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"Is deciding what to wear a dreaded daily task that takes up valuable time best spent doing something else? Style expert Alison Lumbatis shows you how easy it is to build a basic yet beautiful wardrobe starting with the clothes you already own and adding other classic, seasonal mix-and-match elements that work for your body shape and your budget. Once your wardrobe is set, you can use the formulas in this book to create stylish outfits, freeing you...
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes the gripping story of a woman who loses everything--her husband, her home, her sense of self and safety, and her freedom. Sydney Wells's perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With Andrew's vicious daughters in control of his estate, and no home or money,...
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Fascinating facts, fun pictures, and easy-to-read sidebars highlight informative text about some of the most interesting jobs that take place behind the scenes in the fashion industry. Readers will get a glimpse at what it takes to make it as a retail buyer, stylist, fashion writer, and more and find out what goes on behind the glamour.
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Empowering and encouraging, this picture book biography of the first nationally known African American fashion designer, who dressed millionaires and movie stars, details her creative process as well as the obstacles she overcame to become the best"--
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Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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This book "is the embodiment of Rachel's ethos--a style guide every woman, no matter what stage of life she is in, [can use] to help her define and implement her personal look, motivate her to focus on the person she wants to be and the job she aspires to have, and make choices based on where she wants to go. Rachel offers hands-on tips for developing personal style while staying true to yourself, using and updating what's in your closest, and adding...
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Steve Madden
Pub. Date
2023
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"Everyone knows Steve Madden's name and his shoes, but few are familiar with his story. Over the past thirty years Steve Madden has taken his eponymous shoe company from the fledgling start up he founded with a mere $1,100 to a global, multi-billion dollar brand. But Madden's mistakes, from his battle with addiction to the financial shortcuts that landed him in prison, are as important to his story as his most iconic shoes. In this raw, intimate,...
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Rockport
Pub. Date
2016.
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Draw Fashion Now is a combination how-to guide and workbook that teaches the best techniques for illustrating and envisioning 21st-century fashion. Professional fashion illustrator Danielle Meder shares lessons she's learned over fourteen seasons of sketching fashion and style in every fashion capital, offering readers solid illustration techniques that demystify the enigma of fashion "attitude." Start by learning the development and rendering process...
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Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Do you like putting outfits together or starting fashion trends? That might be a potential clue to your future career! This book explores what a career in fashion might look like. Readers will discover how their interests can lead to a lifelong future career. Aligned to curriculum standards and 21st Century Skills, Career Clues for Kids prepares readers for a successful future. Includes table of contents, glossary, index, sidebars, and author biographies"--...
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018].
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"Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco's development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent helped her gain worldwide recognition. Coco Chanel focuses on the obstacles Chanel faced as a financially independent woman in an era when women were...
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2013
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Running a successful fashion empire in Paris and New York that hides the pain of a failed marriage, Timmie O endures a sequence of meaningless relationships before a surprise bout of appendicitis places her under the care of alluring but married French doctor, Jean-Charles Vernier.
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Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2023.
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The Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming the Next Big Fashion Illustrator. You've got a knack for designing--now what? With the help of successful fashion artist Holly Nichols, you'll learn how to take your passion to a new level. Elevate your designs with guides for drawing figures of all sizes, tools for digital creation and lessons on how to market your art to the right audiences on social media...With Holly's advice and expert tips, it's easier than...
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
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"From a bestselling fashion guru--a fascinating, meticulously researched history of Western fashion covering every topic from the history of the high heel to the origin of blue jeans.America's favorite fashion expert, New York Times bestselling author, beloved mentor on Project Runway, and a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Oz, The Biggest Loser, and others--Tim Gunn is also the chief creative officer of Liz Claiborne and a former faculty...
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David & Charles
Pub. Date
2011.
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This is a complete fashion school for drawing and painting fashion figures, garments, and accessories for all aspiring fashion illustrators and designers. Designed for newcomers and improvers, it shows how to construct the head and figure, compose for impact, and use all available media.
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"With so many style and shopping options, it can be difficult to create a streamlined closet of pieces that can be worn easily and confidently. In The Curated Closet, style writer Anuschka Rees presents a fascinatingly strategic approach to identifying, refining, and expressing personal style and building the ideal wardrobe to match it, with style and shopping strategies that women can use every day, "--Amazon.com.
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