Product Description

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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12307 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

Review
'We love you, Gok!' Look magazine 'Gok Wan should be made available to all women on the NHS.' Heat Magazine 'For anyone who's going through a style crisis, or just really wants a new look, it's the perfect place to start.' **** Heat magazine 'An inspiring gift' Woman & Home 'What marks Gok Wan out from the rest of the makeover mafia is that he genuinely seems to care about his case studies!Every home should have a Wan.' Metro 'Where better to find top tips and super-slimming advice than Gok Wan's guide? We love it!' Love It! Magazine 'Three months on, and I've never felt more confident. Working with Gok changed my life.' Susan Sharpe on 'How to Look Good Naked', best magazine 'A welcome antidote to those myths of perfection, this new series aims to debunk the fashion, beauty and advertising industries' lies' best magazine 'How To Look Naked is actually sweet, caring and sympathetic telly. Gok seems to care about the women he spends time with... He's all hugs and encouragement, gently prodding his subjects into seeing themselves as others see them.' London Lite

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

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 The All Saints, 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. He now turns his attention to styling the nation with the prime-time Channel 4 fashion series How to Look Good Naked.

Customer Reviews

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!!!

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.

Great on TV but the book?
Feel Fab at 50

As an Image professional I have always loved Gok since he jumped on to our TV screens a couple of years ago. He epitomises what we, as professionals, should be doing with our clients. I have continued to love his approach ever since. While the text in his book was sensible and uplifting, strangely enough, I found the choice of clothing incomprehensible for the most part. Instead of flattering his models, who are all gorgeous (and mostly voluptuous), they look uncomfortable and too tight with staining seams, incorrect fabric choices and so on. The Gok on TV would never make these fundamental errors and the upshot is that his girls look bigger than they really are. A conundrum!