Ira Neimark, former chairman and CEO of Bergdorf Goodman, recounts his 17-year tenure at the helm of the renowned luxury goods department store. The company’s evolution from the late sixties through the early nineties is interspersed with personal anecdotes, and details how he and his team developed a very specific marketing strategy that made Bergdorf Goodman into a legendary luxury fashion emporium. Mr. Neimark also shares his views on the fall of service, the loss of customer loyalty and the importance of the human touch. The “lessons learned” threaded throughout the book provide tips for retail success.

Ari Seth Cohen started his street style blog to pay tribute to a large, often overlooked, age group: stylish ladies and gentleman over 60. “To show that beauty, style, and creativity don’t disappear at a certain age”. From designer outfits to thrift store finds, from simple elegance to movie star glamour, from eccentric over punk to avant-garde… his real-life models celebrate individual style with confidence and joie de vivre. Now, the Advanced Style book combines the best of the blog “with all-new material featuring wardrobes, interviews, stories, and advice from a cadre of his most chic subjects”.

This compact book of quotations is a meditation on clothes, filled with folk sayings, bon mots and quotes about fashion. From Virgil and Baudelaire to Andy Warhol and Dorothy Parker. From mirrors and dishevelment to dress as self-expression and defying convention. Observations from times past and present have been cleverly arranged into themes that are sure to still spark conversation today.

Madame Dariaux, for years the directrice of the Nina Ricci salons, wrote down her views on timeless elegance in 1964. Her ABC of fashion and etiquette takes you from the beach to cocktail parties, restaurants and weddings. From bargains, budget, necklines, knees, to posture and men. Times, customs and dress expectations have radically changed since then, but this retro style guide still contains pearls of wisdom that hold true today.

The United States have become the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime where women have no rights, their every move is being watched and a strict dress code is enforced. Offred dresses in red, except for her white “wings”. She is a handmaid, her main role in life to bear children for the couple she has been assigned to. This is her chilling story.