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A Life of Style: Fashion, Home, Entertaining [Hardcover]

Rebecca Moses
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Book Description

August 23, 2010
Style is a reflection of who we are, where we come from, and what we have experienced—the good, the bad, and the indifferent. It is what makes us into the unique beings that we are.

Star fashion designer Rebecca Moses has devoted herself to crafting chic garments for stylish women world-wide. Underpinning her years of innovative design has been a series of questions: What is style? How does it evolve? And what can we do to develop our own style? A Life of Style  provides the answers. Consisting entirely of Moses’s inventive watercolors, which incorporate witty words of wisdom distilled from personal experience, A Life of Style encourages readers to draw upon and develop their innate style—traditional or modern, conservative or radical—and especially to cultivate the confidence to express themselves.

Rebecca Moses offers a style journey that is at once informative and imaginative. She persuades readers to listen to themselves and their instincts, to open their minds to new ways of thinking, and above all to search for inspiration. Once the style mind is engaged, she turns to fashion and beauty (“Don’t forget: We wear our clothes—they don’t wear us”), the home (“Creating a home is creating a world of your own”), and entertaining (“The best gift of all is the gift of relaxation and great pleasure”). Above all, says Moses, style is personal communication at its most profound, most ingenious, most original.

Style is not skin deep. It is soul deep. It is our most significant form of expression. It is how we communicate who we are to the world around us. It is our voice.

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Editorial Reviews

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"Colorful bangles, Pucci head scarves, and eccentrically upholstered Louis XIV chairs all pop off the pages of A Life of Style . . . lush chronicle."
—Vogue

"Both playful and thoughtful, Rebecca Moses brings a wonderfully light touch to her serious sense of style." — Anna Wintour

"Rebecca Moses’s A Life of Style is a charming personal analysis of that most elusive of gifts . . . style . . . and of how mysterious and captivating true style really is. Rebecca’s passion for all things design and her talent for illustration make this book a unique voyage into the life of a passionate devotee of the art of living!" — Vera Wang

"Thank goodness for Rebecca Moses new book, A Life of Style. When you're blue, this is the kind of book you need to read. Fashion designer Moses is a natural to write a book about style, or rather, a life of style."
—The Peak of Chic

"A Life of Style has engagingly quirky watercolors surrounded by words of wisdom, phrases and sayings that will capture you instantly."
—The Daily Basics

"Fashion, interior decorating, entertaining – they're all closely related, and no one knows this better than designer and style guru, Rebecca Moses. Her new book, A Life of Style, celebrates all three in a charming collection of inspiring quotes, helpful tips and whimsical illustrations."
- Laura Flanagan, About.com: Interior Decorating

"Live and breathe a life of style? Let fashion designer and (who knew) beautiful watercolorist Rebecca Moses walk you through her colorful primer that prompts the rhetorical question, “What is style?” then proceeds to answer it with clever and really very wise musings on how we can develop that innate sense of style that lies in each and every one of us."
- Paper City Mag.com

About the Author

Artist and designer Rebecca Moses is perhaps best known for her eponymous fashion label. She also designs the Rebecca Moses Heart Soul Style fashion and home collections. This is her first book.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: The Monacelli Press; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition (August 23, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1580932932
  • ISBN-13: 978-1580932936
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.9 x 10 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,369 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW! Rebecca Moses is Smart, Funny and Wise August 31, 2010
Format:Hardcover
This is a warm, wonderful, insightful book on living life - not just a stylish life - that gives a smart, FUNNY, heartfelt perspective to what many of us perceive as the elusive: having real style. Rebecca Moses blew me away not only with her amazing illustrations but with her wit and down-to-earth approach to understanding that fashion and stylish living is more than a superficial exercise but a wonderful way to share yourself and your world with others. I never expected to stumble upon such an uplifting, empowering, and positive manifest amidst her quirky and clever drawings. I wanted to jump into her colorful world and hang out with her funny, stylish characters who embrace themselves and their imperfections with confidence; who eat pasta at midnight and entertain their friends at home with passion; who go to black ties with the same clothes they ski in; who adore King Louis and know their "signature doesn't always need to be written in ink." I LOVED her illustrated recap of her life at the beginning of the book. Who knew that such stylish thinking would have been seeded in NJ? There is wisdom and a philosophy in these pages that you would not expect to find in a "fashion" book. The premise of the book is her insight to the perennial struggle of mastering a stylish life that many of us face, but my take away is she is really encouraging us to live the life we want in living color. BRAVO! I am buying this for all my friends who appreciate stylish living and especially for those who don't.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Life of Style, is a Life worth living! September 13, 2010
Format:Hardcover
A Life of Style is an original, inventive, humorous and courageous book. Not only is the drawing masterful, the message is too.
Rebecca Moses channels her own love of fashion and art into an original but accessible vision. She has put a lifetime
of her love of fashion and style into every page. My favorite page?-even though its so hard to choose- "Never judge a style by
its cover". The drawing is so wonderful with those bracelets and earrings glittering and the two views of life residing in the
glasses. Plus the sentiment is perfect. I would give it as a gift to anyone who appreciates wonderful drawing and dressing up.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply AMAZING. December 23, 2010
By moon
Format:Hardcover
I am not someone who writes book reviews, and I have read enough "guide to style" type books to not bat an eyelash every time a style advice themed book comes out... But whoa. Let me just say that reading this book is like going through a glorious labyrinth where every nook and cranny NEEDS to be explored and delightfully digested. The writing is profound, hilarious, and dripping with a coquettish-yet-edgy wit of a kind you can't quite put your finger on. The sheer beauty of the illustrations, the shockingly fresh color combinations that jump out at you from every corner of every page...
For anyone who has ever thought that paying attention to personal style and aesthetic expression is a frivolous pursuit, Rebecca Moses WILL convince you otherwise...
This book is a feast for the eyes and soul. Seriously. It takes several minutes to dwell on each illustration, each page, and there are so many surprises along the way... an amazing buy.
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