The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style: How to Wear Iconic Looks and Make Them Your Own

The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style: How to Wear Iconic Looks and Make Them Your Own | Kim France, Andrea Linett | the only fashion guide you will ever need.

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	The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style: How to Wear Iconic Looks and Make Them Your Own Kim France, Andrea Linett Gotham, 2008 - 312 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

On the heels of the fabulously successful Lucky Shopping Manual comes the complete handbook for creating a great look based on ten iconic styles ?packed with more than 450 color images.

With a circulation of 1.1 million, Lucky magazine has taken America?s most dedicated shoppers by storm, offering real-world advice and first-rate finds. Now the Lucky experts show how to put it all together in an inspiring collection of ideas that go beyond the basics and yield endless innovation for year-round reinvention.

Based on the techniques used by fashion designers for years, The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style features ten versatile archetypes that can be customized to fit varying moods, personalities, and body types. Applying these enduring styles to a dazzling spectrum of possibilities, The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style deconstructs each look, with components including clothes, shoes, accessories, patterns, and colors. Just as designers use swatches and images to spark creativity, readers will have access to hundreds of photographs from style setters. Must-haves for every closet, foolproof instructions, profiles of real-life Lucky Girls, and money-saving Lucky Breaks make this the indispensable resource for complete chic.

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not my usual kind of book but this is AMAZING

I don't usually read style-guides but this book is so good. It is clear, visually and textually and I actually stayed up last night thinking about what I already own that I can put together in new ways. It's a really nice, encouraging book that has the same supportive tone of the magazine and the same wealth of ideas. I love this book and am definitely giving it as gifts this X-mas.

the only fashion guide you will ever need.

this could be the only fashion guide you will ever need. there are many styles to choose from and they can all work for everyone. it makes achieving these looks so simple and creates an understanding of each one.
i recommend not getting stuck on any one of the styles but being open to all of them. this guide simplifies each style so much that it makes you want to try each one
after following this book you may just be set for life. the styles in this book are timeless and beyond the constant changes of fashion.
every girl from teen and up should have this guide book.

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a great place to start your style

I love looking at the different books that are about style and fashion. I can't ever decide what style epitomizes me, maybe posh eclectic with a little American Classic and Rocker, but really fun to look over. I love seeing pieces in my closet in the book. That can help make my velvet flared jacket wearable everyday. Or my floor length tweed wrap skirt. I'm not sure what I would wear with that, maybe white button down,only I can't bring myself to wear a white button down. anyway, a fun book. I wish there were things about body type. I guess it can't have everything.

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Fun and Informative

(Rating: 4.5)

A veritable adult picture book for fashion lovers, "The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style" is filled with glossy colorful photos of clothing, accessories and fashion icons. Written by the notable editors of Lucky shopping magazine, this book is the highly anticipated follow up to "The Lucky Shopping Manual" which was released in 2003. The new book takes style to the next level by focusing on ten unique iconic looks and teaching readers how to achieve them. You don't have to be a trendy fashionista to appreciate this book's style advice and helpful hints. Rather, it is a guide that will help you identify which styles you like best as well as aid in achieving the appropriate balance between the different looks. Each section showcases a different `iconic look' along with essential clothing pieces and accessories, Lucky Girl profiles of women who embody the particular look and suggested stores to visit. There is also a mix and match section (modeled by Lucky magazine's staff members - `lucky' them!) that shows you how to combine the looks while remaining true to your own style. In the spirit of the Lucky magazine tradition, the book also offers exclusive discounts and giveaways for its readers in the last few pages.

My only complaint about the book is that it does not provide specific brand information for the clothes and accessories it includes, making it a challenge to find a particular item that one might want to purchase. Granted this book is a style guide and not a catalogue and thus the intentions are not necessarily to sell its contents, I would have still liked for product information to have been included nonetheless. Although I would assume that most of the designer items would be too expensive for the average consumer, myself included, I still think the inclusion of the specific labels would have been beneficial.

This book makes for a really fun addition to anyone's library, even those who consider themselves fashion-challenged (or perhaps, especially those who consider themselves fashion-challenged). It is a great resource that can be pulled out at any time and practically incorporated into one's daily style choices.

The following are the 10 iconic looks featured in the book:

1. Euro Chic (think Catherine Deneuve and silk blouses)
2. California Casual (think Farah Fawcett and denim cutoffs)
3. Rock and Roll (think Debbie Harry and leather jackets)
4. Posh Eclectic (think Helena Christensen and pink ruffled skirts)
5. Mod (think Twiggy and A-line mini dresses)
6. American Classic (think Jackie O and the little black dress)
7. Bombshell (think Marilyn Monroe and fitted pencil skirts)
8. Arty Slick (think Bjork and asymmetrical tops)
9. Bohemian (think Stevie Nicks and peasant tops)
10. Gamine (think Audrey Hepburn and trench coats)

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Read the magazine instead

Although there are a few interesting tips in this book, it is not nearly the quality of the previous Lucky book. It seems geared to a young reader and does not offer much depth. There are also some really lazy editorial mistakes. For example, on page 169, a suit is described as a Gucci suit, but in the picture, the label is clearly Dolce&Gabbana. On page 17, wide leg jeans are pictured as Euro Chic jeans, yet in every example of a euro chic icon, they are wearing skinny jeans/pants. Lastly, though you are given some promo codes at the end, credits for actual items shown are missing. Save your money and pass on this one.

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