"How to Look Good Naked": Shop for Your Shape and Look Amazing!

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Editorial reviews

Heat Magazine
`For anyone who's going through a style crisis, or just wants a
new look, it's the perfect place to start.'

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Book Description
Shop for your shape and look amazing! Use your look, gorgeous girl.

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Synopsis
Gok Wan, star of Channel 4's How to Look Good Naked is here to make you look GORGEOUS, no matter what your size or body hang-ups. With 10 years of styling experience behind him, he has crafted an unmissable shop-for-your shape guide. Gok shows you how easy it is to look amazing every day whether you're pear-shaped, apple-shaped or flat as a pancake. A real-life 'fairy Gok mother', he inspires and empowers women to feel beautiful inside and out. From celebrating curves, to enhancing your assets, How To Look Good Naked offers the ultimate confidence boost for women of all ages and sizes. It's not about changing your shape with plastic surgery or dieting, it's about embracing what you have and enhancing every gorgeous bit of it! With Gok's help you can look and feel good with or without your clothes on!

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From the Author
Take a look at what you're wearing right now, and if your outfit doesn't
say, " I'm the most gorgeous creature who ever lived", keep reading.
The way you dress tells the whole world how you feel about your body. And
what you wear influences how good you feel about yourself. It's that
feeling you get when you put on your favourite pair of jeans - you just
know that cute ass of yours will turn heads.
this is the effect that everything in your wardrobe should have. You
deserve to feel fabulous all day, every day. And this, my sweet, is how I'm
going to help you.
Gok Wan

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About the Author
Fashion stylist Gok Wan has been in the industry for the best part of a
decade. The 31-year-old combines a passion and flair for fashion with his
early drama school foundations.

Gok studied at London's prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama, but
his love of fashion and beauty led him to follow a career firstly in hair
and makeup and then in fashion styling. Gok has styled celebrities Bryan
Ferry, Blondie and Erasure and has worked for some of the world's leading
photographers, including Arthur Elgort, Terry O'Neill and John Swannell.

Having dressed countless celebrities and fashion pages, he is now turning
his attention to the nation with the prime-time Channel 4 fashion series
How to Look Good Naked.

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2007-12-29 rating:
Sorry Gok, I like you, but
The book does not help. The same model poses for pear shape and hourglass??? (same for the other models)
Why not take Trinny and Susannah's approach and show exactly what kind of clothing each shape needs instead of showing us ball gowns? Why not use the women from the series?

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review by: date: 2007-07-12 rating:
Gok Wan: Making the world a better place for ladies everywhere!
I am not usually a fan of fashion and stylist programmes, but I tuned into Gok's every week. It hit just the right tone, about celebrating what real women look like and making the best of what you already had rather than needing to change.
This book has the same loveable and helpful tone as the show, and offers a supportive mantra to learn to love what you have and make the best of it. The only real confusing element is if you're not sure which of the body types describes you best, eg if you're top heavy but also uncomfortable about your belly.
Gok is offering a valuable service to all women uncomfortable with their shapes and this book offers helpful advice, aswell as feeling like a confidante to remind you that yes, you are beautiful. Of course, I'm biased because I met Gok at his book signing and am absolutely in love with the man, but I really do recommend this book as an encouragement to all women who want to learn how to be comfortable in their own skin just the way it is.

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review by: date: 2007-06-30 rating:
very helpful
Five stars because although the book is not perfect I applaud the kindness of the author. An interesting aspect is that Wan himself tells us that he was overweight. Quite obviously he is not now - yet this is emphatically not a diet book. What seems to have happened is that the author styled himself to feel better about himself and the weightloss followed in due course when he was happier about himself. This book is so brilliant because it starts with what's right about you rather than with what is wrong, working with your self-consciousness rather than totally disregarding it. All teenage girls should be given this book and the author should be given a knighthood. Read in conjunction with watching the TV show.

My only criticisms: perhaps the style is a little cloying; but I'll live with that since I know he is trying to put the reader at their ease. Also sometimes it's hard to know exactly what shape you are: e.g. am I a pear shape, a bird with a big bum or petite? Maybe some comparative measurements would be useful. Worst thing would be to accidentally go for the wrong shape. Really I'm a combination of all three so how to work with that? There is some limited advice but more would be good.

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review by: date: 2007-06-17 rating:
You don't have to loose weight or be rich to look great!
The best thing about this book is its overall message: you do not necessarily have to loose weight or be rich to look your very best on a day-to-day basis! Gok's approach is 'drink more water, eat more fruit&veg and take good care of yourself'- no diet fads or expensive plastic surgery (see '10 years younger'!) needed. The book focuses on different types of body shape (big bottom, big belly, no curves, too skinny etc.) and provides LOTS of helpful advice as to what to wear and (probably even more important) what not. The last chapters focus on underwear and general beauty routine. All of this is very helpful and the writing style is very similar to the tv show, very positive and encouraging, all about flaunting your best bits and keeping quiet about the rest. I can honestly say that I have never read such a positive book about this subject: Gok does not preach or patronize, but seems to really want to bring the best out in everybody.
The only shortcoming is a lack of photographs. It would have been nice to have more pictures accompanying the advice given in the text. But apart from that: absolutely recommendable!!!


review by: Jewells date: 2007-06-01 rating:
Very good but not enough pictures
I love his programme and couldn't wait for the book but I was disappointed that there weren't more pictures to show you what clothes to wear rather than just describing them however it was still nice to read as Gok is so passionate.

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