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Always pack a party dress : and other lessons learned from a (half) life in fashion / Amanda Brooks.

by Brooks, Amanda.

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New York : Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, c2015.

Brooks, Amanda.

Brooks, Amanda -- Philosophy.

Women fashion designers -- United States -- Biography.

Fashion designers -- United States -- Biography.

Fashion design -- New York (State) -- New York.

Conduct of life.

9780399170836 (pbk.)

299 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 23 cm

Where I'm coming from -- Always pack a party dress -- A long walk is the best way to clear your head -- How commitment to the man of my dreams set me free to be a fashion chameleon -- Take the things you most love to do on weekends and turn that into your career -- When a rock star asks for your phone number, he doesn't just want to be your friend -- Try anything that grabs your attention, you gotta start somewhere! -- Mistakes are okay, as long as you learn from them -- Fake it 'til you make it -- The Met ball can induce the highest highs (a "wow" from Anna Wintour) and the lowest lows (arriving in a beat-up minivan) -- When you are stuck, ask someone you admire what they see for you -- I have always spent too much money on clothes, and it has always been worth it (until it wasn't) -- "All women need a good dose of humility from time to time." -DVF -- Rejection is a mandatory rest stop along the road to success -- Of all the places in the world to fall apart, I never thought it would happen in Paris -- Sometimes you just have to start from scratch -- A year on the farm: making jam is the best revenge.

"Amanda Brooks, author of the bestselling I Love Your Style, shares her personal stories, and sartorial highs and lows, from a life in fashion, with beautiful, eclectic, and inspired photographs throughout"--

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