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Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton
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The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
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Alicia Drake (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
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D.V.
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The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them, 1970-1980
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Hugo Vickers (Editor)
3.81 avg rating — 101 ratings
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War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden, Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired
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Francine Prose (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 903 ratings
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Marlene Dietrich
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The Wedding Dress
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3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsey Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh - The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters
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The Swans of Fifth Avenue
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Melanie Benjamin (Goodreads Author)
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Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant
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When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends
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Café Society: Socialites, Patrons, and Artists 1920-1960
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Wait for Me!
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Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars
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The Glitter and the Gold
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Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
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3.29 avg rating — 2,774 ratings
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Searching for Beauty: The Life of Millicent Rogers, the American Heiress Who Taught the World About Style
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Cherie Burns (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles
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The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story
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A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York
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3.88 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Galliano
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The Way We Lived Then : Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper
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3.93 avg rating — 546 ratings
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The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life
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Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England
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3.68 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Fifth Avenue Style: A Designer's New York Apartment
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4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Grace
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3.81 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
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3.73 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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The World According to Karl
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3.97 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Swans, Legends of the Jet Society
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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My Dolce Vita: A Memoir
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
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3.64 avg rating — 20,639 ratings
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Conversations With Joan Crawford
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4.29 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth
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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
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4.37 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Cecil Beaton: Portraits and Profiles
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4.30 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
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3.91 avg rating — 1,709 ratings
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Christian Louboutin
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4.35 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Gilded New York: Design, Fashion, and Society
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4.22 avg rating — 41 ratings
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In the Kennedy Style
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A Lady, First: My Life in the Kennedy White House and the American Embassies of Paris and Rome
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3.97 avg rating — 246 ratings
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George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits 1925-1992
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4.55 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Marchesa Casati: Portraits of a Muse
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4.37 avg rating — 73 ratings
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I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
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3.63 avg rating — 4,169 ratings
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100 Years of Fashion Illustration
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4.20 avg rating — 1,020 ratings
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Bare Blass
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3.27 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Madame: An Intimate Biography of Helena Rubinstein
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3.85 avg rating — 40 ratings
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A Royal Duty
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3.86 avg rating — 3,026 ratings
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Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce
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3.85 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Enchantress: Marthe Bibesco and Her World
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4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs
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3.70 avg rating — 2,015 ratings
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The Barbizon: The New York Hotel That Set Women Free
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3.67 avg rating — 6,698 ratings
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Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners
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Laura Claridge (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 592 ratings
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A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow and Her Life In Fashion, Art, and Letters
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Penelope Rowlands (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
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3.81 avg rating — 62,577 ratings
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The Fortune Hunters: Dazzling Women and the Men They Married
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3.47 avg rating — 144 ratings
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HAPPY TIMES
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3.82 avg rating — 188 ratings
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A Privileged Life: Celebrating Wasp Style
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3.65 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Fashionable Selby
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4.28 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
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Laurence Leamer (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 12,093 ratings
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Like Fine Wine: A Head-to-Toe Youth Restoring Makeover for Ladies Over Forty
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Julia Black (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
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The Ossie Clark Diaries : In Doze Days
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The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj
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Corsets and Codpieces: A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era
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Rouge
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Richard Kirshenbaum (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 339 ratings
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The Chiffon Trenches
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Wildchilds
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Eugenia Melian (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Peter Schlesinger A Chequered Past My Visual Diary /anglais
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The Atlas of Beauty: Women of the World in 500 Portraits
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4.64 avg rating — 2,016 ratings
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Answered Prayers
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The Orchid Thief
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Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 21,637 ratings
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The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty
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Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor
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Vivienne Westwood
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History of Beauty
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Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Royal Style: A History of Aristocratic Fashion Icons
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3.56 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Celia Birtwell
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Survival of the Richest: How the Corruption of the Marketplace and the Disparity of Wealth Created the Greatest Conspiracy of All
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Donald Jeffries (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Vogue Weddings: Brides, Dresses, Designers
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Hamish Bowles (Editor)
4.03 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Formula For Fortune: How Asa Candler Discovered Coca-Cola And Turned It Into The Wealth His Children Enjoyed
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Vintage Weddings: One Hundred Years of Bridal Fashion and Style (Vintage Fashion Series)
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4.04 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
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3.82 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry
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Beautiful People of the Café Society: Scrapbooks by the Baron de Cabrol
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Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes our World
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The Wedding Dress: 300 Years of Bridal Fashions
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3.93 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Hollywood Beach Beauties: Sea Sirens, Sun Goddesses, and Summer Style 1930-1970
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The Wedding Dress: The 50 Designs that Changed the Course of Bridal Fashion
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A Dress for Diana
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Sheila: The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society
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The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya
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Jet Set: The People, the Planes, the Glamour, and the Romance in Aviation's Glory Years
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3.16 avg rating — 259 ratings
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The Perfume Collector
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Kathleen Tessaro (Goodreads Author)
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Dior by Dior
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Bad Bet : The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America's Gambling Industry
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Timothy L. O'Brien (Goodreads Author)
3.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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White Collar Girl
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Renée Rosen (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 3,057 ratings
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