Isaac Mizrahi
The king of real-world chic shares his tips and award-winning flair in a colorful guidebook designed to unleash each woman’s inner fashionista.
A twenty-year veteran of the fashion industry, Isaac Mizrahi has become a distinguishable icon in the world of style. He doesn’t do “makeovers” or take pleasure in berating the way a woman dresses. Instead, he is a problem solver—and a titan of trendsetting who believes that fashion ought to be seriously fun. Showcasing his singular approach to looking great, How to Have Style begins with the premise that all women must wear what inspires them. Using twelve real women facing real wardrobe dilemmas, Mizrahi walks readers through the fundamentals of finding a personal style that reflects their authentic selves. Other features include:
• A personal fashion questionnaire and how to create an inspiration board that unlocks the mysteries to person style
• Hundreds of fashion tips on everything from clothes and accessaries to expert counsel on skin care and makeup to mixing patterns and wearing color
• How to become a gatherer rather of just a shopper
Dubbed a “one-man brand” by BusinessWeek, Mizrahi shares his style rules on everything from boots to bags, from skirt length to the right undergarments. With more than 400 dazzling photographs as well as Mizrahi’s own sketches, How to Have Style makes it simple to look your best.
From Publishers WeeklyClothing architect Mizrahi, current originative conductor for Liz Claiborne and a semi-regular television personality, presents a finish style guide in 12 case studies, meant to address complex mental states and budgets as well as size, shape and age. Looking at twelve women stuck in a fashion rut, Mizrahi tailors his approach to the specific needs of each (“When Traveling on Business,” “Reinvent Yourself,” “Be Funny and Sexy,” “Wake up from a Jeans Coma”) while drawing out universal lessons and inspiration for readers. While a good deal of of his bon mots are rather simple (“A girl may do and say anything she wants when she looks like a lady”), the makeovers themselves, captured in a good deal of photographs and laid out in clear, clutter-free spreads, are the real testament to his wizardry. A routine that includes crafting an inspiration board and filling out Mizrahi’s questionnaire, making the investment of time and energy (“you have to undertake on lots and lots of clothes”), and profiting the confidence:. “Know when a peculiar style doesn’t work for you and pass on it. Confidence and knowing what’s right for you is 95 percent of style.” This chic, easy-to-use guide must make readers more knowing and confident.
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About the AuthorIsaac Mizrahi has received awards from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, including two “Designer of the Year” awards, and a particular award for the documentary Unzipped. In 2003, he revolutionized the industry by teaming with Target to fabricate women’s fashions and accessaries and home furnishings. He most not so long ago became the originative conductor for the Liz Claiborne brand, whose CEO, William McComb, said “Isaac is the pied piper of women over thirty-five” on making the appointment.
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44 of 46 humans found the following review helpful.
 Love this book!
By Assunta Sciarretta
If your girlfriends were to come around Trick-or-Treating, this is what you’d want to drop into their goodie bags!
Mizrahi’s book is candy for the eyes. There are so a good deal of pictures – full color, not just sketches, on shiny pages. Plus, this book is both fun and informative. There is a sure richness, breadth and depth to the information, not similar to a lot of the style books out there. Mizrahi’s writing is a love letter to women. His approach is dissimilar from some stylists, who seem to only provide guidelines for dressing like themselves.
In this book, Mizrahi takes 12 women of varying ages – 20′s to 50′s – and body types, and transforms them into better versions of themselves. It’s aweinspiring how the women all seem to become more bright and alive. Mizrahi does not dilute their personalities, either. Instead, he enhances them, e.g. the quirky woman wears a thick Russian fur hat; the shopaholic learns how to combine all her prints; the plus-size woman becomes an alluring femme fatale; the socialite stops playing it safe and dons couture.
What I in truth love is that because Mizrahi has the credentials and the expertise, he doesn’t limit himself to the same tried-and-true fashion rules. He’s sort of a Picasso of fashion. One blonde professional in the book comes to him with the safe, suitable honey-blonde hair, and he transforms her with color – both by lightening her hair to a bold platinum (she then looks like Kim Novak) and moving her away from safe black to colors that heighten her features.
Mizrahi instructs the reader as to how she may be unfeigned to herself and yet break out of her own rut through the use of an inspiration board, a wide list of resources, and a helpful style workbook.
This veritably is a guide to personal style. (The pictures of Mizrahi all around the book are in truth cute, too!)
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Five star style
By Charlie
I’ve always thought my wife as being stylish. I was browsing through a bookstore, and How to Have Style caught my eye. I thought she might take delight in it, and not be insulted or do me bodily harm. Much to my delight (and relief)she devoured the book from cover to cover and back again, telling me how it’s given her completely new perceptivities into putting an outfit together, and how to shop. I commend this book as a great gift.
20 of 22 persons found the following review helpful.
Quintessential & Essential
By V. X. KIRSCH
I have been waiting for this book for a heap of time. Isaac Mizrahi has “made over” the style counsel book genre. How perceptive of him to support each reader grasp that style comes from within. He advocates thinking things out when it come to formulating a personal style. Think before you shop! Brilliant! The book is full of fantastic advice. It looks great. It is full of clever details. I love having his handwriting on the pages of the book.
As I said it is an necessary book on your way to getting your quintessential self!
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