Fashion is My Muse

Cover of Astor Place Vintage Paperback Within a few pages of beginning to read the novel  Astor Place Vintage , I was captivated and una...

Being born, starting school, getting a job, falling in love, getting married, having children, having a midlife crisis, retiring -- these...

  There are many, many books on the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe - so many in fact that there are multiple pages of listings o...

In 1669, New France referred to a part of Canada now known as Quebec. This densely forested land was cruel to its first inhabitants, who...

Ballet dancers are a class of athletes unto themselves. The discipline, sacrifice and passion required to have a career as a ballet dance...

Curator, historian and author Lucy Worsley knows how to make history accessible, interesting and entertaining. In her latest book If Wall...

Lisa See is the author of one of my favourite fiction books - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - which was recently adapted into a film. I...

It was a lazy summer weekend. The weather in Toronto was glorious, with brilliant sunshine and deliciously warm temps. I gave myself a va...

Although most of us probably think that sweatshops no longer exist, every cheap piece of clothing that we buy probably came from one. It ...

The cover of this book with the ghostly x-ray image of a slashed satin bodice from 1630 is but a hint of the extraordinary contents withi...

This is one of the books I packed on my recent trip to Paris. When I travel overseas, I seem to want to sleep when I should be awake and am...

Given that I've spent many, many hours in figure drawing classes, it might seem odd that I am even reading a book called Drawing Lab for...

The New York Times proclaimed Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Homans to be one of the ten best books of 2010 and some have described it a...

There are some authors who can take complex ideas and create new depths of understanding with their analysis. And when they can do that whil...

Isabella Blow, one of the fashion world's brightest lights, committed suicide in May 2007. It has been said that her untimely death wei...

If you have a a deep and abiding love of costume history and are able to find this book on the shelves of a library or in a book bin somewh...