Dress Like a Parisian: Alois Guinut
£12.50£16.10 (-22%)
Dress Like a Parisian is a wise and witty guide to finding your personal style, taking inspiration from how real Parisian women dress. With personal stylist and fashion blogger Aloïs Guinut as your guide, you can explore which colours, shapes and styles work best for you, whatever the occasion. Aloïs reveals Parisian style secrets, rejects restrictive fashion rules and shares her favourite shops and brands, demonstrating how you can use fashion to enhance your personality rather than shaping your personality to fashion. In the words of the patron saint of Parisian women, Yves St. Laurent, ‘fashions fade, style is eternal.’
This book is illustrated with photography shot on the streets of Paris plus illustrations by acclaimed fashion illustrator, Judith van den Hoek, who has worked with Elle, Hermes, Vogue, Prada and Grazia.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Mitchell Beazley, Illustrated edition (5 April 2018) |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 240 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1784724181 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1784724184 |
| Dimensions | 16 x 2.67 x 21.72 cm |
by Megan Ruth Kelly
Worth the price as this book is filled with tons of tips! Includes pictures to illustrate points made and it’s overall very easy to understand
by Amazon Customer
I liked the detail – describes all the items of clothes and accessories – coats, jeans, belts, gloves, shirts etc and ideas on what style to buy. Also describes colours and how to wear them, and what to wear to disguise problem areas. Nice touches of humour eg wearing three bright colours = hello clown! There are quite a lot of photos but to me quite a lot of the women did not look particularly stylish, and it would have been helpful in places to have more pictures or drawings to show what was described in the text. The take home message I got was you must look as if you are not trying too hard (even though a lot of effort may have gone into the process) – so don’t put everything on show, wear a lot of neutrals that go together easily and maybe add a pop of colour (but no clowns please) and not too much matching colours. Yes in the photos some of the models had some truly gruesome colour combinations – and a whole lot of mismatched pieces so they definitely had taken a lot of time to make quite sure it looked like that they had got dressed in the morning with no thought at all. That seems to be not particularly a Parisian style but the modern way of dressing and the author notes that Parisian grandmothers used to take great care in matching the details of their outfits. I can agree that too much matchy-matchy makes it look that you are trying too hard and is a bit twee – but I would think some matchy matchy is quite chic – and Guinut notes says you can choose to follow or break away from her tips so I will take some and leave others. Lots of food for thought though and quite a lot of detail. Overall I think this is a good book.
by Mrs Nina Macfie
My French daughter in law, scoffs at the idea that Parisiennes are naturally chic. But the kicker is that she herself has an innate air of insouciance and would look elegant in a bin liner! Can we Brits learn to do this? If we study this charming book, that seems a good start. Alois analyses French style in a very accessible way and I’m trying out lots of her advice. Some of the outfits pictured are a bit bizarre, and it would have helped to have a few more models who were not so tall and willowy (because they look good in anything) but overall it’s a great read – over a cafe crème and a croissant, non?
by Vivi
I did not learn anything new from this book. The book is easy to read but not extraordinary in its esthetics
or witty writing. If you have never read any book on a similar subject, it may be worthwhile. If you want either fresh new lessons or entertained, maybe not.
by Avai Rajendra
70% style given, however, the book shouldn’t really recommend what colours not to wear, it is giving in to the Nazi’s and how jeans you should wear, again giving in to war.
by Andreia Pereira
Good for inspiration.
by Kay2020
Easy to read. Nice pictures
by Ruth Crofts
Found this book to be interesting froma style perspective and up to date (2018) at time of review. I am an established stylist with over 100 style books and this one will be on my recommended list.