Product Description: On the heels of the fabulously successful Lucky Shopping Manual comes the complete handbook for creating a great look based on ten iconic styles —packed with more than 450 color images.
With a circulation of 1.1 million, Lucky magazine has taken America’s most dedicated shoppers by storm, offering real-world advice and first-rate finds. Now the Lucky experts show how to put it all together in an inspiring collection of ideas that go beyond the basics and yield endless innovation for year-round reinvention.
Based on the techniques used by fashion designers for years, The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style features ten versatile archetypes that can be customized to fit varying moods, personalities, and body types. Applying these enduring styles to a dazzling spectrum of possibilities, The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style deconstructs each look, with components including clothes, shoes, accessories, patterns, and colors. Just as designers use swatches and images to spark creativity, readers will have access to hundreds of photographs from style setters. Must-haves for every closet, foolproof instructions, profiles of real-life Lucky Girls, and money-saving Lucky Breaks make this the indispensable resource for complete chic.
Lucky! Firstly, I love the magazine, so this purchase was a nobrainer. The book itself contains so many ideas and how to really pare down your closet to the essentials, while still maintaining some trendy items. I just think that this is a really great guide and I'd recommend it, certainly, along with Shop Your Closet: The Ultimate Guide to Organizing Your Closet with Style.
G O O D.....B U T....I....K N O W...O F....S O M E T H I N G.....B E T T E R !!!! THIS LOOKS TO BE AN EXCELLENT BOOK FOR THE PRICE! HOWEVER, IF ONE REALLY WANTS TO LOOK TOTALLY, EQUISITELY, ELEGANTLY, WONDERFULLY FASHIONABLE....IN A Very up-to-date and modern manner, I suggest that, instead, one should get a subscription to ROYALTY Magazine! You not only get pictures of today's royals, (from all countries!), wearing the very best and highest fashions, (even, sometimes, incredibly, JEANS!), available today, you also get news of what royals are doing, interesting "All Our Yesterdays" features on royals of the past, a wonderful selection of royal books one can buy, (at extra cost, of course), and a chance to send letters to the editor!
And, of course, viewing these photos, one can try to emulate the royal fashions....toned-down, perhaps, in colour and style, (Royals must wear very bright colours so they will stand out in a crowd, and they can usually afford all the tucks and graceful swirls that come with time and labour-intensive tailoring....but, it's possible to look for and/or so similar garments, with slightly darker colours and a few less stitches -- but the royal garments DO give one ideas -- and inspiration!)
A subscription to this sublime, yet totally "with it", publication may cost more than this -- or almost any -- book...but is certainly worth it, in my own estimation. I CERTAINLY HOPE THAT 'ROYALTY' MAGAZINE MIGHT BE AVAILABLE ON AMAZON, SOON! In the meantime, "The Lucky Guide To Mastering Any Style" is a very good style-start!
Limited despite the numerous iconic styles I loved the first Style Guide, couldn't believe how often I picked it up and loved on both the collections and individuals they highlighted. The idea of a follow-up with iconic style was inspired.
From the beginning though when I received the second Style Guide I felt disappointment, rarely looked at the book and it took me awhile to figure out why. Here's the deal:
It suffers from same problem Lucky Magazine has now, the fashion voice has become monochromatic. Love fringe, tanks, ragamuffin layers, long sleek legs with balloony tops, sculptural jewelry, a bit of death glam or hippy or an over the top quality, even for the office outfits? No matter what the look, every style or 'style icon' including American Classic, has Andrea Linnett's funky, quirky quality shining through. This wasn't true in the first book. She does that style very well but it's taken over their work and has limits.
Where is Kim's more elegant, classic voice in all of this?
Even with all the high drama in the iconic clothes, this book is weirdly easy to glance through once or twice and put aside.
I love those two ladies, they're a great team and have accomplished a lot together but I think some of the creative tension has been lost.
Jim Herrin's review from www.thejaneellen.com Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style: Creating Iconic Looks and Making Them Your Own
by Kim France and Andrea Linett
Lucky is a relatively new women's magazine (new when compared to Cosmo or Vanity Fair) and its appeal, or so Jane tells me, is it not only shows you how to dress a certain way, it can get you that look at a discount, or for free. Thus, you can get luck by subscribing to Lucky. Gimmicky, but it works. The magazine isn't all ads like Vogue, it's actual information. And that's what this book sets out to be. It doesn't just show you a rocker look, it breaks it down. Who are the iconic female rockers, bombshells, American classics, bohemians? Is this how you want to dress? Well, then these are the styles of clothes you should look for. And they don't just show Marilyn Monroe, Audrey and Katharine Hepburn, and Debbie Harry, they bring these looks right up to the publishing date of October 2008. No matter what age the female is who is getting this book they are bound to appreciate it. Jane made me go through the whole thing because she bought it for two of our nieces. It breaks down the styles to shoes and accessories too. And Jane made a discovery about herself. Everyone always tells her she looks like Marilyn Monroe. It's the hair. Not a big surprise. And when she gets dressed up, that classic Hollywood bombshell look is what she favors. There isn't a faux fur or opera glove or feather that Jane doesn't have or want. However, after reading this book herself, Jane found that her everyday look is that of rock'n'roll chic. Well, I knew the bride when she used to rock'n'roll. And she still does. Nothing will make her throw away her leather belts, skinny jeans, ripped t-shirts and Chuck Taylors. And now that a fashion book says it's OK, there's no stopping her.
Not for everyone I have to say I like this book. I do admit that it is not as good as the first. This book is not as much of shopping guide as the first book is. I still, however, enjoyed it. The book defines different styles such as; mod, gamine, etc. At the end there is a section that shows a combination of the different styles. They did a good job of defining and explaining different styles. I know a little more about fashion than I did before I read it.
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