True style transcends fashion. Style is innovation, creation, and inspiration--with a personal twist. But the ability to find such inspiration and blend it into a signature wardrobe is what sets real style makers apart. Elizabeth Walker has selected and juxtaposed more than 450 images, from 1865 to the present and from street fashion to haute couture. Divided into perennial themes--from accessories to menswear, prints to denim, and exotic influences to animal motifs--these photographs will guide readers to create their own unique look.

True style transcends fashion. Style is innovation, creation, and inspiration--with a personal twist. But the ability to find such inspiration and blend it into a signature wardrobe is what sets real style makers apart. Elizabeth Walker has selected and juxtaposed more than 450 images, from 1865 to the present and from street fashion to haute couture. Divided into perennial themes--from accessories to menswear, prints to denim, and exotic influences to animal motifs--these photographs will guide readers to create their own unique look.

Elizabeth Walker was art director and men's and women's fashion editor at Harpers & Oueen, contributed to the Saturday Telegraph, the Times, the Sunday Times,and the Weekend Financial Times, and was Executive Fashion and Beauty Editor for Marie Claire. Today she is a freelance fashion consultant and writer.