Pretend to Be Fancy: A Field Guide to Style and Sophistication by Whitney Marston Pierce.
A cheeky, fun-to-read guide to living your best life filled with easy tips for curating a stylish, cultured and fabulous existence on any budget. You’ll read about other nice things you can have.
The Cultures of Perfume: Scents that Shaped History by Saskia Wilson-Brown.
This illustrated field guide to 36 distinct scent notes tells the story of smell and humanity’s fascination with perfume through anecdotes, historical research and folk knowledge. With a smart and politically savvy style, author Saskia Wilson-Brown argues for scent as an art on par with all other forms of art, and demonstrates how its appreciation and creation can be enjoyed by everyone.
Bolo: Design, Style, Heritage by William Matthews, Foreword by Lyle Lovett
A celebration of a unique American art form, this volume showcases more than 500 bolo pieces, many of which have never before been published, alongside photographs of cultural icons wearing them.
easy tips for curating a stylish, cultured and fabulous existence on any budget.