I love David Kibbe’s POWER OF STYLE book and you will too. 💫💖Last December, RuPaul made it his “Love Yourself” Book Club pick. Subtitled “A Guided Journey to Help You Find Your Authentic Style,” I’d be surprised at better choices for that. Loving yourself and finding the star within you is the whole intention behind writing or reading this book.
One of my 25 Books of Summer from Beauty News NYC Official, I’m inspired to move to the next phase of my life and looks with great ideas and tips in here.
I inherited good style sense from grandmothers and aunts- regulars of Carson Pirie Scott in our little Normal Rockwell downtown, Marshall Field’s on State Street in Chicago’s downtown they got up to as often as life let them, and the old faithful Salvation Army anywhere they spotted one (yes I’m still a fan).
The late great Andre Leon Talley outlined the exact kind of community of Black women and church people who made me curious about fashion and attentive to my own communicating in clothes in his A.LT. memoir and THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE doc.
So I know how to get the good stuff that lasts decades like these women passed down to me, with also the short shelf life wears like the unabashed $15 Kmart sundress that I graduated at near top of a University of Chicago class in.
This is a fun book if you’re like me and have had to figure it out for yourself, or even if you benefit from a stylist to see you like you can’t see yourself, so they may need a fresh take on dressing you. It’s a loving but somewhat delicate gift; be sure to clarify you aren’t necessarily telling a woman her style sucks if you give it. 😆
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David Kibbe’s POWER OF STYLE: A Guided Journey to Help You Discover Your Authentic Style from Harmony Rodale Convergent Books, January 2025
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