Style Clinic: How to Look Fabulous All the Time, at Any Age, for Any Occasion
Style Clinic: How to Look Fabulous All the Time, during Any Age, for Any Occasion
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Review by Dr. Shanelle for Style Clinic: How to Look Fabulous All the Time, at Any Age, for Any Occasion
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I didn’t think I could love a book as much I love Lucky’s Shopping Manual, a timeless classic for crafting your own style. However, Paula Reed’s Style Clinic jutxaposes the practical, readily applicable, styling advice of Lucky’s Manual with the chic sophistication of Nina Garcia’s seminal texts (Black Book of Style and the “Hundred”). While you love the whimsical drawings by Ruben Toledo in Garcia’s book, it left you wanting actual photographs to help pull the concepts together. In terms of its visual appeal, Reed’s Style Clinic delivers what Garcia’s texts do not.
The chapters are well organized, easy to understand and apply, provides styling choices at every price-point, as well as to-do lists, and suggestions for essential items. The book stresses QUALITY over QUANTITY and the photos are beautiful, vibrant, and inspirational. I had the book two days before I went and purged several ill-fitting, overly trendy, cheap garments from my closet and what a difference it makes!
Lastly, while many love Lucky’s shopping manual, it does tend to lean heavily towards the early-mid twenties, size 2-6 crowd. Reed has styling recommendations for any age, the thin, curvy, top heavy, and bottom light. Like Garcia, Finney (the budget fashionista), and Tim Gunn, Reed stresses Style over fashion and trends. Sound advice in an economy where many of us are recessionista converts.
In short, GO GET IT! YOU WON’T BE SORRY!
Review by Sacramento Book Review for Style Clinic: How to Look Fabulous All the Time, at Any Age, for Any Occasion
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If you’ve been religiously collecting fashion magazines for the last 25 years, then this book is NOT for you. Authored by Paula Reed, style director/columnist of many UK fashion magazines, a devoted fashionista won’t look up from this book thinking “Hmmm, that makes so much sense.” However, if you’re a working woman who’s been spending your weekday mornings looking at your bursting closet and frantically trying to figure out a passable outfit for the day, or a mom pinching pennies for your family’s outfits, then Style Clinic is a book absolutely worth keeping.
Style Clinic – How to Look Fabulous All the Time, at Any Age, for Any Occasion lives up to its title, as well as to the belief that: while fashion is time-bound, style is timeless. Filled with practical instructions, checklists, guidelines, tips and advice about dressing up from head to toe, for every type of event all throughout the year, whatever your body type and budget are, this volume is worth every penny you save from not buying another coat or another shirt which you won’t be using again, or worse, ever. The information is organized, and quotes about style and trends from well-loved designers and style icons also grace the pages, giving readers a better understanding of the thinking behind their products.
Following the tips in this book, you will surely be making better choices the next time you dress up.
Reviewed by D. Harms
Review by Lady Maxwell for Style Clinic: How to Look Fabulous All the Time, at Any Age, for Any Occasion
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This book is the perfect combination of Nina Garcia’s The Little Black Book and Lucky’s Style Manual. I was looking for a book that was similar to either and luckily, I found this book! It has a list of “the basics” like Garcia’s book, but instead of drawings, it has pictures like Lucky’s. After reading this book, I felt an urge to organize my closet and redefine my style.
I find most fashion books to be either (1) too wordy causing me to lose interest or (2) has too few pictures of the fashion – and they are usually pictures of styles that is beautiful but impractical to wear. This is the type of book that you can use as reference and will never go out of style. I wish more fashion books were like this.
Btw, if you’re into vintage fashion, there is a book similar in style to Garcia’s book (which I love) that combines drawings with brief description/ history of each design/ designer called Shopping for Vintage: The Definitive Guide to Vintage Fashion by Funmi Odulate and Richard Merritt, which is brief but informative without all the extraneous information.
Review by Nguyen Pham Doan Khanh for Style Clinic: How to Look Fabulous All the Time, at Any Age, for Any Occasion
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I had high hope hope and expectation for this book when I bought it, partly because of the author and partly because I was on a beauty phase of my own. I was disappointed.
There is good information in this book for sure and for any woman who might need some direction in planning a new closet of her own. but for people who have at least read a few magazines or fashion how-to book before than it becomes pretty much redundant.
Add into that, the organizing of the book make it confusing and not a little bit user-friendly, especially for people who might want to get a little deeper in customizing their own style based on their body types and personality.
Further more, the pictures and clothes used in this book just spell BLAH (big one). I got the feeling that the author was writing for some kind of old style, extremely conservative woman who was just beginning her own journey of finding something beautiful in life. The pictures of celebrities were hardly what you’d call outstanding (and in some an out right crime, 70 year-old looking woman in a spaghetti strap floral dress. I’m not against beauty and style at any age but at some point you have to say, please, lady, that’s too much skin!!). In my opinion, fashion and style is fun. You’re supposed to enjoy it (after all it is part of yourself you’re discovering here). But I didn’t find anything such in this book. There are no colors except for the suffocating sea of neutral, black, and white (repetition!!!), and I didn’t find any section dedicated to finding your best-looking color or how to put colors together in your wardrobe either (which is a must if you want to go any where near “fabulous”)
To wrap it up, unless your closet has just been hit by a mini hurricane and you want to reconstruct a new one, DON’T BOTHER. You’re probably getting off more as ‘conservative, safe, librarian lady (with no sexy librarian vibe)’ than ‘fabulous at any time, age, or occasion)
Review by Lin for Style Clinic: How to Look Fabulous All the Time, at Any Age, for Any Occasion
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As many other reviewers have stated before me, the photos in this book are fabulous and the reader will not be dissappointed in them.
The only reason that I gave this book four stars rather than five is because I was so frustrated in that when the author showed an outfit or an item, she never stated the brand!… YES,true, the author did provide the readers with a long list of stores that the items COULD BE bought at,(maybe), however, there is absolutely no way for the reader to know which of the MANY many stores the author listed in the index, carried the actual products photographed in this book.
I’ll give you some examples: … she showed a variety of jeans that fit each body-type. Beautiful ideas! Well, some of those jeans were wonderful looking,for sure, but since no BRAND was ever given,then there was no way for the reader to go out and buy the jeans that fit her body type. I was so frustrated, and I’m sure that when you browse this book, you will see exactly what I’m talking about. Well, maybe that is not a big thing with some readers or maybe some readers are so totally “brand-savvy”, that they can look at 200 products and immediately tell which maker or brand makes them. But honestly, most people in the “real world” (except maybe Hollywood stylists) could never do that. People like us need to know not only the stores that carry such products, but also, it would be nice to know the brands, so that a shopper can go directly to that store listed in the index (whether on the internet or in person).
Another example are the shoes: This book pictured some of the most gorgeous shoes imaginable, but the photos were taken so that the insides were not visible and thus, the reader could not tell who made them. Aside from the obvious Christian Loubitins with the obvious red soles, how can a reader know which platforms or pumps or sandals were made by which brand?
I’ll give you another exmaple: I also own the book by Isaac Mizrahi and the best thing about that book is that each and every product shown in Isaac’s book is given credit. Thus, not only does the reader know which stores carry the products Isaac mentions (eg: the photographed shoes, jeans,coats,purses,ect), but also Isaac names all the stores in the USA that carry every single product that he photographed in his book.
Thus, I wish that the author of “STYLE CLINIC” would have done the same.
PS: In the back of this book, each of the PHOTOGRAPHERS of the Hollywood starlets (photographed in this book) were given credit. So basically, the only credits given in the back of this book were the photographers of the starlets OR the magazine for which the photographers worked for.
Thus, to piggy-back what I said before, I only wish the author had given credit to the products’ brand names, along with the photographers & magazine names.
Review by Anita Ashland for Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style (Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style)
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You can almost hear Tim Gunn’s distinct voice as you read this book. His thoughts translate as well on paper as they do on television.
In the “Who You Are” chapter he sets you at ease with his characteristic warmth as he tells you that you are who you are for a reason and he is here to help you accentuate your positive features and mitigate the negative ones. He recognizes that there is a connection between inner and outer beauty and encourages you to think hard about who you are.
This book doesn’t contain lots of details about what to wear or not to wear. He zeroes in on the basics – he provides a top ten list of wardrobe essentials (he convinced me that ballet flats are necessary, for instance) – and doesn’t overwhelm the reader. There is a chapter devoted to posture and walking. A chapter devoted to style icons ranging from Katharine Hepburn to Kate Moss to Patti Smith. Instructions for how to dress for various special occasions. There’s a chapter about the challenge of finding the right fit. There’s much more to style than merely the clothes and his book addresses this very well.
The most helpful section is the one that addresses Creeping Closet Syndrome. He gives specific instructions about editing your closet and every woman should heed them. The New York apartment in which he lived for 15 years had seven linear feet of closet space so he knows how to edit.
He praises stores like H&M and encourages quality over quantity. Every woman would do well to read his chapter on shopping before succumbing to the urge to go on a shopping spree. He says, “The most important part of your expedition should take place before you leave home. The salient question to ask is: ‘Why am I shopping today?’”
I finished this book with regret, wishing for more, which is how I imagine I would feel after finishing a conversation with him over lunch. Now, I’m off to buy some ballet flats…
Review by J. Whitford for Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style (Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style)
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The only reason I watch Project Runway is to see Tim Gunn “make it work”. The only blogs I read on the Project Runway web site are those by Tim Gunn. His blogs are so insightful into what transpired on each episode. Tim is an incredibly unassuming, elegant, stylish man. You just want to sit and talk to him about fashion for hours on end.
There are so many books about style on the market – most of them by thirtysomethings who are telling us how to dress hot, keep up with the fashion trends or imitate well known celebrity fashions.
It is a joy to read Tim’s book about identifying and capturing your own definitive signature style. I love that he includes “Blind Spots” – things we do to sabotage our fashion wardrobe.
Tim starts by helping you define your style and the pitfalls we often make in choosing and wearing fashions. He takes us shopping, warns us about the “it” bag while we choose accessories and the right outfit.
At the end of the book we are treated to a little fashion dictionary and a list of fashionista movies that are fun to watch.
I highly recommend this book over all the other fashion guides for its classic take on being your authentic fashion self and its timeless advice.
Be sure to watch Tim Gunn’s new show on Bravo – which continues his take on style and taste.
Review by Kimberley Wilson for Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style (Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style)
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One of the best things about Project Runway is Tim Gunn and he’s offering witty advice and commentary on style, taste and quality in this delightful book. One of the things I was most surprised about was Gunn’s maxim that you should forget about clothes size. Sizes vary depending on where the clothes were made and when. The important thing is to make sure the outfit fits you. He talks about how to buy quality clothes and how to shop. He also discusses appropiateness. A 60 year old looks like a fool when she dresses like her granddaughter and the 13 year old looks all wrong dressed and painted up to look like a matron.
A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style doesn’t assume that the reader is rich and points out that looking good isn’t about spending a fortune. It’s a light hearted, charming guide and is as smooth and sophisticated as it’s author. I loved, loved, loved it.
Review by Siepres for Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style (Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style)
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Amazon recommended Tim Gunn’s book to me, and I decided to check it since there were some very positive reviews about its content. Nevertheless, I really did not find it that helpful.
First of all, when I pick up a style book, I do expect there to be some discussion of selecting clothes for your body. Even if the book is helping you to cultivate your personal sense of style, it should be honest about what kinds of clothes are just not going to be flattering on you. Gunn dealt with the body problems in two pages, and one gets the impression that his body “flaws” were more for models, instead of the everyday woman. A woman with a very curvy hourglass figure, for example, would need to dress in head-to-toe dark colors, according to his advice.
Secondly, the chapter on fashion icons had a great deal of potential, but it fell flat. This section would have greatly benefited from pictures. The icon descriptions were woefully underdone, so that I had to read the chapter three times to make any sense of them.
However, on the positive side, Gunn does offer some excellent suggestions for shopping, closet purging, and fit, which are well-worth a glance through. The tone is rather elitist, but in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way.
Overall, I would recommend checking it out from the library, skipping the sections on style mentors, and heading straight for his information on fit, your closet, and shopping. Grade: C-
Review by New York Foodie for Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style (Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style)
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Don’t open this book expecting “before” and “after” photos or expecting body shape descriptions. Instead, this book is like spending a few days in the very good company of Mr. Tim Gunn. Having met Tim on several occasions, I can tell you Project Runway fans that he is every bit as kind and generous with his time in person. An utterly delightful, humble man who seems honestly surprised at his new celebrity status. But back to the book – with Tim’s distinctive voice, it takes you through the elements of style, as opposed to fashion or trends. “Quality, taste and style” will become your mantra whether you’re shopping for a raincoat, theater tickets, wedding china, or a paint color for your living room! Yes, there is advice you’ve heard before – buy the best quality you can afford, keep it simple, have your clothes tailored – but there is also plenty of new things to ponder. I loved his advise of, once determining which clothes you really love, that you wear them for the next week. You quickly discover whether you are buying clothes that are appropriate for your current lifestyle. Frankly, who could ask for fresher eyes to look over your wardrobe that the inimitably elegant Mr. Tim Gunn?