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Style and Decadence
The people and places who make fashion, beauty, and style oh-so chic.
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Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography
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3.44 avg rating — 287 ratings
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The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York
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3.62 avg rating — 3,809 ratings
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Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age
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3.74 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Chanel's Riviera: Peace and War on The Côte d’Azur
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3.67 avg rating — 1,561 ratings
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The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe
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3.79 avg rating — 4,785 ratings
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The World of Gloria Vanderbilt
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3.96 avg rating — 191 ratings
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The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me
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3.75 avg rating — 347 ratings
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Jacqueline Kennedy, The White House Years: Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library & Museum
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4.53 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Grace Kelly Style: Fashion for Hollywood's Princess
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4.08 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Yves Saint Laurent
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3.88 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
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3.52 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Jean Patou: A Fashionable Life
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4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Lillian Bassman: Women
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Deborah Solomon (Goodreads Author)
4.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 72,
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Cecil Beaton: The Art of the Scrapbook
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4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Time Exposure
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion
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4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Balenciaga
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4.22 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Charles James: Beyond Fashion (Metropolitan Museum of Art
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4.64 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Roger Vivier
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Debutantes: When Glamour was Born
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4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Paris 1962: Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior, The Early Collections
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3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
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Charlotte Mosley (Editor)
4.11 avg rating — 3,212 ratings
score: 63,
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Authentic French Fashions of the Twenties: 413 Costume Designs from "L'Art Et La Mode"
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JoAnne Olian (Editor)
4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 63,
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Cristóbal Balenciaga: The Making of a Master (1895-1936)
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4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings
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My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine
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3.55 avg rating — 1,926 ratings
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Gruau
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René Gruau (Artist)
4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Lillian Bassman: Lingerie
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Lillian Bassman (Photographer)
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score: 60,
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From the Ballets Russes to Vogue: The Art of Georges Lepape
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 59,
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Love, Cecil: A Journey with Cecil Beaton
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4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice
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4.03 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
score: 57,
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American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post
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Nancy Rubin Stuart (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 969 ratings
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Helena Rubenstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty
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Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944
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3.67 avg rating — 1,561 ratings
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The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire
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Francesca Cartier Brickell (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 2,416 ratings
score: 55,
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The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll
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Lyndsy Spence (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
score: 54,
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Ira: The Life and Times of a Princess
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American Goddess: Jean Patchett
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Once Upon a Diamond: A Family Tradition of Royal Jewels
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4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy
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4.29 avg rating — 3,195 ratings
score: 48,
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Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture
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3.74 avg rating — 1,643 ratings
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Glossy: The inside story of Vogue
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3.86 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
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3.22 avg rating — 2,097 ratings
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