how not to look stoopid
Today's
Wall Street Journal has a column
titled "How To Walk Like A Model." Writer Vanessa O'Connell interviews
Jessica Stam, "one of fashion's most-sought models." Ms. Stam is also known as the model who
tripped and fell on the runway at the Chloé Fall 2006 show in Paris. Wow. How
did she deal? "I fell and got back up," she says. "I kept walking." Gasp! Absolutely ground-breaking. Earth-shattering, even. She
got back up. We never would have thought of that. Thank God for Jessica Stam, and for the Wall Street Journal, for reporting such life-changing information. And for being an
expert. On walking. But Stam isn't the only one who wants to tell us what to do: The style advice book industry is booming,
according to another column in the
Journal.
Charla Krupp's
How Not To Look Old is the top-selling fashion and beauty book on Amazon right now. Paige Adams-Geller of Paige Premium Denim has just written a book called
Your Perfect Fit. In stylist Sherrie Mathieson's book,
Forever Cool, makeovers of real people show "how to achieve ageless, youthful and modern personal style." And there's more.
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