LIVING IN STYLE WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND
By Marco Pasanella
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0684850478


Do you want to decorate your home and make it look like a million dollars without spending big bucks? LIVING IN STYLE WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND gives you tips for decorating your home and teaches you basic design principles so you can get the look you've always wanted. Marco Pasanella helps you create your personal style and offers tips on how to buy a sofa, how to decorate without spending a dime, how to use food to decorate, and many other money saving and helpful tips!

LINGERIE: A Lexicon of Style
By Caroline Cox
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0312271417


Underwear, bras, slips, corsets, and stockings. Find out everything you wanted to know about lingerie in Caroline Cox's study of lingerie and how it shapes the fashion world and defines a woman. Learn about the historical trends of lingerie and its theories from the past to the present. LINGERIE includes over 200 colored photographs and drawings so you can see the fashion trends of the past and present and possibly pick out a style that best suits you!  

BEAUTY IN EXILE: The Artists, Models, and Nobility Who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion
By Alexandre Vassiliev
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 0810957019


Find out how Russians influenced the world of fashion and culture in America and Europe after the Russian Revolution. BEAUTY IN EXILE offers hundreds of black and white photographs, some never before released, and Alexandre Vassiliev gives us an insider view of the emigrants who fled Russia and made it big in the fashion industry. Learn about the Russian beauties of the 1920s-1940s and read the stories of such stars like Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and more!

--- Reviewed by Kelly Gagliardi

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