CONSIDER bagging a book
for that fashionable friend or
stylish sibling this festive sea-

+ son.

Some sugges-
tions:

For “tweens and
teens, the pocket-size
hard-cover Nails
{Raincoast, $8.95)
makes a great stack-
ing-stufter.

Two dozen full-
colour photos of nail
art, trom leopard
print to flower
motifs, will give the
young. fashion artiste some ideas to
play with (hey, it’s better than a tat-
too, right?), Also included are tips on
grooming and helpful information
like where to find nail-art stencils,
decals and transfers (try an esthetician
ora gift shop, the book suggests).

Package it with a couple of bortles
of glitter polish, a handful of emery
boards and a tube
of hand cream for
a fashionably fim
gift.

Meg Cohen
Ragas and
Karen.

Kozlowski’s
Read My Lips
(Chronicle,
$22.95) is
billed as a cul-
tural history of
lipstick.

Loaded
with lipstick
lore, this 120-
page hard-
cover dishes
some colourtul
facts about the cosmetic’s
history.

Did vou know, for instance, that
anti-sunburn lipstick was first worn
on the battlefield during the Second
World War? Or that repressed
Victorians got their colour kisses
from rose-coloured crepe paper?

The book explores the lipstick’s
place in art, literature and pop cul-
ture, touches on the psychology of
painted fips and serves up some
memorable Hollywood moments.

Candace Savage profiles the glit-
tering glamour world of the beauty
pageant in Beauty Queens: A Playful
History (Greystone, $24.95).

From beachwear competitions in
the 1920s to modern-day Miss
Universe telecasts, Savage traces the
pageant’s evolution from oddball
custom to cultural institution.

There’s plenty of pictures to
punctuate Savage’s witty prose.

Diana: Her Life in Fashion
(Raincoast, $45) traces the evolution
of the late princess’ style “trom the
experimental to the absolutely self-
assured.”

This lavishly illustrated hard-cover

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Reading in style for the holidays

students and working designers will
tnd anonvatuable resource m
Madeleine Vionuet (Chronic,
S129).

Author Betty Kirke, a costume
restorer atthe Metropolitan Museum
ot Arts costume institute and teacher
ait New York's Fashion Institute of
‘Technology poured two decades of
research into this beautiful cottee
table book about one of the world’s
greatest dressmakers.

Thirty-eight patterns trom

the book, cach fogusing en one or
more of her techniques. Over 400
photographs and dlustrations explore
the work of the “queen of the bras
cut”

AH vou wanted to know about
looking yood is neatly contamed in
Hair and Make-up (Whitccap,
$24.95).

Brit beauty writer Jane Campsic
has compiled this detinitive guide to
beauty, with easy-to toilow instruc:
tions and expert advice on how to

Roots development trom counter
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outfitter of the Canadian Ob spi.
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ICsa fscinating read: how me
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tional image ef Canada, trom cold to
hot.

American sportsucar designer
Tommy Hilfiger has lent his name to
2 fin and fascinating book, Ad
American (Universe, $46.99) is lev
about the designer himself chan it is

Young fashion fans
ona first-name basis
with their favourite
madel — Naomi,
Rate. Christy: — will
covet Ramway
Madness (Raincoast, $37.95; bv
Robin Givhan.

Photographer Lucian Perkins sits
the reader in tront row centre for
this voyeuristic romp through New
York Fashion Week's twice yearly
shows, Perkins gets up close and
personal with models, desiuners and
editors. One hundred photos tell
the behind-the-scenes story. Quotes

trom fashion insiders provide a
running commentary.
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With co-aurbor David AL Keeps,
Hilfiger offers anecdotes and histori-
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sportswear staples as the golf shirt,
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Team Spirit: A Field
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Canadian clothing
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