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The Best Fashion Audiobooks on Audible for Aspiring Stylists, Hypebeasts and Everyone In Between
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The best audiobooks about fashion are right at your fingertips, thanks to Audible.
Whether you’re looking for a good celebrity memoir about your favorite fashion icon or you want to nerd-out on the ins and outs of the industry, Audible has it all — and the Amazon-owned audiobook platform is offering a great deal for new subscribers. Through Dec. 31, the first three months of the Premium Plus plan are only 99 cents per month. That’s a savings of over 90 percent on audio titles, podcasts and Audible originals.
Now that you’re in on the deal, take your pick from some of the best Audible audiobooks for fashion fans below — from power stylist Law Roach‘s inspiring self-help tome and books for hypebeasts from streetwear kings Dapper Dan and The Hundreds co-founder Bobby Kim, to Vogue EIC Anna Wintour‘s bestselling (and juicy) biography and more.
How to Build a Fashion Icon: Notes on Confidence from the World’s Only Image Architect
Law Roach’s #1 bestseller takes listeners behind the scenes of his process and journey, revealing the tips and tricks that have helped him become one of today’s most influential stylists. Known for crafting the signature looks for fashion icons Zendaya and Celine Dion, Law offers an intriguing must-listen that is part self-help guide and part manifesto.
Listening length: 5 hours and 15 minutes
Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules
The renowned costume designer behind Sex and the City and Emily in Paris reveals all in Pat in the City. This motivational memoir reveals how Patricia Field became the envelope-pushing style star she is today.
Listening length: 7 hours and 10 minutes
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
Bestselling journalist Dana Thomas takes readers on a journey in Fashionopolis. Listen in as she travels the globe to reveal fashion’s harmful habits while highlighting the progressive designers committed to the industry’s sustainable future.
Listening length: 9 hours and 12 minutes
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
This powerful memoir spotlights Dapper Dan’s historic takeover of high-end streetwear in the 1980s, when he was known for remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own innovative, unforgettable designs. For the first time ever, readers will hear everything there is to know about the visionary behind some of the most iconic looks worn by LL Cool J, Naomi Campbell, Jay-Z and more stars.
Listening length: 8 hours and 30 minutes
This Is Not a T-Shirt: A Brand, a Culture, a Community – a Life in Streetwear
The creative force behind cult-favorite lifestyle brand The Hundreds, Bobby Kim (aka Bobby Hundreds), presents This Is Not A T-Shirt — a powerful listen that reveals Bobby’s story and the story of streetwear culture as a whole.
Listening Length: 8 hours and 49 minutes
Betsey: A Memoir
Betsey Johnson’s long-awaited memoir features a peek behind the curtain of one of fashion’s most influential style stars. Listen as Betsey shares candid memories of the fashion and downtown scene in the 60s, how she started her own business and how she overcame a series of challenges.
Listening length: 6 hours and 39 minutes
Anna: The Biography
Amy Odell’s in-depth and revealing biography — read by Imogen Church — is based on extensive interviews with Anna Wintour’s closest friends and collaborators. This bestseller reveals the prolific Vogue editor-in-chief personal story while also shedding light on the complex dynamics of the fashion industry.
Listening length: 15 hours and 29 minutes
The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir
Narrated by the late and great André Leon Talley, The Chiffon Trenches is a raw memoir that reveals the fashion hero’s resilience in a notoriously cutthroat industry. Listen as André shares his unapologetically refreshing point of view on fashion’s key players and behaviors.
Listening length: 9 hours and 38 minutes