Product Description

A celebrity fashion designer gives every woman the red-carpet treatment in this foolproof guide to choosing clothes that make you look fabulous—with tailor-made tips for forty- eight body types.

From Oprah to Eva Longoria, top L.A. designer Bradley Bayou has dressed women of all shapes and sizes and knows that every woman has her own natural combination of silhouette shape, height, and weight. Style is not about fitting into the size you think is sexy, it is about picking clothes that fit your body correctly and that create balance.

In The Science of Sexy, Bayou helps readers identify their silhouette shape (triangle, inverted triangle, rectangle, or hourglass) and combines that information with a height/weight chart to determine which of the forty-eight “fitting rooms” to go to in the book. Each fitting room has Bradley’s specific advice on the clothes and accessories to wear and avoid, and how to create balance using color, scale, proportions, and fabric.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49248 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-27
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
“A man for all sizes: Red carpet razzle-dazzler thinks big—and little and in- between.”
—People

“[A] helpful new book. . . . a formula any woman can follow. . . . It’s almost as good as having your own personal Bradley.”
—InStyle

About the Author
Award-winning fashion designer Bradl ey Bayou caters to a celebrity clientele that includes Halle Berry, Oprah Winfrey, and Salma Hayek. Formerly a creative director for Halston, his designs have graced the covers of Harper’s Bazaar, Essence, and other magazines, and his media appearances have included Oprah, E!, Live with Regis and Kelly, and MTV’s House of Style.

Customer Reviews

KISS
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!!! I loved it! The Science of Sexy gives women the basics of body typing and style. There may not be a lot of pages for each body type but there is TONS of information in those pages along with little tricks on highlighting your best features and minimizing your worst.
His biggest point is to learn to love your body, whatever shape it is. If YOU can't love your body, how can anyone else? I wish more women knew these simple techniques. He's got the right attitude in helping women find the most flattering styles for their particular body, NOT what the fashion magazines tout as 'style' that only looks attractive a size 2, 5' 10" woman!!!

"Get Thee to Dressing Sexy!"
I know many viewers have marked this title down for having only a few pages relating to their body type. I did get this title from the library (which I had to wait to get because the library system doesn't have a lot of copies and it's a popular title). I thought this book was very valuable, especially since I'm a petite,full figured woman. There are so few books that address the many body types of full figure women. After reading this book I found out why some of my clothes made me look thinner and others made me look dumpy.
Still, I think this is a fashion book that will hold up to time. The book can be passed around among friends, sisters, moms and daughters; then it will get it's mileage. I may still buy it or ask for it for a gift. As I'm losing weight, I'll most likely need to refer to it again (since some things clothing advice changes for weight rather than body shape).

get out the wine!!!
being that you need to measure.. I recommend and got a few girlfriends together, had some wine and then we measured and learned.. we have completely different bodies but fit the same ID in this book, which lucky for us just expanded out closets, LOL...