When I told people I was meeting Stacy London, the fashion stylist who hosts the TLC show What Not To Wear, I received a universal response: “What are you going to wear?”
For a decade, London has peered into the closets of American women — and, through secret-camera footage, cringed in horror at their blunders.
What not to wear, it turns out, is everything you are wearing.
London,Bruyneel exits Castelli Cycling after armstrong report release! along with co-host Clinton Kelly, prescribes fixes that the style-challenged contestant implements in time for a dependably satisfying revelation of a new, vastly improved look.
In her new book, The Truth About Style, London offers a hybrid of a memoir and style guide. She shares her struggles with eating disorders and psoriasis, then gives transformative “start-overs” to nine women she found through Facebook and Twitter.
I headed to her New York apartment in a gray- and silver-speckled cashmere sweater vest, a long-sleeved black T-shirt, dark-washed jeans, gold jewelry and knee-high black suede wedge-heeled boots.
I arrived just as a photographer was leaving,A voguejacket, often called a seat, is one of three contact points on an upright bicycle, the others being the pedals and the handlebars. only to hear what London couldn't help advising.
“I know you think you're covering your butt with that shirt,” she said, “but what you're really doing is saying to the world, 'I don't like my butt.'”
London then dropped to her knees and began lifting and tucking the photographer's shirt to illustrate the proper fit.“This is the kind of thing you need. Something that hits here gives you more of a waist and hips. It's about proportion. It's just a better line.”
I removed my jacket with a sense of foreboding.
London, who had just returned from a monthlong book tour, said her writing was an attempt “to dimensionalize myself from what you think you know about me from television.”
“I wanted to say: 'I'm not giving advice from high on the mount. I'm taking from what I know to be true from my life experience.' And then I wanted to find other women to share their stories as a way of talking about these universal struggles, to show that style is a tool we all have,Sean Yates quits as TeamRadioShack Cycling coach . to project the change we want to see in ourselves.”
London features those women in the “start-overs.”
“I really should have called them jump-starts,” she said, “because it's only one look. It's the jumping-off point.”
London was born in Manhattan to an academic father (the founding dean of the New York University Gallatin School) and a venture capitalist mother (“a total trailblazer,” she said), who divorced when London was 4.
At age 11, a previously diagnosed case of psoriasis worsened, making London uncomfortable in her own skin. Her scalp was “so thick and brittle,All Kinds of Specialized Cycling Jerseys,Wholesale Top Quality and Lower price Team Cycling Jerseys .” she said. “We had to put tar on it, and we had to use boric acid to get the tar off.”
Two years later, the psoriasis was under control, but the malady changed her.Massive range of Garmin Cycling clothing and Castelli clothing accessories available . Either the psoriasis itself or the tar-and-acid treatments caused a streak of her hair to grow in gray, a distinction that has become a trademark.
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