Things a Woman Should Know About Style
Karen Homer
... makes sure you never have to commit another fashion faux-pas

A Year of Style
Frederic Fekkai, Tara Sgroi
... a month-by-month guide to style through simplicity....If you know how to be simple - with your hair, your make-up, your clothes, your lifestyle - you can do anything you want, and never go wrong

Chic Simple: Women's Wardrobe
Rachel Urquhart
... advice on how to achieve the perfectly co-ordinated wardrobe, with hints and advice from designers and fashion experts.

Corsets and Crinolines
Norah Waugh
... a reference not to be passed up. It is absolutely filled with photographs, illustrations, scale drawings of patterns, and quotes from historical sources. A great read, and a valuable reference

Imperfect Beauty: the Making of Contemporary Fashion Photographs
Charlotte Cotton
... a truly beautiful, painstakingly-researched book on the production of contemporary fashion photography. The images are gorgeously reproduced and the design is really elegant. The interviews with each practitioner (not just photographers, but stylists, make-up artists, designers and art directors too) are often quite revealing