini.” From St. Tropez to Montego Bay, renowned photographers like Newton and Scavullo have captured the most glamorous and playful fashions under the sun.

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Audrey 100

This attractive coffee table book features one hundred full page photos of unforgettable movie star and style icon extraordinaire Audrey Hepburn. All pictures were carefully selected by her partner and two sons to convey Audrey’s personal story and the qualities she stood for throughout her life and career. We follow the well-known actress, humanitarian and mother over a time span of forty years, and through these “100 emotions, 100 feelings, 100 little pieces of time, slowly a new image begins to emerge: a work of art dedicated to her life, her joys, her sorrows, her mischievousness, her laughter”. With a foreword by her son Sean Hepburn Ferrer, and an 9″ x 11″ removable print.

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Summer at TiffanyA Memoir

In 1945 Marjorie and her college friend Marty land jobs as pages at the iconic Tiffany & Co., becoming the first women to ever work on the sales floor. This is the start of a magical Summer as they witness celebrities like Marlene Dietrich and Judy Garland shop at the store, dance the night away in Manhattan’s legendary nightclubs, fall in love with two handsome midshipmen and celebrate V-J Day in Times Square. Sixty years later the author evokes the World War II era and 1940s life in New York City – a time that will always remain special to her – through the eyes of two innocent small-town girls.

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Christian Lacroix and the Tale of Sleeping BeautyA Fashion Fairy Tale Memoir

Fashion meets fiction in this fairy tale memoir based on the Tale of Sleeping Beauty. Camilla Morton reinvents the classic “once upon a time” story to record the real-life bio of renowned couturier Christian Lacroix, famous for his sumptuous fabrics and dramatic style. With exclusive illustrations and digital collages by the designer himself, “this tale illuminates Mr. Lacroix’s creative magic while celebrating his unique life and career. The result is an intriguing combination of whimsy and memoir.”

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Honey, It’s All in the ShoesCelebrating the Footsteps of the Contemporary Woman

From the shoes she wore the first day of school to the ones she sported the day her twin sons were born, footwear fan Phyllis Hoffman remembers them all. In this book of personal essays she reminisces about her favourite pairs and the small and big steps she took in them. Defining moments in her own life are mixed with stories of style icons and the shoes they loved to wear. With celebrity shoe quotations and black and white illustrations of footwear throughout the ages.

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