What Not To Wear (Paperback) [Paperback]

What Not to Wear is based on Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine's BBC television programme of the same name. The show has given a whole new meaning to the phrase "fashion victim": each week a member of the public (kindly nominated by their "friends") is done up (or, perhaps more accurately, done over) by Trinny and Susannah--a couple of Sloane-style gurus who are spikier than a pair of Manolo Blahnik stilettos. The pair mercilessly ridicule each poor specimen's dress sense until, browbeaten into submission, the unfortunate victim is forced to see the error of their sartorial ways. Ready to accept the experts' advice, the subject is then given £2000 for a wardrobe refurbishment. Infuriatingly, the diabolical duo is usually right and an astonishing number of ugly ducklings are duly transformed into swans.

Nowhere near as much fun as watching the girls at work but infinitely preferable to acquiring their advice first hand, this book provides an invaluable guide to avoiding fashion faux pas. Separated into chapters themed by body shape--"big tits", "flabby tummy", "short legs" and so on--it provides step by step instructions on how to choose flattering, fashionable cuts and colours. "Looking stylish", they unsurprisingly declare, "is as much about knowing what not to wear as it is about knowing what suits you." With lists of golden rules and an index of boutiques, this volume, surely one of this season's essential purchases, will have you hot to trot in no time at all. --Travis Elborough --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The great news is that the paperback of WHAT NOT TO WEAR is at no. 4 in the SUNDAY TIMES manuals bestseller chart. Susannah and Trinny took time out of their hectic filming schedule for a 4-page celebrity interview in SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE - 'Out to Lunch' with Brian Viner. The interview is currently featured in the August edition of SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE, on sale July. For more newson publicity please refer to the WHAT NOT TO WEAR PART TWO bulletin.

'Trinny and Susannah can be breathtakingly irritating but also happen to have extremely good taste.' - Elizabeth Hurley 'Shopping with the girls is like running a marathon, and it's fun too.' - Lulu 'I'd rather eat my own hair than shop with these two again.' - Jeremy Clarkson Susannah and Trinny's straight-talking fashion advice has made them Britain's best-known style duo. In their third BBC2 series screened this autumn, more unsuspecting style casualties will be made-over. The sartorial sisters show how to develop personal style, whilst making the most of your body shape, hiding your defects and flaunting those assets! Susannah and Trinny are not about fashion; they are about personal style - dressing for your body shape and personality - and this book shows you how.

Susannah & Trinny's first television series was screened on BBC2 between November 2001 and January 2002, and was such a success that two further series were commissioned. They also write for HEAT magazine, in which they have a weekly column about celebrities and their attire. Trinny & Susannah's eighth primetime television series will be shown on ITV in the autumn. They write for Heat magazine and the Sun. They are Britain's best known style experts, called upon to adjudicate on all matters sartorial.