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• The Book of Styling

  An Insider's Guide to Creating Your Own Look

  Flaherty, Somer

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  The Book of Styling contains advice on fashion, including sections on fashion icons and American style, being a professional stylist, and fashion emergencies.

• Essential Fashion Illustration

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  This book's aim is to submerge the reader in the world of illustration. The first section ranges from how to start to draw a human figure to the techniques to stylize and synthesize it.

• Fashion 101

  a Crash Course in Clothing

  Stalder, Erika

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  Fashion 101 offers you a crash course on learning how to put together smarter looks, and how to become a fashion expert in the process.

• The Fashion Careers Guidebook

  Yates, Julia

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  The Fashion Careers Guidebook focuses on every career in the fashion industry, and provides important information on how to get in.

• Fashion Design Drawing Course

  Principles, Practice, and Techniques : the Ultimate Guide for the Aspiring Fashion Artist

  Tatham, Caroline

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  In this book you will find twenty step-by-step exercises that cover methods of finding inspiration, developing observation techniques, and creating fashion drawings in both color and black-and-white media.

• The Fashion Designer Survival Guide

  An Insider's Look at Starting and Running Your Own Fashion Business

  Gehlhar, Mary

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  Industry expert reveals secrets to a successful fashion career.

• Fashion Illustration Now

  Borrelli-Persson, Laird

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  This smart, sophisticated, trendsetting book showcases the work of 29 of the world's top fashion illustrators, an international galaxy of talent whose evocative illustrations often seem to define what is hip and contemporary.

• Fierce Style

  How to Be Your Most Fabulous Self

  Siriano, Christian

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  Christian Siriano, winner of Project Runway, shares his journey of developing his own fashion sense and overcoming obstacles to success.

• #Girlboss

  Amoruso, Sophia

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  Sophia Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dumpster diving. Now, she's the Founder, CEO and Creative Director of Nasty Gal, a $100+ million online fashion retailer with over 350 employees.

• An Illustrated History of Fashion

  500 Years of Fashion Illustration

  Mackrell, Alice

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  An Illustrated History of Fashion reveals a new perspective on familiar artists from Durer to Man Ray, providing a fascinating and authoritative look at the history of dress.

• In Fashion

  From Runway to Retail, Everything You Need to Know to Break Into the Fashion Industry

  Iverson, Annemarie

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  If you've ever dreamed of working at "Vogue," photographing supermodels, or outfitting celebrities, "In Fashion" will equip you with everything you need to know to get an "in" into fashion.

• Lauren Conrad Style

  Conrad, Lauren

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  In this bestselling style guide, Lauren offers tips on how to create your own unique look, shares her favorite sources of inspiration, and identifies the absolute must-haves for any fashionista's wardrobe.

• The Little Dictionary of Fashion

  a Guide to Dress Sense for Every Woman

  Dior, Christian

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  Fashion designer Christian Dior reveals the secrets of style in this charming handbook that no woman should be without.

• The Sartorialist

  Schuman, Scott

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  Through his lens, photographer Scott Schuman, captures well-known fashion figures alongside people encountered on the street whose personal style and taste demand a closer look.

• The Teen Vogue Handbook

  An Insider's Guide to Careers in Fashion

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  A compendium of career advice and tips from an assortment of fashion superstars, up-and-comers, designers, and more.