Always Pack a Party Dress is a must-read for high-fashion or street-style aficionados, and a source of inspiration to return to again and again.
Amanda Brooks is the author of I Love Your Style: How to Define and Refine Your Personal Style and Always Pack a Party Dress: And Other Lessons Learned From a (Half) Life in Fashion. She has written for the T: The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and Men's Vogue, where she wrote the popular online column "In Her Eyes." The former fashion director of Barney’s New York and creative director of Tuleh, she has appeared as a fashion expert on Today, The Early Show, and NPR. She lives with her husband and their two children in Oxfordshire, England.
“Amanda Brooks is one of those rare birds—perfectly imperfect, not
overly considered, impossibly real and humble. While flipping
through the pages of this book, I realized her style is just that:
her style.”—Jenna Lyons
“Amanda Brooks is innately chic. Her new book is as smart and
original as she is.” —Tory Burch
“Amanda Brooks is one of the best-dressed women I know, and she
maintains a wonderful sense of humor about style. She understands
the ins and outs of the fashion and the industry, yet doesn’t let
them dictate who she is. She’s inspiring and unique, and I’m so
happy that she shares what she’s learned in this book!”—Garance
Doré
“For young women who want to work in the world of fashion and
beauty, or anyone who simply just loves it, Amanda’s book is the
dream-come-true told with sweetness and honesty.”—Delia Ephron
“From the pages of Vogue to the front rows of Paris to her current
country-girl home in rural England, Amanda Brooks’s exciting life
has encompassed the full sartorial spectrum. In Always Pack a Party
Dress, clothes become the outer reflection of the private inner
world, and her wise and practical meditations on style are really
metaphors for how to live authentically and well.”—Amy Astley
“As someone who knows all too well the adrenaline-charged fashion
scene from New York to Paris and beyond, as well as the simple joys
of home and family life, I relished every page of Always Pack a
Party Dress. Amanda beautifully untangles and analyzes all aspects
of her twenty years in fashion, an act as thoughtful and generous
as it is inspiring.”—Laura Bailey
“Amanda Brooks is the true American glamour girl! In her must-read
book she offers candid style and career advice and, just as
important, shows readers that a sense of humor and self-discovery
is much more gratifying than striving for perfection.”—Diane von
Furstenberg
“A fashion maven shares her secrets….[readers] will find much
useful advice in this bright and breezy confection….Filled with
tips on hair, makeup, nails, lips, shopping, packing, and smiling
for photographs, this book will thrill readers for whom Christian
Louboutin is a household god."—Kirkus
“[T]his colorful, savvy volume covers material from why women
should always know how to do their own hair to how to set up a
consulting business.”—Women's Wear Daily
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