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Summary: Sensational book on style!
Review: I am hard to impress, but this book is something outstanding. No doubt it is a must-have for every young woman! It also makes a wonderful gift : apart from being a wealth of info on shopping with style, looking your best all year round, feeling stress-free and confident, this book is very colorful with great illustrations and printed on top-quality paper. Fekkai's style of writing is very appealing and heart-warming. You feel that he knows and loves all the women, that's why this book is not a primitive write-up about "do's and dont's", but a wonderful journey into the world of simple French chic and elegance, a real feast for the soul.
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Summary: Too heavy on hair
Review: I am somewhat disappointed that this book is very slight on the topic of "clothes style". I was expecting to see more of wardrobe planning, but obviously, I was wrong. Viwers, be ware, Fekkai is a hair-stylist, and half the book is on hair. Although even the hair info given isn't shocking or new in any way. I would also add that what advice he gives on makeup is very personal to his own opinion (he did warn us at the beginning though) and if I was asked, I'd say his opinions are too general. It's just too bad. The daily calendar that the reviewers here seem to love, may be helpful - but it's mega random. Some days, it tells you to sign up for a yoga class, on other days, it's just a quote to fill in the space, and every other odd days, you are recommended to buy a bunch of lilies because that's how to live chic-ly according to Fekkai. And his take on the provencal women he admired when he was younger, and how the well dressed and stylish people spend a lot of time in nature - Fekkai, are you so sure?! But can you be more real - although nature is a good precription for our unhealthy lives, what is wrong with just being in the city. And then, there's this bit about your thoughts on New York City. I wish I had bought a different book - that ACTUALLY talks about style in the fashion sense. This is a good coffee table book as someone suggested, but why don't you get a blank daily calendar and make your own stuff - May 17th, get your clothes altered. Sorry Fekkai, it just didn't work for me at all. The photos are nice, but they aren't work of art either. For those more interested in clothes like moi, be warned, and do stick to other books. Indee, I wish I had.
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Summary: do we agree to disagree?
Review: I find it hard to believe that we are reviewing the same book! As I perused the pages, its overwhelming message was buy, buy, buy--this product or some other product, to enhance your life. Buying, to my mind, is not simplifying or beautifying one's life, even if the acquisition fits Mr. Fekkai's personal definition of style. Young people, especially, have perhaps gotten the message and seem to think that living well on the earth is a function of consumerism. Just wanted to add this thought: it's more than that.
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Summary: Very enjoyable
Review: I find this book to be very relaxing and enjoyable to read. Although, a bit on the pricey side, many of the ideas are worth thinking about. Overall, I am really enjoying this book and glad I bouth it!
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Summary: Casual Chic - Goes Glam!
Review: I have owned this book for over a year and I still love it. I have to review it ever so often because there is so much information that I need a refresher. Frederic Fekkai is such a wonderful stylist/artist that sometimes, I just review the book to look at the beautiful photographs! The information contained in the book has helped me define my style much better, to create my own casual chic style. I believe the book contains information that will help anyone who is interested in developing a style that is casual, but sophisticated and can be completed with ease. There are more makeup, hair and fashion tips than most magazines contain in a year! The lifestyle suggestions are also helpful and contain maintenance timetables that encourage you to try spa treatments and shopping tips. I would love to travel to New York or Beverly Hills and get a new hairstyle by Frederic, himself, but in the alternative this book will suffice!!
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Summary: Effortless beauty, loveliness, and style of the French!
Review: I LOVE FRENCH! The title of Frederic Fekkai's "Year of Style" doesn't do justice to this reservoire of natural and inner beauty secrets. His basic message is "Simplify things." Then he fills the books with incredible make-overs and adjustments that allow you to spend less time in front of the mirror, but more time feeling classy, creative, confident, and chic. Have you ever wandered down the bath and beauty aisle and wondered, "Does this stuff really work or is it just more merchandizing to make us "feel good" about ourselves?" Frederic guides you to the basic beauty aids and accessories ESSENTIAL for real loveliness, beauty and style. For me the discovery of Shea butter soaps and shampoos, hand cut combs, apple cider vinegar and cold water hair rinses, natural application of makeup, and through the year guidelines on effortless chic make this book an invaluable beauty and health guide. It's through-the-year monthly format makes the contents fun and easy to read and remember. My sister now uses this as the textbook for the Personal Etiquette courses in teaching high school home economics classes.
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Summary: A classic!
Review: I love this book and know it will give me pleasure for years to come. The pictures are exquisite and backed up with a simple, well stated text. Frederic shares his ideas on how you can derive more pleasure from life month by month. Each month he entreats you to embrace the days by taking advantage of what the season has to offer.
One month you may make a special refreshing drink. Another month tidy your closet. Yet another month focus on your hair. He encourages simplicity, paring down your wardrobe. Pitching all your lotions and potions and achieve your best look with an easy, daily routine. Inviting the best and forgetting the rest! And he does it well. The book is charming and fun with new ideas to attain a fresh look and punctuated with thoughts on how to enjoy the process! It's well worth the high price tag.
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Summary: A Year of Style - My Bible
Review: I loved this book. The pictures even more than the text. And I find it hilarious to actually try to do what he suggests everyday. I'm still stuck back on the one about painting your closet. And in summer apparently I'm supposed to climb a mountain and go to Paris (but only for a day). But where I want to know can I find those wonderful provencal colored straw bags? I've scoured Chicago for them. I love this book and read it more often than any book I own. I'm still puzzling about being admonished not to speak French in public when the models are clearly looking at French magazines. And do you notice he tells you to wear velvet at Christmas but unless I'm mistaken there's no velvet or scotch plaid to be seen in any of the pictures. And I take those pictures very seriously. Still life is full of contradictions and so are all good teachers.
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Summary: Please learn to do arithmatic
Review: I recieved this book recently and read it from cover to cover. Although the writer did give some good advice on makeup and style but he wrote for not the general public but the women in million dollar club. I wonder if he bother to do the arithmatic of his advices and calculated that an ordinary woman with children can afford frequent spa treatments, weekly manicures and blowdrys at expensive salons plus frequent mini gateaway to tropics or south of France. I find some time this lack of consideration on author's part annoying at times. Scot Fitzgerald when stated that the rich are different from you and me, he was merely stating the facts but when a book was written for general public than it should be geared towards them. I did bought the soaps you mention in your book and they are splendid.
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Summary: I'm only at May, and...
Review: I've already taken some simple steps, (as suggested in this book) to change my look and lifestyle. Fredric Fekkai's simple and very happy recommendations are the perfect cure for the February blues. I love this book and would recommend it to anyone who is trying to make a few changes in their look and life without shocking everybody who has ever known them. It also doesn't hurt to double check the cues and details that make a woman stylish and chic as opposed to overdone, or more commonly not done at all. I was also not completely sure about how to make the perfect latte, and now I am. If you've tried it all, and you're looking for something really fresh, the tips and theories in this book would probably suit you just fine. Also, if you are reaching the magical age of forty, (as I am), you no doubt have recognized that the things you wore, you hair and makeup may need to evolve. This is the book that will show you how to do fo it gracefully.
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