6 Great Reads

I'm really going to get into gear and start doing some reading before school starts again. Career related, fashion related, and some fun stuff...

Here's my reading list:

I Love Your Style 

by Amanda Brooks

I've read this a few times but Amanda Brooks is definitely a style icon to me. She compiled some of the best photos, stories, and tips into her book. The book is more about defining a style, but I look to it for inspiration about my own style and its evolution. Oh, and the pictures! I love the pictures in here!

The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter by Linda Grant

This is a nonfiction book about how fashion and clothes really do matter and how they have an influence on culture and society. Definitely a fresh perspective on fashion! The book is preceded by a blog of the same name. Check that out here.

Backwards in High Heels: The Impossible Art of Being Female

by Tania Kindersley and Sarah Vine

This book houses a group of short stories about being a female. I love other perspectives on the odd, cruel, miserable, amazing, and always fabulous experience of being a woman. Who doesn't like to read a book and think, "Yeah, totally. That's me in a nutshell!"

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You by Kelly Cutrone and Meredith Bryan

I'm dying to read this book. If you've ever seen Kelly Cutrone on The Hills, The City, or Kell on Earth (her own show), you'll know why. She steals every show she's on and she is fantastic. Honest, brutal, talented, and she really knows what she's talking about, be it the fashion industry, PR, or life in general. She also has the "slap in the face" kind of honesty that I envy!

How to Win Friends and Influence People  

by Dale Carnegie

My dean actually recommended this book. It's sort of known as a classic for any workplace scenario and for networking in general. I even think some lessons in this book will apply to blogging, so it seems relevant... And hopefully it will just instantly make me outgoing, a great public speaker, a leader, and help my blog. Probably not, but I'm reading it anyway...

The Teen Vogue Handbook

I'll also plan to re-read parts of this book. It really does have some valuable tips on working in many areas of the fashion industry. Personally, I stick to the chapters on being a magazine editor.

Are you planning on doing some summer reading, too?

Happy Monday!

Emily

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Idol

(Somewhat) Timely title, no?

 I just wanted to share with you some ladies that are fashion icons to me...

Amanda Brooks: Writer and Author of I Love Your Style.

(J Crew muse/model, to boot!)

Marina Rust Connor: Vogue Contributing Editor. I've long read her articles in Vogue. I think she has a lovely voice in her writing and I love her style. She's lovely. I even found her out of print novel Gatherings and bought it on Amazon!

Lauren Santo Domingo: Vogue Contributing Editor and socialite. Do you remember her wedding featured in Vogue March 2008? It was amazing.

Meredith Melling Burke: Vogue Market Editor. She's my icon because I want to have her job one day! She does floor-length really well, too...

Plum Sykes: Vogue Contributing Editor/Author. Another favorite Vogue writer of mine and a fabulous lady overall!

I'd love to know your fashion icons! Share them in comments...

Have a good one,

Emily

Photos from Style.com