Amanda Brooks at Tory Burch Store

Amanda Brooks “I Love Your Style”
at Tory Burch Store
256 Greenwich Avenue
December 12, 2009
 2:00pm-4:00pm

From talented and inventive designer muse and fashion consultant Amanda Brooks comes an elegant and accessible style guide that will inspire women to dive into the everyday challenge of defining, or refining, their personal style.

Praise for Amanda Brooks and I love your style
“The book’s tone achieves that tricky balance between cool insider and your most trusted friend, and that it does so is all due to Brooks’s clever, witty, and clear responses to that thorny old question: What is your personal style?” – Vogue
“Fashion is a mysterious thing to express, but if anyone is qualified to write a book on style, Amanda is.” – Diane Von Furstenberg from the book’s forward “In this wonderfully wise book, Amanda Brooks reveals the style secrets of unexpectedly elegant, singular women from all walks of life. It’s candid, canny and cool, much like brooks herself.” – Anna Wintour

Amanda brooks is a lifelong fashion chameleon with an unerring eye for the elements of personal style. A vogue.com columnist and former muse and creative director for designer label Tuleh, Brooks has written a fashion guide for the ages – “I Love Your Style” (It books; on sale: September 15, 2009; trade paperback, $19.99 us; isbn: 9780061833120). Incorporating her classic roots, bohemian flair, taste for designer luxuries, and love for bargains everywhere, she helps women of all ages begin to cull through the frighteningly vast world of fashion, from its staid basics to its trendiest moments.

“I Love Your Style” is a sumptuous full-color look-book and style bible, complete with more than 400 candid images that will introduce readers to a dazzling array of style options. Highlighting the icons of yesterday and the innovators of today and tomorrow, brooks walks readers through every angle of the fashion world, from the basic pieces and accessories that define a style to the small details, combinations, and adaptations that can make it their own.

Brooks guides her readers through six distinct and essential style types:
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Classic
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Bohemian
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Minimal
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High fashion
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Street
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Eclectic

Then she shows them how to cultivate a style that fits their budget, age, body, and lifestyle. “I Love Your Style” encourages everyone to take risks, make mistakes, and to stop worrying about “fashion don’ts.”
With its focus on embracing creativity, personal history, originality, and the freedom to pick and choose aspects from any distinct style, “I Love Your Style” is a must-read for the budding fashionista, or anyone who finds herself frustrated in front of the mirror each morning.

Amanda Brooks is a fashion consultant who has written about style for New York Times Magazine, Vogue, vogue.com, and Men’s Vogue, where she wrote the popular online column “In Her Eyes.” currently a regular columnist for vogue.com, Brooks was the former muse and creative director of Tuleh, and has appeared as a fashion expert on Today, The Early Show and National Public Radio. She lives with her husband and two children in New York City and Oxfordshire, England.

“I Love Your Style: How to Define and Refine Your Personal Style”
By Amanda Brooks
Trade paperback, $19.99; isbn 9780061833120
On sale: September 15, 2009 from It books