Truth About Style: Stacy London
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Truth About Style: Stacy London

 

Stacy London

Stacy London. Time for a book review! For a while now I have been searching around for some inspirations, hence my trek around the city to bring you some of the sparklies that Vancouver has to offer. Well on the weekend I downloaded, The Truth About Style by Stacy London (Published by Viking Adult). I’ve always admired her no-nonsense straightforwardness and thought this would be the perfect piece to support my new resolutions!

Well since I don’t have a hard copy of the book you all get a lovely picture of my ipad…..As an aside, while I love the look, feel and smell of a new book the ipad is so convenient and best of all I can take my favourite reads with me wherever I go!

Back to the book. It delivers. Period. As many of you, I have looked through hundreds of fashion and style books (not to mention magazines) some were great, some not so great. This one is different. It’s a bit of an extension of What Not To Wear because she takes 8 real women and makes them over. In this case, however, she includes herself as the 9th and takes the standard makeover one step further. This book is a group of personal stories. There is no list of what you have to have in your closet, instead it delves deeper into why we make the choices we make and how to change our psyche to adopt a new outlook. I bought the deluxe version which includes mini videos of each woman as well as Stacy herself. Notice I just used Stacy’s name because after reading this I feel like I know her. I could easily relate to each woman’s body issues and Stacy London speaks so candidly about her own, that she is no longer a tv icon, she’s a great friend I can just call up. Best of all this is done with a sense of humor (which I believe is the way we should all approach fashion. Taking yourself seriously never, ever works in the long run).  Each chapter ends with a Yes!……And? Where she basically dismisses all those excuses we all love use every day and you realize that maybe just maybe every now and then you need a good smack upside the head!

So if you are in a bit of a style rut, looking to change things up or just want some inspiration this is definitely your go to read and will be for years to come!

Is Stacy London one of your style icons?

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28 Comments

  1. Fashion Tag (Dana Cristina)

    wow i love her!!!!! I need to get this book & ur review was just the right thing to make me get it, i swear. I’m happy she delivers and the book fits her ‘what u see is what u get’ style she’s got, and is not out there as a lame excuse behind a name. xox

    1. Gulp! No pressure. Seriously I really did enjoy it, it’s more like hanging with a friend than some ‘expert’ telling me I need to have xy and z in my closet. Her life story is pretty cool too. Now with your amazing comment and my review…we need to get on her radar!

      1. Fashion Tag (Dana Cristina)

        haha! stalking time!!! lol (joking) but seriously now if she’s on fb or twitter you could share your review. it’s quite a common practice (hell I’ve done it myself a couple of times). the worst that can happen is… nothing. so go for it girl! 🙂 xx

        1. Done and done! I’ve actually gotten fairly decent responses before so lets see if she responds…

          1. Fashion Tag (Dana Cristina)

            oooooh…… fingers crossed!!!! xx

          2. Apparently according to my new friend Stacy I totally ‘get’ it! (I’m going to use that on a resume one day)

  2. vintagefrenchchic

    Thank you for the review. I will have to think about adding this to my chic/style book collection.

    1. It’s a good one!

  3. great review! i used to watch what not to wear 🙂

    http://www.counttofour.com

    1. Thanks! Me too!

  4. Thanks for the reminder, I was so excited to hear about Stacy’s book and forgot to keep checking for it to pop up as a Kindle ebook!!

    1. If you can spend the extra $4 for the deluxe edition. Yes it’s a total editor money grab but in this case the videos are pretty decent.

  5. I wanna read it!
    Thanks to share it hun!
    Xxx

    Carolina

    http://www.the-world-c.blogspot.com

    1. I hope you like it!

  6. Thanks for the book review babe!

    >>>>> milna89.blogspot.com <<<<<<

    1. My pleasure!

  7. I enjoy reading. I will def check it out thank you for sharing:)

    http://www.thefashionhive.com

    1. Woohoo! I seriously hope everyone likes this….

  8. Im definitely going to check this book out. I’ve been looking for some new inspiration lately, and looks like this might to the trick 🙂

    Shenita

    1. It’s good. I could connect with a lot of what she was saying.

  9. LifeAndBows (@LifeAndBows)

    I have to check out the book. I used to watch the show all the time!!
    XO,
    Zhanna
    http://www.lifeandbows.com

    1. I really enjoyed it. I’ll be curious to know if you all agree with me…..

  10. Sounds really good, I think I’ll read it in Christmas vacation :)!

    :***

  11. Good to hear that there’s humor in her book, I really do miss that in other fashion books sometimes!
    http://www.thisgirlneversleeps.blogspot.com

    1. I know. She has that bit of self deprecating sarcasm…I love it!

  12. Thank you, think I’ll put it on my Christmas list!

  13. Suus (@3rdonthe10th)

    Sounds like a great book! I could definitely use some inspiration so I think I’ll ask Santa to bring me one 🙂

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