Written by Elle Macpherson’s personal trainer, this is the only diet book guaranteed to give you the beach-beautiful body you’ve always wanted. Simple and effective, with no calorie counting or complicated rules, it shows you first how to get Clean by following a flexible 14-day meal plan endorsed by nutritionist Alice Sykes, PhD R.Nutr, and then how to get Lean by honing your body with maximum impact exercises. Includes delicious, quick and easy recipes, tips on avoiding the cravings that can lead you off track, advice on avoiding the toxic foods and drinks that prevent you losing weight, plus a maintenance plan for keeping the pounds off. Illustrated throughout with recipe and step-by-step exercise photography, it demonstrates that, like James Duigan’s celebrity clients Rosie Huntingdon-Whitely and Hugh Grant, you too can be Clean & Lean for life. Visit Amazon.com to purchase the Clean & Lean Diet Book now.

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Leafing through a wealth of private photo albums and personal archives, Lee Radziwill offers a unique perspective of happy times: from the first trip to Europe and the Bouvier sisters to fond memories of Christmas in Palm Beach with President Kennedy, from her years in London to summer days in Conca, Lee Radziwill has enjoyed a very colorful and successful life. She brings alive, with humor and feeling, privileged moments with family and friends. Happy Times is the credo of a lady who, having witnessed historical moments and shared the lives of characters struck by fate, has made the deliberate choice of only remembering what’s beautiful. Through anecdotes and pictures, personal notes and drawings, Happy Times offers readers a very personal perspective on a highly publicized life. Visit Amazon.com to purchase Happy Times now.

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Forget The Official Preppy Handbook and The Sloane Ranger Handbook, if your going to brush up on how to be effortlessly snobish and chic do it the French way with Thierry Mantoux’s BCBG – Le Guide du bon chic bon genre. Of course it only comes in French and is out of print but you can find used editions for sale on Amazon.com (Click HERE!).

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Did Lindbergh really fly over, en route to Paris, while Diana Vreeland was sitting in the sun – with “my darling bambino” and her husband’s Godfather-ly bootlegger? Did the “Golden Prince” of Wales really tell his father, years before he met Wallis Simpson, “that never, under any circumstances, would he succeed him”? Does it actually matter – “a lie, to make life more interesting. . . ?” Vreeland, as multitudes know, is America’s grand impresario of fashion: guiding spirit of the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, ex-editor of Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. Here, she is equally a raconteur of the outre, a social barometer aware that “outre” is passe, a casual aphorist. Life began for Diana in Paris (c. 1906) – “a world where beauties had something to give the world,” where “everything was new” and clothes mattered. Within view, Diaghilev (a family caller) swept away the Edwardian era. Back in America, Diana adored horses, hated school, “discovered dancing [and] learned to dream.” At 18, not beautiful but soignee (hints of the ugly-duckling-who-wouldn’t-be), she fell-in-love-at-first-sight with banker Reed Vreeland: “older” at 25, “an achievement,” and forever glamorous. (“I can remember always pulling myself up, thinking, ‘I must be at my very best.’ “) The self-portrayal – though spotty, discontinuous – has veracity, coherence. And extension: “Before I started working. . . I was like a Japanese wife.” She relates her fondness, as a newly-wed, for Albany (“a pretty little Dutch town”); her voracious reading – self-education – as an idle young London wife; the trips with Reed to “exotic” Hungary, Morocco. She opens a lingerie shop in a London mews (where, supposedly, Mrs. Simpson orders her Belvedere-tryst nightgowns); back in America again, Harper’s Bazaar’s Carmel Snow spots her dancing at the St. Regis; she succeeds Snow, then eventually shifts (Hearst penury) to Vogue; lastly, she’s in Russia and Hungary, scouting for the great Costume Institute shows. All in ripples of fashion-and-society talk – Balenciaga’s “sense of color” to Jackie’s Inaugural sable muff – and Society tattle/confabulation. Only occasionally campy: overall, a singular, immensely seductive combination of Baron Munchhausen and Roland Barthes. Visit Amazon.com to purchase a copy of D.V. now .

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This is the second portfolio Karl Lagerfeld has done for Stern Fotografie portfolio, and this time he focuses on one of his longtime muses supermodel Claudia Schiffer. It’s been 20 years since M. Karl first photographed this tall blonde and recently they have been collaborating more regularly, including work with German Vogue and an advertising campaign for Chanel. This issue is available with six different covers and is published by TeNeues. Available for purchase from Colette.fr.

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Aarons’ 1974 publication is a cult book featuring a collection of the photographers glittering image of the rich and famous in the golden age of glamour. A survey of all things beautiful and aristocratic spanning from the 1950s to the 1970s, A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life includes portraits of everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Noel Coward and scenes of prep school children trekking through the Vermont wilderness to Katharine Hepburn driving along the waterfront in Montego Bay, Jamaica. (The book was also used by the architectural historian and professor of American art history at Wellesley Alice T. Freedman in part of her analysis of the link between architecture and glamour in her new book American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture.) Visit Amazon.com to purchase a used copy A Wonderful Time.

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Long before celebrity stylists became as renowned as the Oscar-winning film stars they advise, the legendary costume designer Edith Head was dressing Hollywood’s most fashionable women and men on screen and off—and lending her sartorial wisdom to women across the country on radio and television. In 1959, she published a best-selling memoir and style guide, The Dress Doctor, in which she shared tips on style and dozens of entertaining anecdotes on Hollywood’s A-list with her fans. Now, The Dress Doctor has returned in this special edition of the original volume, an alphabetical romp through the art of getting dressed and dressing Hollywood, with specially commissioned illustrations and the best advice and stories culled word for word from the original book.

From Audrey Hepburn to Zooture, The Dress Doctor is filled with Head’s timeless tips: her expertise on developing a personal style, dressing to flatter one’s figure, building a wardrobe, and judging quality. Her prescriptions for dressing properly for various activities from archery to house cleaning to roller skating are a charming mix of perennially chic and, now, with the passing of time, tongue in chic. Fashion illustrator Bil Donovan’s stunning re-creations of Head’s most famous gowns, along with illustrations of myriad other stylish ensembles, bring the designer’s work vividly to life again, along with Hollywood icons Grace Kelly, Katharine Hepburn, Mae West, Cary Grant, and many others. Visit Amazon.com to purchase.

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In and Out of Vogue is Grace Mirabella, who was editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine for 17 years and later founded Mirabella magazine when fired so Anna Wintour could take the reins of the publication, memior about her 38 years working in the fashion industry. The daughter of Italian immigrants who was raised in Newark, New Jersey, Mirabella went on to attend one of the best women’s colleges in America and worked her way to the top of the magazine’s masthead. Mirabella discribes the working atmosphere of the fashion bible and of an era when girls with the right pedigree were sent to work at Vogue for finishing. Available from Amazon.com.

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La panthère : Le fabuleux roman de Jeanne Toussaint, joaillière des rois by Stéphanie Des Horts is a book published earlier this year by Jean-Claude Lattè that chronicles the history of one of Cartier’s most iconic symbols, the panther. The elegant motif first appeared on the face of a wristwatch in 1914 and was later put into frequent use by Jeanne Toussaint, who was director of the label’s accessories from 1918 and head of jewellery from 1933. The panther’s trendiness went down in history as it became a favorite of style icons such as the Duchess of Windsor, heiress Barbara Hutton and the Aga Khan. Stéphanie Des Horts’ book is available (in French only!) from Amazon.co.uk.

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First edition, first printing of a set of seven magazines conceptualised by noted street fashion photographer Bruce Gilden. Signed in black ink on the cover of Volume 1 by Gilden. The magazines are soft cover with each with volume in photographically illustrated wrappers, no dust jackets as issued; contained in a clear plastic envelope with title printed on a sticker affixed to the front. Photographed and edited Bruce Gilden, Art Direction by Nicolas Guiraud, and Designed by Christophe Renard.

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