num_pages: 304
description: Author of the bestselling I Love Your Style Amanda Brooks shares her personal stories and sartorial highs and lows from a life in fashion with beautiful eclectic and inspired photographs throughout.In the past twenty years Brooks has created a unique place for herself in the fashion world. She spent the early years of her career as a photo assistant for Patrick Demarchelier a gallerina at the Gagosian Gallery and at various fashion posts before finding her dream job as fashion director for Barneys New York. Along the wayand wearing more than a few of the outfits weve all regretted at one point or anotherBrooks discovered the key to creating her personal style combining influences as wide-ranging as childhood prep school Grateful Dead concerts contemporary artists pop culture and her current home outside of the fashion bubble a well-worn farmhouse she shares with her family (and a host of animals) in the English countryside.In Always Pack a Party Dress Brooks recalls her early career aspirations and explores the evolution of her own personal style along with stories of successes and failures alike as well as fashion and beauty tips and inspiring photographs. A must-read for high fashion or street style aficionados and gorgeously produced gift book Brooks shares her expertise and insider view with warm candid and often witty prose.
language: English
title: Always Pack a Party Dress: And Other Lessons Learned From a (Half) Life in Fashion
publisher: Blue Rider Press