A guide to creating and maintaining a personal style covers shopping, improving posture, finding the right fit of your clothing, and choosing accessories.

A lavishly illustrated display of celebrity fashion encompasses seventy-five years of Oscar glamour and glitter, capturing in more than five hundred photographs the stunning gowns, outrageous fashion mistakes, and risky statements, all in honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Academy Awards. 50,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

The author describes growing up in a traditional Somali family and her fulfillment as a humanitarian

A chic volume devoted to the career of one of the brightest, most successful and imitated international designers. In a 20-year career, Marc Jacobs has soared from whiz-kid extraordinaire and the toast of New York s Parsons School of Design to one of the brightest, most successful, and most imitated international designers of our time. His is a story of passion, dogged determination, countless obstacles, and a firm belief in style as a major cultural barometer. But most of all, his is a story of fashion s limitless potential to delight. The ultimate hip designer, Marc Jacobs has achieved that status not via expressions of angst or outrage but by celebrating fashion as a mirror on life s gleeful ironies. He finds charm in awkwardness as well as glamour and inspiration in bad girls, good girls, and all-out geeks. This book is a wonderful soiree to which everyone is invited.

The world of fashion is inundated with an apparently endless list of rules. Some consider these to be valuable words of wisdom, whereas others perceive them to be mere restrictions imposed by the fashion police. Never Leave the House Naked presents a list of inspirational or delusional fashion jargon for the world to judge.

You don't have to be a fashionista or a design aficionado to adore this fascinating look at the power of one dress to change society. Join the Design Museum, the world's leading museum in contemporary design, on a guided tour of the 50 most important dresses in social history and design. Filled with pages of beautiful clothes, and the famous faces (and bodies) that put them on the world stage -including Wallis Simpson, Jackie Kennedy, Twiggy and Cher and, of course, Princess Di-this fun volume shares fascinating appraisals of what gave the 50 most important garments their iconic status.

A complete collection of painted swimsuit photographs from Sports Illustrated's popular swimsuit issue captures the magnificent optical illlusions created by makeup artist Joanne Gare and the magazine's noted photographers, along with essays, stories, and columns that look at the history of body painting and its Sports Illustrated incarnations. 50,000 first printing.

A lighthearted history of the cocktail dress and its role in the fashion industry features photographs from a wide range of sources from fine art and films to vintage magazine covers and designer illustrations, in a volume that explores the garment's endless variations and accessories.